Music in the Role-playing Game : Heroes & Harmonies

SUMARIO. Prologue: The Journey Begins.// Part I: Magical Melodies / 1. Song and the Transition to “Part-Talkie” Japanese Role-Playing Games. / 2. “The Things I Do for Lust …”: Humor and Subversion in The Bard’s Tale. / 3. Mother/EarthBound Zero and the Power of the Naïve Aesthetic: No Crying Until the Ending. // Part II: Mystical Metaphors / 4. Alien Waves: Sonic Reverberations of the RPG Interface in Lagrange Point. / 5. The Penultimate Fantasy: Nobuo Uematsu’s Score for Cleopatra no Ma Takara. / 6. Music in the Time of Video Games: Spelunking Final Fantasy IV. / 7. Operatic Conventions and Expectations in Final Fantasy VI. // Part III: Meaningful Memories / 8. Ludomusical Dissonance in Diablo III. / 9. A Hidden Harmony: Music Theory Pedagogy and Role-Playing Games. / 10. Soundwalking and the Aurality of Stardew Valley: An Ethnography of Listening to and Interacting with Environmental Game Audio. / 11. Musical Landscapes in Skyrim. / 12. Barriers to Listening in World of Warcraft.