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Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
Roger Moseley
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Description for Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
Paperback. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, this title deals with the genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. Num Pages: 468 pages, 23 audio, 97 color, 13 video, 3 music ex, 1 table. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 638.
This is a free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' Open Access publishing program for monographs. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book's diverse objects of inquiry-from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles-enter into analogical relations. ... Read more
This is a free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' Open Access publishing program for monographs. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book's diverse objects of inquiry-from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles-enter into analogical relations. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520291249
SKU
V9780520291249
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About Roger Moseley
Roger Moseley is Assistant Professor of Music at Cornell University. Active as a collaborative pianist on modern and historical instruments, he has published essays on the interface of the keyboard, the performativity of digital games, the practice of eighteenth-century improvisation, and the music of Brahms.
Reviews for Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
Keys to Play has been called a game-changer and dazzling and daring by reviewers. It cuts across the traditional sub-disciplines of music studies to offer new and challenging connections between them. Cornell Chronicle