Reddit reviews A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint, Revised Edition

In one of our FAQ topics, the study of counterpoint is mentioned in the top post. There, two series of books are recommended, each with a 16th century and an 18th century component.

• Robert Gauldin's A Practical Approach to xth-century Counterpoint (16th and 17th components)
  
  
• Peter Schubert's Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style and Baroque Counterpoint.
  
  These are really the two standards of counterpoint teaching today. Fux is often read as well, but I personally don't really recommend reading historical treatises as a first introduction to a basic concept. I've been taught from the Gauldin 18th century book and am about to teach from the Schubert Renaissance book. I think I would have to say that I prefer Schubert as a classroom textbook, but I'm honestly not entirely sure which one I would prefer as a self-study text.

I can recommend a couple....

A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint is a modern work that digs into the idioms. If you want to read the theory of the era, it's hard to beat Zarlino's Le institutioni harmonische, published in 1588. If you read Italian there are three different scans of 16th century editions available free on IMSLP