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Bel Canto Today is listed as a technical book by
The United States Copyright Office © TX6-072-380
©  Copyright Australia 2004

This 70 page book includes the following chapters:

• Introduction
• E.H. Caesari & the Old Italian School
• Camerata Rediscovers Nature's Laws
• The Mental Lift-up Principle
• Chest Voice - A Misnomer
• The Raised Larynx - A Solution
• Vowels and Modifications
• The Vowel-Laying Movement
• The Pharyngeal Voice (La voce faringea)
• An Esoteric Approach
• Trilling
• Breathing
• Tenors
• Baritones, Bassi Cantanti, Basses
• Sopranos, Mezzo-Sopranos, Contraltos
• Consonants
• For Teachers of Singing
• The Last Word
• Addenda
• Vernon Mackie Biography

Product Type: Textbook
Printing Year: 2004

Subject: Education
Language: English

Educational Level: Professional

“Vernon Mackie is a man with a cause; the preservation of the teaching of singing firmly rooted in principles of the ‘Old School’ as espoused by E Herbert-Caesari with whom he studied. It is these principles, to which he unswervingly adhered during his lifetime as a teacher that he passionately extols in this book.”

Dr Colin Brumby
Composer & Professor Emeritus
School of Music, University of Queensland

“I had the privilege of being a pupil for two years with the great Caesari. Singers who have not experienced reading E. Herbert Caesari’s books on singers and singing should read this book written by Vernon Mackie, a man of great experience, who was also a pupil of Caesari.”

Rosina Raisbeck MBE
Principal Singer (rtd)
Opera Australia
Royal Opera Covent Garden

"His teaching expertise has been remarkably impressive with voice students who have come under his guidance. An exponent of the Old Italian School of Singing which has produced some of the world’s greatest singers for 350 years, Mr Mackie has nurtured many excellent pupils.”

Lucrecia R Kasilag
President & Artistic Director
Culture Centre of the Phillipines