Counterpoint - selected bibliography


MODAL COUNTERPOINT

Fux, J.J. The Study of Counterpoint (Gradus ad Parnassum). Alfred Mann, 
ed. New York: W.W. Norton. (original, 1725).

Gauldin, Robert. A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint. 
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1985. (reprint - Waveland Press).

Jeppesen, Knud. Counterpoint, The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the 
Sixteenth Century.  Glen Haydon, trans. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
Hall, 1939.

Krenek, Ernst. Modal Counterpoint in the Style of the Sixteenth Century. 
New York: G. Schirmer, 1959.

Merritt, A.T. Sixteenth Century Polyphony. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939.

Morris, R.O. Contrapuntal Technique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 
1922, revised, 1944.

Soderlund, G.F. Direct Approach to Counterpoint in the Sixteenth Century. 
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1947.

Soderlund and Scott. Examples of Gregorian Chant & Other Sacred Music 
of the 16th Century. New York: Meredith Corp., 1971; (orig. Appleton, 
1937,).

Zarlino, Gioseffo. The Art of Counterpoint.  Marco & Palisca, trans., W.W. 
Norton, 1976. (original, 1558).

Zarlino, Gioseffo. On the Modes (Part Four of Le Istitutioni Harmoniche, 
1558). Vered Cohen, tr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 
1983.


TONAL COUNTERPOINT (just starting)

Benjamin, Thomas. Counterpoint in the style of J.S. Bach. 1986.

Piston, Walter, 1894-1976. Counterpoint. New York: W. W. Norton & 
company, inc., 1947. "First edition." "Musical illustrations drawn by 
Mario Carmosino." London: Gollancz, 1949.