Discussion The 20th century brought us such a diversity in our entertainment, wherein we can enjoy all the finely crafted classical from previous eras. But now we get jazz, rock and roll, musicals, film scores, and video games. For some odd reason, music for video games are not taken seriously. Perhaps because the earlier video games had music composed and created on the early synthesizers, so the sound quality is not comparable to a full orchestra. However, give the composers who created the pieces for those early great games credit for some of the most infectious melodies created. You'll see from the examples below. Film scores were initially not taken seriously by academia, again, because it wasn't "serious" music. Early film scores had a certain style to them, quite melodramatic in comparison to other styles. But you can see from some of the examples, they're quite good, well formed pieces. I am also adding