Understanding Game Scoring: The Evolution of Compositional Practice for and through Gaming

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Mack Enns

Understanding Game Scoring

The Evolution of Compositional Practice for and through Gaming

Mack Enns

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CRC Press
22 November 2021

The Arts: General & Reference; Musical scores, lyrics & libretti; Digital animation; Games development & programming; Audio processing

Series: Perspectives on Music Production

Understanding Game Scoring explores the unique collaboration between gameplay and composition that defines musical scoring for video games.

Using an array of case studies reaching back into the canon of classic video games, this book illuminates the musical flexibility, user interactivity and sound programming that make game scoring so different from traditional modes of composition. Mack Enns explores the collaboration between game scorers and players to produce the final score for a game, through case studies of the Nintendo Entertainment System sound hardware configuration, and game scores, including the canonic scores for Super Mario Bros. (1985) and The Legend of Zelda (1986).

This book is recommended reading for students and researchers interested in the composition and production of video game scores, as well as those interested in ludo-musicology.

By: Mack Enns
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9780367492830
ISBN 10: 0367492830
Series: Perspectives on Music Production
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 22 November 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mack Enns is a Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, specializing in music design and programming for video games and interactive media, music technology and popular music studies.