ludomusicology

ludomusicology

English

Etymology

Blend of ludology (“the study of games”) +‎ musicology (“the study of music”). Coined circa 2007.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌlu.doʊ.ˌmju.zɪ.ˈkɑ.lə.dʒi/

Noun

ludomusicology (uncountable)

1. The scientific study of video game music.
   • 2013, Nicholas Cook, Richard Pettengill, Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance, University of Michigan Press, page 304:

     […] 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 […] .

   • 2016, Michael Austin, Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play, Bloomsbury Publishing USA:

     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 […] .

   • 2017, Miguel Mera et al. (editors), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, Taylor & Francis, page 497:

     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.

Derived terms

• ludomusicological
• ludomusicologist

Related terms

• ludomusical
• ludomusicality