Meanings
- uncountableThe 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 USA2 more examples
[…] 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 304The 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
Origin
Blend of ludology (“the study of games”) + musicology (“the study of music”). Coined circa 2007.
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