03356nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-46806-3 DE-He213 20251030112021.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240430s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031468063 978-3-031-46806-3 10.1007/978-3-031-46806-3 doi MT5.5-7 AVA bicssc MUS041000 bisacsh AVA thema Gage, Christopher. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76096 Unity, Ambiguity, and Flexibility in Theme Music for Game Shows [electronic resource] : A Winning Combination / by Christopher Gage. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 92 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Creating Unity Through Thematic Repetition and Saturation -- Chapter 3: Creating Ambiguity through Metrical, Formal, and Harmonic Disruptions -- Chapter 4: Bonus Round: Nostalgia and the Reboot -- Chapter 5: Conclusion. With flashing lights, bright colors, and big money, game shows have been an integral part of American culture since the days of radio. While the music that accompanies game shows is charming and catchy, it presents two unique, opposing challenges: first, it must exhibit unity in its construction so that, at any point and for any length of time, it is a tuneful, recognizable signifier of the show to which it belongs; at the same time, it must also possess the ability to be started and stopped according to the needs of gameplay without seeming truncated. This book argues that game show music, in particular from 1960 to 1990, deploys a variety of shared techniques in order to manage these two goals, including theme-derived vamps; saturation of motivic material; and harmonic, rhythmic, and formal ambiguity. Together, these techniques make game show themes exciting, memorable, and perfectly suited to their role. Christopher Gage holds doctorates in music theory and organ performance from the University of Kansas. His research is wide-ranging, from keyboard repertoire before 1700 to twentieth-century game show music. Chris is Director of Music at Overbrook Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and currently teaches music theory at the University of Delaware. Music theory. 74241 Television broadcasting. 67524 Games. 66570 Theory of Music. 74242 Television Studies. 68022 Games Studies. 66572 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031468056 Printed edition: 9783031468070 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46806-3 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 59534 59534