List of Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples. Series
Foreword.
Prologue: The Journey Begins.
Part I: Magical Melodies 1. Song
and the Transition to "Part-Talkie" Japanese Role-Playing Games.
2. "The Things I Do for Lust ...": Humor and
Subversion in The Bard's Tale. 3.
Mother/EarthBound Zero and the Power of the Naive
Aesthetic: No Crying Until the Ending.Part II: Mystical
Metaphors 4. Alien Waves: Sonic
Reverberations of the RPG Interface in Lagrange Point.
5. The Penultimate Fantasy: Nobuo Uematsu's Score
for Cleopatra no Ma Takara. 6. Music in
the Time of Video Games: Spelunking Final Fantasy IV.
7. Operatic Conventions and Expectations in
Final Fantasy VI. Part III: Meaningful
Memories 8. Ludomusical Dissonance in
Diablo III. 9. A Hidden Harmony: Music
Theory Pedagogy and Role-Playing Games. 10.
Soundwalking and the Aurality of Stardew Valley: An
Ethnography of Listening to and Interacting with Environmental Game
Audio. 11. Musical Landscapes in Skyrim.
12. Barriers to Listening in World of
Warcraft.Notes on Contributors. Index of Video Games.
General Index.
William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Texas Christian University.Steven Reale is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Youngstown State University.
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