British Journal of Music Education

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Music Education is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views12
Knowing ‘how to create’ in order to know ‘how to teach’? Perceptions and conditioning of Spanish music teachers in secondary education11
Enabling more equitable teaching of advanced GCE level (A-Level) Music in England: a partnership approach10
The impact of teachers’ listening habits on how much listening activity is used in music lessons10
Experiencing Music Technology - Experiencing Music Technology (Fourth Edition) by David Brian Williams and Peter Richard Webster, Oxford University Press, 2022. Pbk, 576pp. £82.45. ISBN: 978-019063578
Making space for singing in the 21st century classroom – A focus group interview study with primary school music teachers in Sweden8
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account - Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by Graham J. McPhail . Routledge, 2023. Hbk, 256pp, £130. ISBN: 9781032292519.6
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music by Edward R. McClellan, Taylor and Francis, 2023. Pbk, 182pp, £35.99. ISBN: 97810030384746
Inclusion and exclusion in music education through the eyes of Utu5
Difference in instrumental tuition in higher music education: towards an analytical framework5
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester4
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To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music by Clint Randles. GIA Publications, 2020. 328pp., pbk, £20.99, ISBN: 978-1622774548.4
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Editorial music and inclusion: philosophies, practices and possibilities4
The Australian Music Students Health Survey: impact of past experience on student attitudes to health education4
An investigation into the factors influencing teachers’ inclusion of improvisation in piano lessons4
Culture, Creativity, and Music Education in China: Developments and Challenges by Wai-Chung Ho, 2023, Pbk, 234pp. £38.99, Routledge, ISBN 97810323977024
Developing teacher curriculum design expertise: using the CDC Model in the music classroom3
Use of animated stories to improve music education practices of trainee primary school teachers in Spain3
The musical lives of young children in Aotearoa New Zealand3
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak3
BME volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Joining alone: factors that influence the musical participation of young adults after leaving school3
A scoping review of empirical studies on informal music learning3
Challenges and tension fields in classical instrumental group tuition: interviews with Swedish Art and Music School teachers2
Music Schools in Changing Societies: How Collaborative Professionalism Can Transform Music Education edited by Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk and Heidi Westerlund, New York, Routledge, 2024, 234pp. $35 2
BJME book review, Dec 2022: Elizabeth Haddon - Sound Teaching: A Research-Informed Approach to Inspiring Confidence, Skill, and Enjoyment in Music Performance edited by Henrique Meissner, Renee Timme2
Comparing Chinese and English primary school students’ singing behaviour by age and sex2
Mr. Murray Schafer, listen, they are talking about you: a systematic review of the conceptual representations of your ideas in the context of 21st-century education2
Working musically with care-experienced children and their families in the early years2
Editorial2
Learn Faster,Perform Better: A Musician’s Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing by Molly Gebrian. Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pages. ISBN: 97801976800702
Secondary Music Leader’s Handbook Dan Francis and Elizabeth Stafford Collins Music, London 2025 ISBN 978-0-00-875983-42
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T. Laes, G. Biesta and H. Westerlund (Eds.) (2025). The Transformative Politics of Music Education. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-49495-11
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Moving away from the habitus? Narrative accounts from classically trained student secondary school music teachers in Wales1
‘To every thing turn turn turn’: a commentary on new materialisms in (early childhood) music education1
Exploring implementation of the UK Misogyny in Music report’s recommendations to address gender inequalities in music education in England1
What’s in and what’s out of music education?1
‘Because I’m not musical’: A critical case study of music education training for pre-service generalist primary teachers in Australia1
Accessing musical and curriculum literacies: historical echoes for music teacher practices in the English secondary school1
Transforming African musics at a South African university1
‘It blew my mind’. Creating spaces for integrating creativity, electroacoustic music and digital competencies for student teachers1
Towards a model of playful music learning for primary classrooms: recommendations based on a review of literature1
Babysong revisited: communication with babies through song1
Teacher professional development and educational innovation through action research in conservatoire education in the Netherlands1
Songs that live in the bones1
Students’ attitudes to school music and perceived barriers to GCSE music uptake: a phenomenographic approach1
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice – CORRIGENDUM1
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Editorial1
Debates in Music Teaching, edited by Chris Philpott and Gary Spruce. 2nd edition, 1 August 2025. 380 pp, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810034395781
Using the model of generative change to facilitate informal music learning1
BME volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
What is attractive about becoming a music teacher? Exploring the motivations of pre-service music teachers towards the profession0
Secondary choral students’ and preservice music educators’ perceptions of a service-learning experience in the United States: An action research study0
Power relations in the music teaching studio0
Five years in: a case study of an Australian early-career secondary school music teacher0
Review of: Inside the Contemporary Conservatoire: Critical Perspectives from the Royal College of Music, London0
Beginning music teachers’ perspectives on the effectiveness of a music teacher preparation programme in South Korea0
Improvisation pedagogy: what can be learned from off-task sounds and the art of the musical heckle?0
The times, they are a-changing: Australian secondary classroom music teachers reflect on their early career 40 years on0
Compassionate care in disabled people’s music engagement and learning0
Demystifying adaptive music instruction: insights from music adaptation plans0
Defining music demonstration lessons: a unique performance-based lesson type improving teachers’ instructional skills in Chinese mainland education0
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice0
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Navigating the intersection of generative artificial intelligence and democratic pedagogy in music education in Macau0
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The common denominator: the case for an anthropocentric music education0
Inclusive music practices for students with a disability: fore-fronting participatory and agentic teacher practices0
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Preparing conservatoire students for the music education workforce: conversations with alumni0
