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Games may use words both as a mechanic and as a musical result, including recitation, calls, singing, etc. Some role-play or basing the game on narratives may also happen. If you want all of it, maybe improvisational theatre is a thing for you.
Downbeat. The first measure of the bar, or (in more a free context) a moment when players start to improvise together.
Downtime. A situation during the game when a player is not engaged in play.
Elegant Game. A game that has a relatively low amount of rules for what it does.
Emergence. A phenomenon when qualities of the entity are not due to qualities of its parts but as the result of interactions between them.
End Condition. A rule by which the game ends.
Event (musical event). "Anything" in music terms — a unit of music at any given scale of consideration.
Extended technique. Any unusual way of producing sounds with your instruments or voice.
Facilitator. A person who helps a group to work together.
Fighting. A situation during the game when Players exchange actions to establish a winner over an objective.
Flow. Disambiguation: both cognitive flow and gameplay flow are relevant for our wiki and should have a glossary entry.
Found sound. Music material that was not produced by an instrument or vocals.
Free Improvisation. [in one of the understandings it's] a synonym for non-idiomatic music
FROMG. The First Rule Of Music Games: "The main aim of playing a music game is to play good music".
Gameplay flow. The quality of gameplay experience based on interaction between consecutive stages of the game.
Gamer (role). other name for a: Player
GDQ. Games Done Quick, a charity event about speedrunning.
Genre. A conventional category that identifies some work (piece of music, game, etc.) as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
GM. Game Master
Goals. Goals are aims for the player, usually established by rules, they differentiate games from other types of play.
Hambone. A name for body percussion in African and American context.
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- #3911 Wikimedia asks for the sound of all knowledge… Easy!?
- #3962 Like Michael Jackson
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- 4. Invent (better yet: dream) a new word. Explain its meaning, etymology and a famous invented quote in which ...
- 41. Dirty minimalism
- 439. Expression through abstraction
- 439. Hybrid Self
- 45. Create tension and release through careful manipulation of just one parameter
- 45. Sherlock Sawyer
- 459. From a Distance
- 461. Goldilocks Zone
- 493. Let the talking do the music
- 50. Don’t use the Fibonacci sequence in your piece
- 505. Sing the truth in Falsetto
- 508. Loudatio. Howlelujah. Sighlence.
- 53. Read the shape and surface of an instrument – yours ...
- 542. Schrödinger Scat
- 59. Vowel Choral Drone
- 6. Release The Beast
- 67. Treat density – in sound and in time – as a dynamic parameter in every voice in your composition, and in the ...
- 77. Audio Vacation
- 91. Walking music
- 94. Exorcism
- A Clave de Candombe
- A. Fleugelman (ed.), The New Games Book
- A Single Cue
- A song about a place you’ve never been
- A. Williams, New Music and the Claims of Modernity
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- About Plagiarism in Games
- ABP128
- Acapella Harmonies
- Acapella Harmonies / One Note Piece
- ACSRS64