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Musicology

Will Nelson writes on music in video games at Ludomusings. A few favorites; the rest live on his site.

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  TheoryMay 25, 2026

  Basic Musical Forms in Video Games

  How game composers borrow strophic, ternary, rondo, and sonata forms from classical music to write soundtracks players can follow without thinking about it.

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  ColumnMay 4, 2026

  Video Games are Total Works of Art

  One year into the blog: an argument that video games are the fullest realization yet of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk — art unified by a player who co-creates it.

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  EssaysApril 13, 2026

  Weaving Their Own Music — Hearing (and Queering) Gender in Video Game Scoring

  How game scores from Ocarina of Time to Hollow Knight open space for gender expression beyond the masculine/feminine binary.

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