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Benjamin, Thomas. 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. {GB; TCL}
_______________. 1986. Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach. New York: Schirmer. {GB}
Berry. Wallace. Structural Functions in Music. 1987/1976. Mineola, NY: Dover. {GB}
Bregman, Albert S. 1990. Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB; TCL}
Chafe, Eric. 1991. Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. {GB}
Dahn, Luke. 2017. Bach-Chorales.com. Available online at: <https://www.bach-chorales.com/Index.htm>.
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Gauldin, Robert. 2013. A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint, Revised Edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. {GB}
_____________. 2004. Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, pp. A14-A25. {GB}
_____________. 1993. "Fux to Bach: Bridging the Gap." Indiana Theory Review 14/2: 45–72. {IU}
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_________________. 2007. Music in the Galant Style. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; TCL}
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Martino, Donald. 1985. 178 Chorale Harmonizations of J.S. Bach: A Comparative Edition for Study, 2nd ed. Newton, MA: Dantalian. {GB}
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Narmour, Eugene. 1990. The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: The Implication-Realization Model. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. {GB}
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Parncutt, Richard, 2024. Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {MIT Open Access}
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Schoenberg, Arnold. 1963. Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint. New York: Faber & Faber. {GB; IA}
Schubert, Peter and Christoph Neidhöfer. 2023/2006. Baroque Counterpoint. Expanded Edition. Buffalo, NY: State University of New York Press. {1/e: GB; 3/e: GB}
Taneiev, Serge I. 1962. Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style. Boston: Bruce Humphries. {GB}
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Zahn, Johannes. 1889. Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder. Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann. {Internet Archive; IMSLP}
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