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

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...

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Main Author: Moseley, Roger (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2016
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