A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

"The purpose of this work is to supply the need in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music of a text-book on Simple Counterpoint containing a definite assignment of lessons, and affording more practice than usual in combining species. It is a treatise on strict counterpoint, but strict in a limited sense only. In two-part counterpoint with other than the first species in both parts, dissonances are permitted under certain conditions, and in three-and four-part writing the unprepared seventh and ninth, and the six-four chord, are allowed in certain ways."