Some Counterpoint Books

Hey everyone!

I recently......aquired..let's say... some counterpoint books, and before i crack any open, i wanted to know if a) anyone one here has heard of any of these, and b) which would be the best to read.

The books (on counterpoint) i have are:

Elementary Counterpoint by Horwood Frederick

Counterpoint, 4th ed. by Kennan Kent

Counterpoint for Beginners by Kitson C H

Mahler and Bach Counterpoint and Polarities in Form by Kwon Songtaik

Foundation studies in Fugue by Norden Hugo

Fundamental Counterpoint by Norden Hugo

Counterpoint (1970) by Piston Walter

Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint by Arnold Schoenberg (is this the same as the composer?)

and

Two-Voice Counterpoint....by...unknown?

The one that catches my eye is the Mahler and Bach Counterpoint by Songtaik, mainly because Bach was a freaking beast :P

thanks guys!

Mathieu

The Kennan book was helpful for me.

Walter Piston's books (on orchestration, counterpoint, etc) are MASSIVE. I don't think they are teaching texts much less good sources for self-teaching.

Haven't heard of the other books.

well i started reading the hugo book "foundation studies in fugue" its pretty short... ~86 pages, and it seems pretty straight forward, which is how i like to learn :P haha i'll look at the others as well.