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Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples. Series Foreword. Prologue: The Journey Begins. William Gibbons and Steven Reale
- Part I : Magical Melodies
- 1. Song and the Transition to "Part-Talkie" Japanese Role-Playing Games. William Gibbons
- 2. "The Things I Do for Lust ...": Humor and Subversion in The Bard's Tale . Karen M. Cook
- 3. Mother / EarthBound Zero and the Power of the Naive Aesthetic: No Crying Until the Ending. Tim Summers
- Part II : Mystical Metaphors
- 4. Alien Waves: Sonic Reverberations of the RPG Interface in Lagrange Point . Kevin R. Burke
- 5. The Penultimate Fantasy: Nobuo Uematsu's Score for Cleopatra no Ma Takara . Dana Plank
- 6. Music in the Time of Video Games: Spelunking Final Fantasy IV . Julianne Grasso
- 7. Operatic Conventions and Expectations in Final Fantasy VI . Ryan Thompson
- Part III : Meaningful Memories
- 8. Ludomusical Dissonance in Diablo III . Michiel Kamp
- 9. A Hidden Harmony: Music Theory Pedagogy and Role-Playing Games. Meghan Naxer
- 10. Soundwalking and the Aurality of Stardew Valley : An Ethnography of Listening to and Interacting with Environmental Game Audio. Kate Galloway
- 11. Musical Landscapes in Skyrim . Michiel Kamp and Mark Sweeney
- 12. Barriers to Listening in World of Warcraft . Steven Reale Notes on Contributors.
- Index of Video Games. General Index.