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Music to Shoot You By: Taking Beethoven on a Ride-Along in First-Person-Shooter Games

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The tradition of Beethoven and Wagner is ignored by today’s academic composers, but over-the-top Romanticism thrives in first-person-shooter video games.

Ted Gioia
Ted Gioia
Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia

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