Johannes Menke's compact volume on the compositional techniques of the 15th and 16th centuries, referred to as "Prima prattica," "Stile antico," or "Stylus gravis," explains how composers like Josquin, Lasso, Palestrina, and others created their works, as well as what contemporary music theorists had to say about it. Additionally, Counterpoint I highlights compositional phenomena and illustrates them not only with numerous famous examples from music history but also with newly typeset examples from historical textbooks, presented here for the first time.