Solutions for Singers: Tools for Every Performer and Teacher

I ordered this book after reading through its impressive-looking list of contents and on the strength of Miller's excellent earlier books on singing technique. I was slightly disappointed that the text turned out to be somewhat superficial, repeating much of what the author has written in more extensive detail in his earlier books. It may be a useful book to buy if you don't already own his other manuals but it's overpriced and redundant if you do. It's really a sort of extended FAQs or troubleshooting manual, presented in question-and-answer format, and the length of the "solutions" to the questions ranges from a couple of paragraphs to a couple of pages. Few of the solutions are discussed in any great depth, and one has the impression of being in a conference hall where the clock is ticking and the lecturer has been instructed to answer as many questions as possible before the coffee break. It contains a great number of interesting questions, but the answers tend to be unbalanced in terms of detail. A question about placing three fingers in the mouth as a way of opening the throat gets one and a half pages' worth of answer, but one on breathiness in the high register of female singers (surely the more important of the two) receives only 9 lines in reply. In view of the wealth of information at Miller's disposal, the problem probably lies at the hands of the commissioning editor responsible for the book's structure, rather than with the author.