![]() ![]() It cuts across the traditional sub-disciplines of music studies to offer new and challenging connections between them. “Keys to Play” has been called a “game-changer” and “dazzling and daring” by reviewers. ![]() This led me to consider not only how music can be playful, but also how play can be musical.” “You play a piano rather than ‘working’ it. “So many languages use a verb meaning ‘to play’ in relation to music,” says Moseley, assistant professor of music. ![]() The book spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to address musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance and recreation at the keyboard. Roger Moseley’s new book, “ Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo,” considers the playing of keyboards, both musical and at the computer, as a primary mode of musical behavior. ![]()
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