[Commlist] New book: Analyzing NES Music: Harmony, Form, and the Art of Technological Constraint

Intellect is pleased to share that /Analyzing NES Music: Harmony, Form, 
and the Art of Technological Constraint 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/analyzing-nes-music>/, by Andrew 
Schartmann, is out in hardback.

This study of five of Nintendo’s landmark music scores offers new 
insights into video game music composition and creativity with limited 
technology. Faced with severe technological constraints on system 
memory, composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways 
to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. Their efforts 
gave rise to a set of compositional techniques for creating the illusion 
of variety.

Andrew Schartmann distills these techniques into a theory of harmony and 
form for the analysis of NES music. It then uses this theory to analyze 
five landmark scores of the NES era: /Super Mario Bros./, /Dragon 
Warrior/, /Metroid/, /Mega Man 2/, and /Silver Surfer/. Both theory and 
analysis are scaffolded by a detailed description of the NES hardware 
and its attendant constraints, highlighting the ever-evolving dialogue 
between technology, commercial demand, and artistic sensibility that 
characterizes video game music of the 1980s and 1990s.

Part of the Studies in Game Sound and Music 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-game-sound-and-music> series.


*_Table of Contents
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*List of Examples
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction*

*PART I - TECHNIQUE
1 - *Technology
*2 -* Loops & Modules
*3 -* Harmony
*4 -* Modular Composition
*5 - *Layered Composition

*PART II - ANALYSIS
6 - */Super Mario Bros. /(1985)
*7 -* /Dragon Warrior/ (1986)
*8 - */Metroid /(1986)
*9 -* /Mega Man 2/ (1987)
*10 -* /Silver Surfer/ (1990)

*Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Ludography*
*Index *


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/analyzing-nes-music


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