📜 Moseley, Roger. 2016. Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo. Oakland: University of California Press. http://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.16
While this book is certainly at the intersection of music and games, it's interesting how far it lands from the focus of this wiki, with music being classical and games electronic. And you probably need at least a passing interest in at least one of those areas to enjoy the book.
Mozart might take the most central spot in the musical aspect. Not only his works are analyzed as for their "ludomusicality" (a term introduced early although not strictly defined), but also influences and reception of his music are topically gathered.
Not 100% exclusively, but the games content is centered around a single producer, Nintendo, which provides the opportunity to deliver insights into the culture of Japan in the later half of the text.
The methodological "high point" of the book comes at p. 217 where Mozart and Mario ("Bro", a video game character) are directly compared in a triad with Harlequin (of commedia dell'arte, another recurring reference). And the book may be as a whole understood as a pursuit of this kind of analogies. The basis for all the parallels is to be some kind of "playfulness", although this, for better or worse, is not established neither cognitively nor historically.
Despite the technological engagement, observations in the text are backed with abundant material which quite often fits in the scope of our wiki. As the book is freely available, it might be a great place to read about the many music-gaming facts with properly provided references to current research. That, if you don't mind the slightly flowery style, or the author dropping the exciting threads quickly, as steps on a path towards more mainstream ludo- or musicological points.
Let's end this review with a non-exhaustive list of topics closer to the heart of Games for Music: Musikalisches Würfelspiel, speedrunning, Caillois typology, musical amateurism, puzzle canon; and also pieces: Reunion (John Cage), Votre Faust (Henri Pousseur), Játékok series (György Kurtág), Ongaku no chesu (Toshio Iwai, Ryūichi Sakamoto)…
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