An Introduction to Tonal Theory
"...This book owes its greatest debts to Schenker, Fux, and Bernhardt. Its central pedagogical means-species counterpoint-is that developed by Fux in the Gradus ad parnassum...the end to which that means is applied is that developed by Schenker in Kontrapunkt. Fux's goal, the Parnassus he wanted to lead the student to, was the ability to write imitation Palestrina. Schenker's goal [and the author's] was the ability to understand the complex and varied voice-leading patterns of actual eighteenth and nineteenth century music in terms of the simpler patterns available under the artificial constraints of species counterpoint..."--preface.