★What exactly is game music? Is it an art form or a video game product? What impact does it have on the society we live in? Licia Missori guides us on a journey to discover the most famous video game music and its brilliant composer: Koji Kondo.

Video game music has long been regarded as little more than background sound for entertainment products. For the first time in Italy, this book highlights the elements that distinguish game music, exploring its technical and creative challenges, its connection with technology, and its incredible impact on psychology, society, and the market.

Interviews with prominent international figures in the gaming industry offer readers a direct glimpse into the cultural and professional horizons related to video game music—a true art form whose analysis requires a new branch of musicology, specifically called ludomusicology. Through a rigorous lens, two of the most famous video game soundtracks, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, works by the brilliant Japanese composer Koji Kondo, are examined in depth.

Licia Missori
Licia Missori, a pianist, composer, musicologist, and video game music producer, engages with music in all its dimensions. She has toured in 19 countries worldwide, released eight solo albums, specialized in Twentieth-Century Musical Cultures at university, and studied Video Game Music Composition at the conservatory. She collaborates with the advergame startup Gamindo and has produced soundtracks for promotional video games for major brands, including Google, Discovery Plus, Mulino Bianco, Lavazza, La Gazzetta dello Sport, and Chiara Ferragni.