Additional Resources

Playlists

Publications

Castillo, Andrés. “Five Women Working in Game Music, Vol. 2.” Game Music Hub (blog), March 16, 2022.

Cheng, William. Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination. Oxford Music/Media Series. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2014.*

Collins, Karen, Bill Kapralos, and Holly Tessler. The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio. Oxford: University Press, 2014.*

Collins, Karen. The Beep Book: the History of Game Sound : Interviews from the Set of the Beep Movie. Second edition, Ehtonal, Inc., 2019.*

______. Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013.*

______. From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Ashgate, 2008.*

______. Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008.*

Enns, Mackenzie. Understanding Game Scoring: The Evolution of Compositional Practice for and through Gaming. Perspectives on Music Production. Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.*

Fritsch, Melanie, and Tim Summers. The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2021.*

Hese, Jorijn van. Next level: video game music for euphonium & baritone. Jorijn van Hese, 2021.*

Ivănescu, Andra. Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game: The Way It Never Sounded. Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.*

Kamp, Michiel, Tim Summers, and Mark Sweeney. Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music. Genre, Music and Sound. Sheffield, UK ; Equinox Publishing, 2016.*

Kelly, Jennifer, and Winifred Phillips. “Winifred Phillips.” In In Her Own Words. University of Illinois Press, 2013.*

Lacina, Dia. “The Women Who Invented Video Game Music.” Wired. Accessed December 20, 2022.

McQuinn, Julie. Popular Music and Multimedia. Library of Essays on Popular Music. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.*

Pham, Alex. “Female Composers in Games Industry See Gender-Based Pay Penalty, New Study Finds.” Billboard (blog), September 26, 2016.

Phillips, Winifred. A Composer’s Guide to Game Music. First MIT Press paperback edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2017.*

Raine, Lena. Celeste Piano Collections: Sheet Music from the Game. Materia Editions, 2018.*

Thomas, Chance. Composing Music for Games: The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring. Milton: Routledge, 2017.*

Wilcox, Felicity. Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound. Routledge Music and Screen Media Series. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.*

Assassin’s Creed: Leap into History. Not yet released, 2023.*

Beícoli. The longest road on Earth: original soundtrack. New York: Sony Classical, 2021.*

______. “The Longest Road on Earth (Original Video Game Soundtrack).” YouTube Music. Accessed December 1, 2022.

Bergdahl, Lovisa, Ariana Gillis, Joe Henson, Oleksa Lozowchuk, Joris de Man, Alexis Smith, Niels van der Leest, Julie Elven, and Musica Intima. Horizon Forbidden West: Official Soundtrack. New York: Sony Classical, 2022.*

Curry, Jessica. Everybody’s gone to the rapture. Sony Classical, 2022.*

Kaufman, Jake. Shovel Knight: The Definitive Soundtrack. Brave Wave, 2022.*

London Music Works. The essential games music collection. Vol. 2. Silva Screen Records, 2018.*

Matsumae, Manami. Three Movements. 2017.*

Raine, Lena. Celeste Complete Sound Collection. Ship to Shore, 2020.*

______. Oneknowing. Local Action, 2019.*

Utada, Jason Hayes, Robyn Miller, Tim Larkin, Jack Wall, Michael Giacchino, Christopher Tin, et al. Video games live. [Vol. One]. Hayes, Middlesex, England: EMI Classics, 2008.*

Collins, Karen, et al. Beep: a Documentary History of Game Sound. Ehtonal, 2016.*

“Women Who Pioneered Video Game Music.” Game Score Fanfare, 2021.

“Yoko Shimomura Interview.” Ehtonal Canada. YouTube, 2019.

“Winifred Phillips Interview.” Ehtonal Canada. YouTube, 2019.