The Art of Counterpoint, Paperback/Gioseffo Zarlino

Translated by Professors Marco and Palisca in an exemplary manner, Part III concerns] the materials and methods of composition . . . for voices. . . . The] eighty chapters are] arranged in a logical progression of intricacy, beginning with the materials of counterpoint, intervals, rules of consonance and dissonance, and proceeding finally . . . to a discussion of chromaticisim and its faults. Journal of the American Musicological Society"