Rough evolution: monophonic Gregorian chants -> polyphony of various rules and centuries -> homophony
- Tonal Structures in Early Music
- Megan Kaes Long. Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
- The Josquin Research Project
- Joshua D. Albrecht, David Huron. A statistical approach to tracing the historical development of major and minor pitch distributions, 1400-1750
- Daniel C. Tompkins. Early Seventeenth-Century Harmonic Practice: A Corpus Study of Tonality, Modality, and Harmonic Function in Italian Secular Song with Baroque Guitar Accompaniment in Alfabeto Tablature
- Samuel Howes, 2021
- Bas Cornelissen, Willem Zuidema, John Ashley Burgoyne. Studying Large Plainchant Corpora Using chant21
- Dahlhaus Carl, Gjerdingen Robert O. Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality
- https://books.google.ge/books/about/Fourteenth_century_French_Secular_Polyph.html?id=2QffwAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y and other works of Jennifer Bain (eg. on Machaut)
- Graham Strahle. Fantasy and Music in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England
- Richard Parncutt, Daniel Reisinger, Andreas Fuchs, Fabio Kaiser. Consonance and prevalence of sonorities in Western polyphony: Roughness, harmonicity, familiarity, evenness, diatonicity
- Alexander Morgan. Automated Detection of Renaissance Cadential Voice Functions and Cadences, Renaissance Ternary Suspensions in Theory and Practice
- Karen Desmond, Emily Hopkins, Samuel Howes, Julie E. Cumming. Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, ca. 1300–1350
- Bach's Chorales
- https://partimenti.org/partimenti/about_parti/index.html
- https://www.amazon.com/Continuo-Playing-According-Handel-Exercises/dp/0193184338
- Job Ijzerman. Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento
- Derek Remeš. Compendium of Voice-Leading Patterns from the 17th and 18th Centuries to Play, Sing, and Transpose at the Keyboard
- Robert Gjerdingen. Music in the Galant Style - And the Wikipedia articles on Galant Schemata. Also Daniel Heartz. Music in European Capitals. Also L. Poundie Burstein. Journeys Through Galant Expositions
Counterpoint can be of 16th century (which is Renaissance) or 18th century (which is Baroque). Of course, there's modern counterpoint as well.
- Beth Denisch. Contemporary Counterpoint: Theory & Application
- Евдокимова Ю. К., Дубравская Т. Н., Протопопов В. В. История полифонии. В 6 вып. М., 1983-1996
- John J. Mortensen. The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation
- John J. Mortensen. Improvising Fugue
- Schoenberg on counterpoint
- Hindemith on counterpoint