Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520291247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 470 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Visit luminosoa to learn more. 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 ti
"“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."