Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack

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Beschreibung

Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew Schartmann takes us through the various external factors (e.g., the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo's marketing tactics) that coalesced into a ripe environment in which Kondo's musical experiments could thrive. He then delves into the music itself, searching for reasons why our hearts still dance to the "primitive" 8-bit tunes of a bygone era.

What musical features are responsible for Kondo's distinct "Mario sound"? How do the different themes underscore the vastness of Princess Peach's Mushroom Kingdom? And in what ways do the game's sound effects resonate with our physical experience of the world? These and other questions are explored within, through the lens of Kondo's compositional philosophy-one that would influence an entire generation of video game composers. As Kondo himself stated, "we [at Nintendo] were trying to do something that had never been done before." In this book, Schartmann shows his readers how Kondo and his team not just succeeded, but heralded in a new era of video games.

Über den Autor

Andrew Schartmann

Zusammenfassung

2015 is the 30th anniversary of the game, there will be lots of publicity from Nintendo.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forward
Preface
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

CONTEXTS
1-1 An Unlikely Hero is Born
1-2 Mario Grows Up
1-3 Kondo's Compositional Philosophy
1-4 Kondo's Instruments

MUSIC
2-1 Overworlds and Underworlds
2-2 The "Underwater" Waltz
2-3 Bowser's "Castle" Theme & Other Endings
2-4 Sound Effects

CONCLUSION

Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Biographien & Monographien
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781628928532
ISBN-10:	1628928530
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schartmann, Andrew
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Maße:	165 x 118 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew Schartmann
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.07.2015
Gewicht:	0,162 kg