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‘NAOUIEDCT’ and ‘RCSSEOEUR’: harmonising complexity in the South African landscape of music literacy education in secondary schools0
BME volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Curriculum and assessment in music education0
Impact of studying practical instrumental music on the psychological well-being of disadvantaged university students0
Investigating the impact of volunteering with Melody Music Birmingham on the professional development and career pathways of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire students0
Rethinking pedagogic identities for Key Stage 3 general classroom music teacher education: an autoethnographic study0
Unpacking musical improvisation: Implementation and evaluation by primary music teachers in the Netherlands0
Editorial – What do we know in music education?0
Editorial: What is music education for?0
Understanding and managing music performance anxiety: perspectives from studio teachers in Australia0
Proposing and piloting a criterion- and standard-based assessment framework in teaching Cantonese operatic singing in Guangdong, China0
Impact of musical training in specialised centres on learning strategies, auditory discrimination and working memory in adolescents0
Economic rationale shaping music teacher education: the case of Spain0
Laptop computer as instrument in music performance lessons: issues and opportunities0
Musical participation and nonparticipation at the intercultural school: a study from Ireland0
Thinking Community Music by Lee Higgins. Oxford University Press, 2024. 210 pp, paperback £19.99 ISBN: 9780190246990, DOI: 10.1093/9780190247027.001.00010
Music Making and Civic Imagination: A Holistic Philosophy by Dave Camlin. Intellect Books, Music, Community, and Education series, October 2023 (Hardback0
The personal and professional identity of secondary classroom music teachers in England0
‘Singing is my superpower’ experiences of Austrian males in school choral music0
Unfreezing Music Education: Critical Formalism and Possibilities for Self-reflexive Music Learning, by Paul Louth, New York, Routledge, 2023, 209 pp., $235 (hardback), ISBN 97810324059880
Instrumental Music Teaching: Perspectives and Challenges Edited by Nick Beach and Gary Spruce. Trinity College London Press Ltd (2024), ISBN 978-1-80490-298-10
Exploring issues in categorisation of higher music education courses through FOI surveys of gender demographics in UK higher education institutions0
East Asian-Australian preservice and early career music teachers and their heritage music in New South Wales schools: a case study0
Enjoyment of music and GCSE uptake: survey findings from three North East schools in England0
Transitioning from music teacher education to professional life: spatially situated possible selves0
Career challenges: an exploration into potential barriers faced by Scottish emerging composers0
‘Everybody should have the chance to play’: a conversation reflecting on the challenges and opportunities for enhancing inclusivity in music education in England0
Improvising on a Theme: The story of the Birmingham Music Service - Improvising on a Theme: The story of the Birmingham Music Service by Cormac Loane. UCL IOE Press. 2020. Pbk, 200pp. £23.99, ISBN: 90
How do you learn to be a music producer? Youth, access and musical engagement beyond formal schooling0
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Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea0
The new Cypriot music curriculum: teachers’ interpretation and implementation of differentiation0
Knowledge and music education: a social realist account - Re-Imagining Curricula in Global Times: A Music Education Perspective by Jennifer M. Mellizo, 2023, Germany: Springer International Publishing0
William Salaman 1940–20230
The power of rap in music education: a study of undergraduate students’ original rap creations0
Everyday musical interactions among children and their parents in Spain: a comparison between their musical experiences and parental perceptions0
(Re)conceptualising an integrated music education ecosystem in England0
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Long-term impacts of cathedral choral training on female choristers’ lives and careers0
Musical Vulnerability: Receptivity, Susceptibility, and Care in the Music Classroom, by Elizabeth MacGregor, Routledge, 2025. 232 Pages. ISBN 97810326115320
Gender representation in undergraduate music technology education: case studies from Aotearoa/New Zealand0
Playing together: staff perspectives of music-making with people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities0
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Music teaching in primary schools of Albacete, Spain, during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Learning music theorising through inspiration and curiosity. Insights from emergent lesson design in an upper secondary school in Finland0
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views0
Signs of the times: the Canterbury children’s operas of Alan Ridout0
Current state and prospects of teaching-learning processes in music teacher education in Spain: a literature review0
Editorial 20230
Digitally mediated collaboration and participation: composing 10,427 miles and 11 hours apart0
K. A. Parkes, and R. Daniel (Eds) (2025). The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-003-42644-80
Exploring the potential of informal music learning in a perceived age of pedagogical traditionalism for student teachers in primary music education0
Is music on the wane? A small mixed methods study exploring musical learning in the school reception class in the East of England0
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Ethnomusicology, entrepreneurialism and the Western classical music student0
Different forms of students’ motivation and musical creativity in secondary school0
Collaborative thinking across borders0
Music on the move: understanding music as otherwise knowledge in early childhood0
Forty years of the General Certificate of Secondary Education: analysing the role of the performing–composing–appraising examination structure in secondary music education in England, Wales, and North0
Perspectives on early childhood music: Guest Editorial0
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Entangled musicianship: rethinking music education and digital musical interactions through posthumanist theory0
The hidden costs of educational reform: w(h)ither music education research in England0
The role of negative emotions in learning music: qualitative understanding of Australian undergraduate students’ listening experience of unfamiliar music0
Self-assessment of student motivation to participate in general music classes in an upper primary school in Croatia0
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Silent stages: COVID-19 as a catalyst for change in Canadian El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programmes0
Incidental professional development in music education for generalist teaching staff through supporting pupils in expert-led authentic music projects0
The leaky pipeline: gender ratios in UK brass playing0
Does learning to play an instrument have an impact on change in attainment from age 11 to 16?0
A comparison of teachers’ musical abilities between public and private kindergartens in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China0
Where neoliberalism and neoconservatism meet: the inception and reception of a Model Music Curriculum for English Schools0
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