[Commlist] New Book: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - A Game Music Companion

Intellect is pleased to announce that */The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of 
Time - A Game Music Companion 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time>/*, 
by Tim Summers, is now available in ebook and hardback.

Some 22 years after its creation, /The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/ 
is still held in high critical regard as one of the finest examples of 
the video game medium. The same is true of the game’s music, whose 
superlative reception continues to be evident, whether in the context of 
the game or in orchestral concerts and recordings of the game’s music.

Given music’s well-established significance for the video game form, it 
is no coincidence that music is placed at the forefront of this most 
lauded and loved of games. In /Ocarina of Time/, music connects and 
unifies all aspects of the game, from the narrative conceit to the 
interactive mechanics, from the characters to the virtual worlds, and 
even into the activity of legions of fans and gamers, who play, replay, 
and reconfigure the music in an enduring cultural site that has /Ocarina 
of Time/ at its center. As video game music studies begins to mature 
into a coherent field, it is now possible to take the theoretical 
apparatus and critical approaches that have been developed in antecedent 
scholarship and put these into practice in the context of an extended 
concrete game example.

The most extensive investigation into the music of a single game yet 
undertaken, this book serves three important primary purposes: first, it 
provides a historical-critical account of the music of an important 
video game text; second, it uses this investigation to explore wider 
issues in music and media studies (including interactivity, fan 
cultures, and music and technology); and third, it serves as a model for 
future in-depth studies of video game music.

/The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - A Game Music Companion/ is the 
first book of Intellect’sStudies in Game Sound and Music 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-game-sound-and-music> series.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*Chapter 1: Introduction*

*Chapter 2: The Music of Ocarina of Time in Context*

    Nintendo’s Game Franchises
    The Legend of Zelda
    Kondo’s Approach to Music in The Legend of Zelda
    Music on the Nintendo 64
    Music in Ocarina of Time


*Chapter 3: The Ocarina and Link’s Musical Performances*

    The Ocarina
    The Songs
    The Scarecrow’s Song and Other Performances
    Musical Performance in Ocarina of Time
    The Function of Musical Performance in Games


*Chapter 4: Location Cues*

    Part I. Hyrule Field
    Part II. Location Cues Featuring Ocarina Songs
    Part III. Dungeon Cues
    Part IV. Towns
    Part V. Recurring Types of Location


*Chapter 5: Character Themes and Cutscenes
*

    Part I. Character Themes
    Part II. Other Cutscenes
    Music for Cutscenes


*Chapter 6: Ludic Cues
*

    Part I. Combat Music
    Part II. Cues for Treasure and Challenges
    Aestheticizing the Ludic


*Chapter 7: Interfaces and Sound Effects
*

    Earcons for Interfaces
    Musicality and Magic
    Sound and Motion
    Enemy Sound Effects
    Conclusions


*Chapter 8: Ocarina Afterlives
*

    Later Games
    Decontextualizing Sound
    A Multi-Valent Musical Medium



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www.intellectbooks.com/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time
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