We explore the musical, cultural and poetic relationships between classical piano and video games.
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Kristen L. Abbey, PhD:    / @abbeyneveroverthinking  
Dr. Gabrielle Chou: https://www.gabriellechou.com/
George Xiaoyuan Fu: https://www.georgefupiano.com/

Written, Edited and Hosted by Robert Fleitz   / rfleitz  

Additional cinematography: Matias Tamlander

Additional research and script assistance: Dennis Fleitz, Zachary Detrick, Jakob Schmidt, Han Shi, Anthony Lioi and Amanda Wagner

Dedicated to my uncle Rick, who first introduced me to video games and whose support helped my piano journey as well.

⏰Chapters

00:00 Video Games VS Classical Music?
02:36 High Speed Lang Lang
04:45 Eternal Sonata and Chopin's Neo-Romanticism
06:48 Resident Evil and Piano Puzzles
08:08 Final Fantasy 7 and the Trap of Oversimplification
10:50 The Minecraft Generation
13:15 Mozart, Breath of the Wild, and Musical Topic Theory
16:38 Building Relationships through Music and Games
17:42 The Magic Circle... and the Grind

ESSENTIAL SOURCES

🎹 Tonebase Lessons

Sara Davis Buechner “Mozart’s Sonata K.332”
Seymour Bernstein “Fur Elise”
John O’Conor “Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata”
Derek Remeš “Windows on a Mozart Sonata: Topic Theory”

🎮 Video Games
Tennis for Two (1958)
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1995)
Super Mario 64 (1996)
Resident Evil (1996)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
Eternal Sonata (2007)
Deemo (2010)
Gran Turismo 5 (2010)
Super Meat Boy (2010)
Minecraft (2011)
Max Payne 3 (2012)
Super Smash Bros Ultimate (2014)
Assasin’s Creed Syndicate (2015)
Undertale (2015)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
Wandersong (2018)
Celeste (2018)
Before Your Eyes (2021)
Resident Evil 8 (2021)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)

📽️ Media
Ludwig Goransson’s Oscar Speech
The Cat Concerto (1945)
La Note Bleue (1991)
Tar (2022)

📚 Books and Articles
Brian Ashcraft “Chopin’s Role in Eternal Sonata Explained”
Ian Bogost “How to Talk about Video Games”
Melanie Fritsch "Worlds of Music: Strategies for Creating Music-based Experiences in Videogames"
JJ McCullough    • How culturally important are video ga...  
Zen Hsu, “The Min/Max Pianist: Introducing Video Game Music to the Piano Repertoire”
Francis McCabe “Music to My Ears: Playing Video Games Might be Good for You”
Roger Moseley “Keys to Play”
Willa Rowe “People Can’t Stop Playing Piano In The FF7 Rebirth Demo”
Jim Samson "Chopin, Pianos and East Asian Modernity”
Nahre Sol    • Is the OST from Zelda: Breath of the ...  
Thomas B. Yee, “Narrating Near-Death Experience Chopin’s “Revolutionary Étude” as an interpretive key in Eternal Sonata”

About

This video is about how to become a better pianist by learning from video games. We discuss the connections between classical piano and video games -- their history, philosophy, culture, and of course, music. Lang Lang's appearance in Gran Turismo 5, the game Eternal Sonata and its inclusion of Stanislav Bunin, Minecraft and its impact on piano pedagogy, the use of piano in Resident Evil and FFVII Minigame, Breath of the Wild, and more. We also get into Mozart music and topic theory.

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