Favorite Music Theory Book?

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Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music
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[james0tucson]

Hello,
I'm a little rusty on my music theory and looking for suggestions of books/ebooks for music theory in general. What are some of your favorites?

Five books that never saw the inside of a box after I finished my degree:

Elementary Harmony, and Advanced Harmony, by Robert W. Ottman.

Study of Orchestration, by Samuel Adler

Counterpoint, by Walter Piston

Structural Functions of Harmony, by Arnold Schoenberg

[herodotus]

Schoenberg's "Fundamentals of Music Composition".

"Basic Atonal Theory" by John Rahn

"The Music of Bela Bartok: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music" by Elliott Antokoletz

"The study of counterpoint": a translation and abridgement of 'Gradus ad Parnassum' by Johann Joseph Fux. (The more scholarly editions are very expensive).

[jancivil]

Nicolas Slonimsky: Thesaurus of Scales and Musical Patterns

[utterly abstract, be forewarned]