Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo - Couverture souple

Moseley, Roger

 
9780520291249: Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520291247 ISBN 13 : 9780520291249
Editeur : University of California Press, 2016

Synopsis

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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. Remapping the keyboard's topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520291247
ISBN 13 
9780520291249
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
468
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Personne responsable
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