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Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Music Education is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Knowing ‘how to create’ in order to know ‘how to teach’? Perceptions and conditioning of Spanish music teachers in secondary education	8
Making space for singing in the 21st century classroom – A focus group interview study with primary school music teachers in Sweden	6
The impact of teachers’ listening habits on how much listening activity is used in music lessons	6
Early twentieth-century recordings in higher music education: a preliminary analysis of the students’ views	6
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.	5
Enabling more equitable teaching of advanced GCE level (A-Level) Music in England: a partnership approach	5
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music by Edward R. McClellan, Taylor and Francis, 2023. Pbk, 182pp, £35.99. ISBN: 9781003038474	4
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: 978-01906357	4
Difference in instrumental tuition in higher music education: towards an analytical framework	3
To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music by Clint Randles. GIA Publications, 2020. 328pp., pbk, £20.99, ISBN: 978-1622774548.	3
Aspirations and limitations: the state of world music education in secondary schools in multicultural Manchester	3
An investigation into the factors influencing teachers’ inclusion of improvisation in piano lessons	3
BME volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
The Australian Music Students Health Survey: impact of past experience on student attitudes to health education	3
Culture, Creativity, and Music Education in China: Developments and Challenges by Wai-Chung Ho, 2023, Pbk, 234pp. £38.99, Routledge, ISBN 9781032397702	3
BME volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
A scoping review of empirical studies on informal music learning	2
The Swanwick/Tillman Spiral of Musical Development: impacts and influences –Guest Editorial	2
Class, Control, & Classical Music by Anna Bull. Oxford University Press, 2019. 264 pp., hardback, £47.99. ISBN: 9780190844356	2
How a young child sings a well-known song before she can speak	2
The musical lives of young children in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
BME volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Joining alone: factors that influence the musical participation of young adults after leaving school	2
Use of animated stories to improve music education practices of trainee primary school teachers in Spain	2
Developing teacher curriculum design expertise: using the CDC Model in the music classroom	2

The sequence of musical development and its place in Swanwick’s meta-theory of music education: a personal response	2
Challenges and tension fields in classical instrumental group tuition: interviews with Swedish Art and Music School teachers	1
BME volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Why did you (not) choose your main musical instrument? Exploring the motivation behind the choice – CORRIGENDUM	1
Making sense of democratisation: a case study about extracurricular music workshops in France	1
Using the model of generative change to facilitate informal music learning	1
Transforming African musics at a South African university	1
‘Because I’m not musical’: A critical case study of music education training for pre-service generalist primary teachers in Australia	1
‘Chasing every mark’. High stakes assessment and curriculum narrowing: the case of disciplinary literacy in the Irish secondary music classroom	1
Editorial	1
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 Timme	1
Reflections on New Zealand music education through the lens of Swanwick and Tillman’s model of musical development	1
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+190	1
Towards a model of playful music learning for primary classrooms: recommendations based on a review of literature	1
Students’ attitudes to school music and perceived barriers to GCSE music uptake: a phenomenographic approach	1
Creating a musical for pre-schoolers in South Africa as pedagogical praxis for a tertiary music education module	1
What’s in and what’s out of music education?	1
‘It blew my mind’. Creating spaces for integrating creativity, electroacoustic music and digital competencies for student teachers	1
Working musically with care-experienced children and their families in the early years	1
BME volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Reflections on the concept of musical development	1
BME volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Editorial	1
Editorial	1
Babysong revisited: communication with babies through song	1
The Force Field Model applied to a Music Education teacher training framework in a South African context	1