HPR1512: Adopting and Renovating a Public-Domain Counterpoint Textbook

In this episode I discuss the problem of increasingly expensive college textbooks, and share with you the solution I devised to combat the problem in my counterpoint class at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Part of the solution is to adopt a public-domain textbook that's more than 100 years old, and to give the text a 21st-century makeover that I believe will make it even better-suited for the digital age than any other comparable book in the market at any price.

https://jonathankulp.org/gratis.html: The counterpoint page on my website, with source files and information about my creative-commons counterpoint workbook, "Gratis ad Parnassum," as well as links to the 1910 counterpoint textbook by Percy Goetschius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Goetschius entitled "Exercises in Elementary Counterpoint."

My html version of the Goetschius textbook (in progress): https://jonkulp.net/350/Goetschius/goetschius.html

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