A couple of guides to making it big in the music business get the critical twice-over from Making Music

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Eddie Cochran-White dispels those post-summertime blues with some cherished memories of recent good reads.

Yes, we can READ too! And to prove it

Although Michael Nyman's name and music became known through Peter Greenaway's extraordinary films, Prospero's Books may see not just the peak but also the end of their creative partnership. But Nyman has other strings to his bow, as Mark J. Prendergast discovers.

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Introduction to MIDI Programming

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TWO BOOKS TO DEMYSTIFY THE SYNTHESISER

Geoff Twigg and Neville Unwin cast a critical eye over two books aimed at taking the mystery out of synthesisers, and come to vastly differing conclusions.

Edited by Mark Vail, Miller Freeman Books

Vintage Synthesizers edited by Mark Vail. An American book celebrating the classics

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Volume 4 Starts Here!

Win one of four superb guitars, a gold plated microphone or a set of books. Nearly £2,000 worth of prizes.

Questions and answers on topics as far-ranging as the Sample Dump Standard and books on old synths. Whatever the problem MT's experts have the answers.

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Atari ST: Introduction to MIDI Programming

Books about MIDI are thin on the ground; books about MIDI on the Atari ST are even scarcer! However, there is one and you can read what Martin Russ thought of it on page 16...