New Book: A Composer's Guide to Game Music (The MIT Press)

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A Composer's Guide to Game Music is a new book that I wrote for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press: A Composer's Guide to Game Music: Winifred Phillips: 9780262026642: Amazon.com: Books

The book is an educational resource for aspiring video game composers. You can read a substantial excerpt from the book on its Amazon page (click on the image of the book cover to read). You can also read the book's endorsements, which include Harry Gregson-Williams, David Jaffe, Michael Sweet and Didier Lord.


The Amazon page description of the book:

Music in video games is often a sophisticated, complex composition that serves to engage the player, set the pace of play, and aid interactivity. Composers of video game music must master an array of specialized skills not taught in the conservatory, including the creation of linear loops, music chunks for horizontal resequencing, and compositional fragments for use within a generative framework. In A Composer's Guide to Game Music, Winifred Phillips -- herself an award-winning composer of video game music -- provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field. Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion-dollar, employment-generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, the most important qualification for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games. Phillips offers detailed coverage of essential topics, including musicianship and composition experience; immersion; musical themes; music and game genres; workflow; working with a development team; linear music; interactive music, both rendered and generative; audio technology, from mixers and preamps to software; and running a business. A Composer's Guide to Game Music offers indispensable guidance for musicians and composers who want to deploy their creativity in a dynamic and growing industry, protect their musical identities while working in a highly technical field, and create great music within the constraints of a new medium.
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I hope you like it!

Over the next few weeks, I'll be putting some supporting educational videos online. These will supplement the material in the book, and you can follow my Twitter feed to get notified when they become available. Thanks!


-Winifred Phillips (@winphillips)
 
I'll add it to the revised list of books to get (should be ready in a few more weeks - revising a 600 post thread into 200+ books with links and comments is a mammoth task)
 
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