A wide-ranging survey of video game music creation, practice, perception and analysis - clear, authoritative and up-to-date.

Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the prac

From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game mus

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out

This text is intended to serve as an introduction to the study of video game music. It was initially conceived as a companion to an introductory video game musi