ludomusicology en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌlu.doʊˌmju.zɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Etymology
Blend of ludology (“the study of games”) + musicology (“the study of music”). Coined circa 2007.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The scientific study of video game music.
Having spent seven years researching video game music, I admit I increasingly find myself wondering these days whether a different kind of ludomusicology is possible […].
2016, Michael Austin, Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play, Bloomsbury Publishing USA:The swell of film musicological scholarship in the past twenty years (and the more recent surge in music–video studies and ludomusicology) has brought with it a corresponding profusion of music analysis, some informal, some extremely meticulous.
2017, Miguel Mera et al., editors, The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, Taylor & Francis, page 497:[…] the discipline of ludomusicology might emerge as a way to bring insights yielded from studying musical performance to bear on how ludic experiences are constructed and represented […].
2013, Nicholas Cook, Richard Pettengill, Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance, University of Michigan Press, page 304:
Deriveds
ludomusicological · ludomusicologist