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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enabling more equitable teaching of advanced GCE level (A-Level) Music in England: a partnership approach9
The impact of teachers’ listening habits on how much listening activity is used in music lessons9
Knowing ‘how to create’ in order to know ‘how to teach’? Perceptions and conditioning of Spanish music teachers in secondary education9
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views9
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: 978-019063577
An investigation into the factors influencing teachers’ inclusion of improvisation in piano lessons7
Making space for singing in the 21st century classroom – A focus group interview study with primary school music teachers in Sweden7
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: 9781032292519.7
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music by Edward R. McClellan, Taylor and Francis, 2023. Pbk, 182pp, £35.99. ISBN: 97810030384746
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester4
BME volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music by Clint Randles. GIA Publications, 2020. 328pp., pbk, £20.99, ISBN: 978-1622774548.4
Difference in instrumental tuition in higher music education: towards an analytical framework4
BME volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
The Australian Music Students Health Survey: impact of past experience on student attitudes to health education4
Culture, Creativity, and Music Education in China: Developments and Challenges by Wai-Chung Ho, 2023, Pbk, 234pp. £38.99, Routledge, ISBN 97810323977024
BME volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak3
A scoping review of empirical studies on informal music learning3
Joining alone: factors that influence the musical participation of young adults after leaving school3
The musical lives of young children in Aotearoa New Zealand3
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
Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre. Series: SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music, by Guro Gravem Johansen. Routledge, 2021. xiv+1903
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
Editorial2
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
‘It blew my mind’. Creating spaces for integrating creativity, electroacoustic music and digital competencies for student teachers2
Working musically with care-experienced children and their families in the early years2
Challenges and tension fields in classical instrumental group tuition: interviews with Swedish Art and Music School teachers2
BME volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
BME volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
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
Learn Faster,Perform Better: A Musician’s Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing by Molly Gebrian. Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pages. ISBN: 97801976800702
‘Because I’m not musical’: A critical case study of music education training for pre-service generalist primary teachers in Australia1
Using the model of generative change to facilitate informal music learning1
What’s in and what’s out of music education?1
Transforming African musics at a South African university1
Towards a model of playful music learning for primary classrooms: recommendations based on a review of literature1
Editorial1
Songs that live in the bones1
Babysong revisited: communication with babies through song1
Moving away from the habitus? Narrative accounts from classically trained student secondary school music teachers in Wales1
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice – CORRIGENDUM1
Accessing musical and curriculum literacies: historical echoes for music teacher practices in the English secondary school1
Teacher professional development and educational innovation through action research in conservatoire education in the Netherlands1
‘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
Students’ attitudes to school music and perceived barriers to GCSE music uptake: a phenomenographic approach1
BME volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
T. Laes, G. Biesta and H. Westerlund (Eds.) (2025). The Transformative Politics of Music Education. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-49495-11
Power relations in the music teaching studio0
Time for change? Recurrent barriers to music education0
East Asian-Australian preservice and early career music teachers and their heritage music in New South Wales schools: a case study0
Self-assessment of student motivation to participate in general music classes in an upper primary school in Croatia0
Enjoyment of music and GCSE uptake: survey findings from three North East schools in England0
Collaborative thinking across borders0
The common denominator: the case for an anthropocentric music education0
Defining music demonstration lessons: a unique performance-based lesson type improving teachers’ instructional skills in Chinese mainland education0
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
BME volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Does learning to play an instrument have an impact on change in attainment from age 11 to 16?0
Proposing and piloting a criterion- and standard-based assessment framework in teaching Cantonese operatic singing in Guangdong, China0
Curriculum and assessment in music education0
Impact of studying practical instrumental music on the psychological well-being of disadvantaged university students0
The hidden costs of educational reform: w(h)ither music education research in England0
Editorial0
Music teaching in primary schools of Albacete, Spain, during the COVID-19 pandemic0
BME volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
A comparison of teachers’ musical abilities between public and private kindergartens in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China0
