Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
Zarathustra as Superman: reading the Nietzschean narrative in Also Sprach Zarathustra |
2014 |
10611 |
The subtitle to Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra reads "Tondichtung (frei nach Freidrich Nietzsche)" ("Tone poem freely after Nietzsche"). But to what extent does the tone poem expresses Nietzschean philosophy? A statement by Strauss himself... |
Knüpftechnik: coding narrative in the music of Brahms and the experimental fiction of Robbe-Grillet |
2015 |
1892 |
Linkage technique, or Knüpftechnik, describes a musical event where the beginning of a new phrase or formal section takes as its initial idea the conclusion of the immediately preceding one. I argue that the transformation of a concluding gesture int... |
“Welcome to the world of Pokémon!”: music and the player’s experience in Chunsoft’s Pokémon Mystery Dungeon |
2018 |
68918 |
Most scholarship on video game music tends to focus on either their interactive or non-interactive elements, known as ‘gameplay’ and ‘story’. The music of Chunsoft’s Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series unites gameplay and story through the use of motives,... |