Andrew’s writings focus on a diverse range of musical topics. Ranging from classical composers to video game scores, his work reaches a wide audience by bridging the gap between traditional and popular repertoire.
Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
New York: Bloomsbury 2015
(Japanese Edition)
Du Books 2023
Maestro Mario
New York: Thought Catalog, 2013.
papers
“Evaluation of a virtual reality E-cigarette prevention game for adolescents.” Addictive Behaviors 122 (2001).
“Cultural Imperialism in Capcom’s Mega Man Series.” Journal of Sound and Music in Games 2/1 (2021): 17–45.
"From Theory to Practice: How to Compose a Sentence," in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, ed. Leigh VanHandel (New York: Routledge, 2020)
"Hirokazu Tanaka's Metroid (1986)," in 33 1/3: The B-Sides (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019)
"Music of the Nintendo Entertainment System: Form, Technique, and Style," Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2018
"A Little Gem of Light: Harmony and Motive in Shostakovich's op. 5, no. 1," DSCH Journal 48 (January 2018): 27–28
"Expectation Modules and Listener Fatigue in Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985)," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Arlington, 2017
Review of Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination, by William Cheng, Journal of Popular Music Studies 28, no. 4 (December 2016): 493–94
"Taming the Atari 2600," paper presented at the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Vancouver, November 2016
"Reinventing the Prelude & Fugue: A Teaching Tool for the Twenty-first Century," Clavier Companion 7, no. 3 (May/June 2015): 42–47
"Wunderkind? Craftsmanship in Shostakovich's Prelude in A minor," DSCH Journal 42 (January 2015): 34–36
"'No, no, it's a symphony, a symphony': A Hermeneutic Analysis of Shostakovich's Twelfth String Quartet, Op. 133," DSCH Journal 41 (July 2014): 7–14
"A Case for History and Theory in the Practice Room," Clavier Companion 6, no. 3 (May/June 2014): 48–51
"Shostakovich's Sonata Forms and the Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 67," DSCH Journal 38 (January 2013): 32–26
"A Study of Thematic Introduction in Beethoven's Music," MA thesis, McGill University, 2011