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Includes bibliographical references. |
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"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 an archaeology 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 titles--enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard's topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new."--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Prelude: press any key to start -- Pt I. Fields and interfaces of musical play -- Key 1 Ludomusicality -- Key 2 Digital analogies -- Pt II. Play by play : improvisation, performance, recreation -- Key 3 The emergence of musical play -- Key 4 High scores: WAM vs. LVB -- Key 5 Play again? |
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English. |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Music -- Performance -- History.
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Keyboards (Music) -- History.
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Play (Philosophy)
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Video games -- Psychological aspects.
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Claviers -- Histoire.
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Jeu (Philosophie)
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Jeux vidéo -- Aspect psychologique.
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Media studies.
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Music.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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The arts.
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MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
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Keyboards (Music)
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Music -- Performance
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Play (Philosophy)
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Video games -- Psychological aspects
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Tasteninstrumentenmusik
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Klaviermusik
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Videospiel
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Electronic games |
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Keyboards (Music) history |
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Musical performance history |
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Play |
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moseley, Roger, 1974- Keys to play. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520291249 (DLC) 2016013674 |
| ISBN |
0520965094 |
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0520291247 |
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9780520291249 |
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9780520965096 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/luminos.16 doi |
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AU@ 000057253530 |
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CHBIS 011023240 |
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CHDSB 006648917 |
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CHVBK 375382194 |
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CHVBK 492287198 |
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GBVCP 1008666580 |
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