Composing Music for Games
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Composing Music for Games

The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring

Chance Thomas

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Composing Music for Games

The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring

Chance Thomas

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Composing Music for Games is a guidebook for launching and maintaining a successful career as a video game composer. It offers a pragmatic approach to learning, intensified through challenging project assignments and simulations. Author Chance Thomas begins with the foundation of scoring principles applicable to all media, and then progresses serially through core methodologies specific to video game music. This book offers a powerful blend of aesthetic, technique, technology and business, which are all necessary components for a successful career as a video game composer.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781315318622
Edition
1
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are many capable hands which made this work lighter. I would like to personally and enthusiastically thank as many as possible in this section! To begin, thank you to Sean Connelly and Caitlin Murphy from Focal Press, who first saw the potential in this idea and successfully shepherded the project from manuscript through publication. Thank you to my Taylor & Francis production team, especially Alfred Symons, Siñn Cahill, Peter Wilder, Alex Lazarou and Liz Jones. Thank you to Paul Lipson, Penka Kouneva, Jonathan Mayer and Dr. Mark Parker, each of whom invested invaluable time in reviewing my manuscript and delivered incisive, expansive and actionable input. Their recommendations sharpened each chapter into a more powerful tool for future readers. Thank you to the multitude of celebrity experts who generously shared their hard-won insights so that students could start a little higher up the ladder than we all did. This includes Marty O’Donnell, Guy Whitmore, Garry Schyman, Troels Folmann, Mike Morasky, Neal Acree, Inon Zur, Jack Wall, Tim Larkin, Benedicte Ouimet, Sam Cardon, George Sanger, Tom Salta, Rod Abernethy, Simon Ashby, Stephan Schutze, Gordon Durity, Rodney Gates, Adam Gubman, Jason Hayes, Jeff Broadbent, Josh Aker, Paul Taylor, Richie Nieto, Aaron Marks, Or Kribos and Bob Rice. Also to an enriching array of fertile minds from scattered fields whose added light brought important...

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