4 Building Worlds with Beethoven: Epistemic Roles of (“Classical”) Music in Animated Films and Video Games
Reinke Schwinning
Sparkling Moonlight and Rattling Bones: Music and Imaginary Worlds
On December 17, 2015, possibly billions of people all over the world logging onto Google were greeted by Ludwig van Beethoven himself, with curly gray hair and a stern, concentrated expression, sitting before a piano and holding a quill in his hand. The world’s leading search engine celebrated the composer’s 245th birthday with a “Google Doodle.” On clicking Beethoven’s depiction, the user could start a simple browser game: Beethoven, on his way to the concert hall, repeatedly loses his music sheets due to quaint accidents. ...
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