Table of Contents

Introduction: Press Start to Replay

Chapter 1: Terms and Conditions
Chapter 2: Playing with Music History
Chapter 3: A Requiem for Schrödinger's Cat
Chapter 4: Allusions of Grandeur
Chapter 5: A Clockwork Homage
Chapter 6: Remixed Metaphors
Chapter 7: Love in Many Monstrous Forms
Chapter 8: Violent Offenders and Violin Defenders
Chapter 9: Playing Chopin
Chapter 10: Gamifying Classical Music
Chapter 11: Classifying Game Music

Conclusion

About the Author

William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University, where he is also Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera and Fin-de-siècle Paris and co-editor of Music in Video Games: Studying Play.

Reviews

"Unlimited Replays occupies a significant place in game music scholarship. It is the first book devoted to ever-intriguing instances of classical music in video games, and through addressing that topic, it seeks to build a bridge from ludomusicology toward more longstanding fields of enquiry ... an accessible, thoughtful, and thought-provoking work on a topic of interest across academic disciplines, and beyond -- classical-music concert programmers and
critics might find much to consider here in regard to the music's future, for instance. Indeed, the book could be recommended to almost anybody with an interest in its topic." -- Jonathan Godsall, Journal of
Sound and Music in Games
"From Chopin and Mussorgsky to Bioshock and Fallout, Gibbons delivers a wondrous opus of sharp analyses into the intersections between classical music and video game cultures. A rewarding read for concert-goers and gamers alike." -- William Cheng, Assistant Professor of Music, Dartmouth College, and author of Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination
"Instead of weaponizing classical music (and so-called serious culture) against video games, or vice versa, Gibbons's thoughtful and important book shows how classical music can be deployed to tease out rich readings of video games where it appears as well as testifying to the ongoing resilience and relevance of classical music." -- Neil Lerner, Professor of Music, Davidson College