Unlimited Replays

William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University, where he is also Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera and Fin-de-siècle Paris and co-editor of Music in Video Games: Studying Play.

• Introduction: Press Start to ReplayChapter 1: Terms and ConditionsChapter 2: Playing with Music History Chapter 3: A Requiem for Schrödinger's CatChapter 4: Allusions of GrandeurChapter 5: A Clockwork HomageChapter 6: Remixed Metaphors Chapter 7: Love in Many Monstrous FormsChapter 8: Violent Offenders and Violin DefendersChapter 9: Playing Chopin Chapter 10: Gamifying Classical MusicChapter 11: Classifying Game Music Conclusion

Unlimited Replays occupies a significant place in game music scholarship. It is the first book devoted to ever-intriguing instances of classical music in video games, and through addressing that topic, it seeks to build a bridge from ludomusicology toward more longstanding fields of enquiry ... an accessible, thoughtful, and thought-provoking work on a topic of interest across academic disciplines, and beyond -- classical-music concert programmers and critics might find much to consider here in regard to the music's future, for instance. Indeed, the book could be recommended to almost anybody with an interest in its topic.