Keys to Play

Acknowledgments
Prelude: Press Any Key to Start

Part I. Fields and Interfaces of Musical Play
Key 1. Ludomusicality
1-1 Orders of Play
1-2 Beyond Work and Play
1-3 The Sound of Gunplay
1-4 Bits and Beats
1-5 Playing Undead

Key 2. Digital Analogies
2-1 Apollo 1, Marsyas 0
2-2 Notes on Keys
2-3 Interface Values
2-4 (Key)board Games and Temperamental Tactics
2-5 Tristan's Chord, Schoenberg's Voice

Part II. Play by Play: Improvisation, Performance, Recreation
Key 3. The Emergence of Musical Play
3-1 Unforeheard Circumstances
3-2 Pantomimes and Partimenti
3-3 From Black Box to Glassy Shell
3-4 The Case of Winkel's Componium
3-5 The Invisible Thumb on the Scale

Key 4. High Scores: WAM vs. LVB
4-1 Unsettled Scores
4-2 Mozart's Two-Player Games
4-3 Concerted Action
4-4 Mozart and Mario Play the Field
4-5 Beethoven's Recursive Feedback Loops

Key 5. Play Again?
5-1 Nintendo's Brand of Ludomusicality
5-2 Analogous Digitalities
5-3 The Ludomusical Emergence of Toshio Iwai
5-4 High Scores: Nodame Cantabile
5-5 Replay: A Cento

Notes
Bibliography
Ludography
Index