Investigating the impact of volunteering with Melody Music Birmingham on the professional development and career pathways of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire students0
What is attractive about becoming a music teacher? Exploring the motivations of pre-service music teachers towards the profession0
Where neoliberalism and neoconservatism meet: the inception and reception of a Model Music Curriculum for English Schools0
BME volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Music Making and Civic Imagination: A Holistic Philosophy by Dave Camlin. Intellect Books, Music, Community, and Education series, October 2023 (Hardback0
Economic rationale shaping music teacher education: the case of Spain0
Current state and prospects of teaching-learning processes in music teacher education in Spain: a literature review0
Editorial 20230
‘NAOUIEDCT’ and ‘RCSSEOEUR’: harmonising complexity in the South African landscape of music literacy education in secondary schools0
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
Exploring the potential of informal music learning in a perceived age of pedagogical traditionalism for student teachers in primary music education0
Preparing conservatoire students for the music education workforce: conversations with alumni0
BME volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Transitioning from music teacher education to professional life: spatially situated possible selves0
The personal and professional identity of secondary classroom music teachers in England0
Different forms of students’ motivation and musical creativity in secondary school0
BME volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Long-term impacts of cathedral choral training on female choristers’ lives and careers0
Rethinking pedagogic identities for Key Stage 3 general classroom music teacher education: an autoethnographic study0
Music on the move: understanding music as otherwise knowledge in early childhood0
BME volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Is music on the wane? A small mixed methods study exploring musical learning in the school reception class in the East of England0
BME volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Everyday musical interactions among children and their parents in Spain: a comparison between their musical experiences and parental perceptions0
Investigating how composing teaching and assessment in English secondary school classrooms reinforce myths about composers and their creative practices0
BME volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
BME volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
BME volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Perspectives on early childhood music: Guest Editorial0
BME volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
The Instrumental Music Teacher: Autonomy, Identity and the Portfolio Career in Music by Kerry Boyle . International Society for Music Education (ISME) Global Perspectives in Music Education. Abingdon:0
Signs of the times: the Canterbury children’s operas of Alan Ridout0
Secondary choral students’ and preservice music educators’ perceptions of a service-learning experience in the United States: An action research study0
Beginning music teachers’ perspectives on the effectiveness of a music teacher preparation programme in South Korea0
Learning music theorising through inspiration and curiosity. Insights from emergent lesson design in an upper secondary school in Finland0
Improvisation pedagogy: what can be learned from off-task sounds and the art of the musical heckle?0
How do teachers of primary school approach the music assessment in Chile? Differences and similarities between professors’ experience and ministerial guidelines0
Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea0
Digitally mediated collaboration and participation: composing 10,427 miles and 11 hours apart0
Exploring issues in categorisation of higher music education courses through FOI surveys of gender demographics in UK higher education institutions0
Ethnomusicology, entrepreneurialism and the Western classical music student0
Gender representation in undergraduate music technology education: case studies from Aotearoa/New Zealand0
BME volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Navigating the intersection of generative artificial intelligence and democratic pedagogy in music education in Macau0
Career challenges: an exploration into potential barriers faced by Scottish emerging composers0
BME volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Editorial: What is music education for?0
BME volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice0
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
Laptop computer as instrument in music performance lessons: issues and opportunities0
The new Cypriot music curriculum: teachers’ interpretation and implementation of differentiation0
The role of negative emotions in learning music: qualitative understanding of Australian undergraduate students’ listening experience of unfamiliar music0
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
The power of rap in music education: a study of undergraduate students’ original rap creations0
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
BME volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views0
Editorial – What do we know in music education?0
Impact of musical training in specialised centres on learning strategies, auditory discrimination and working memory in adolescents0
Review of: Inside the Contemporary Conservatoire: Critical Perspectives from the Royal College of Music, London0
BME volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Five years in: a case study of an Australian early-career secondary school music teacher0
‘Singing is my superpower’ experiences of Austrian males in school choral music0
William Salaman 1940–20230
The times, they are a-changing: Australian secondary classroom music teachers reflect on their early career 40 years on0
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