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

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Prelude: Press Any Key to Start
• Part I. Fields and Interfaces of Musical Play
• Key 1. Ludomusicality
• 1-1 Orders of Play
• 1-2 Beyond Work and Play
• 1-3 The Sound of Gunplay
• 1-4 Bits and Beats
• 1-5 Playing Undead
• Key 2. Digital Analogies
• 2-1 Apollo 1, Marsyas 0
• 2-2 Notes on Keys
• 2-3 Interface Values
• 2-4 (Key)board Games and Temperamental Tactics
• 2-5 Tristan's Chord, Schoenberg's Voice
• Part II. Play by Play: Improvisation, Performance, Recreation
• Key 3. The Emergence of Musical Play
• 3-1 Unforeheard Circumstances
• 3-2 Pantomimes and Partimenti
• 3-3 From Black Box to Glassy Shell
• 3-4 The Case of Winkel's Componium
• 3-5 The Invisible Thumb on the Scale
• Key 4. High Scores: WAM vs. LVB
• 4-1 Unsettled Scores
• 4-2 Mozart's Two-Player Games
• 4-3 Concerted Action
• 4-4 Mozart and Mario Play the Field
• 4-5 Beethoven's Recursive Feedback Loops
• Key 5. Play Again?
• 5-1 Nintendo's Brand of Ludomusicality
• 5-2 Analogous Digitalities
• 5-3 The Ludomusical Emergence of Toshio Iwai
• 5-4 High Scores: Nodame Cantabile
• 5-5 Replay: A Cento
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Ludography
• Index