Publications

BOOKS

Popular Music and the Teacher, Pergamon, 1968

A Basis for Music Education, NFER/Nelson, 1979

Discovering Music, with Dorothy Taylor, Batsford Press, 1982

Music, Mind and Education, Routledge, 1988

Música, pensamento y educación Madrid, 1991 Ediciones Morata

Music, Mind and Education Published in Japanese, 1992

The Arts and Education 1990 Edit. Papers from NAEA, 1983‑1990

Music Education and the National Curriculum 1992, The London File: Tufnell Press

Musical Knowledge: Intuition, Analysis and Music Education, 1994, Routledge

Teaching Music Musically, 1999, London and New York: Routledge, and in Portuguese, Japanese, Russian and Farsi

Editor of Music Education, a major four-volume reference work published by Routledge in 2012

A Developing Discourse in Music Education, the selected works of Keith Swanwick, Routledge 2016

EDITOR with John Paynter

British Journal of Music Education, Cambridge University Press, 1984-1998

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

Popular Music and the Teacher, three articles in Music Teacher, Autumn, Winter, 1967, Spring, 1968

Voices or Viols? Recorder and Music June, 1969

Conducting the School Orchestra, Music in Education, September, 1969

Some Modern Myths About Music, Music Teacher, June, 1970

The Audio‑visual Stave, Music Teacher, September, 1972

Musical Cognition and Aesthetic Response, 1973, Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, No 25

Music and the Education of the Emotions, 1974, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 14, No. 2

‘Discipline’ Times Educational Supplement, 15 February, 1974

Class Music in the Secondary School ‑ Four articles in Music Teacher, March ‑ June, 1974

The Creativity Syndrome Times Educational Supplement, 19 July, 1974

The Concept of Creativity in Music Education, Education for Teaching, Autumn, 1974

Let Them Have Stones: A Perspective on the Place of Pop Music in Schools Times Educational Supplement, 3 June, 1975

A Music Curriculum Project Described and Evaluated Two articles in Music Teacher, December, 1975 and January, 1976

Can There be Objectivity in Listening to Music? Psychology of Music, February, 1975

What is Music? In Search of an Aesthetic Basis for Music Education. Three articles in Music Teacher Nov. Jan. and Feb.,

1975 & 1976

Belief and Action in Music Education, Music Education Review, Vol. 1, Chappell, 1977

Instrumental Teaching in Groups, Classical Music July, 1979

The Evaluation of Music Curriculum Activities, Music Education Review, Vol. 2, NFER, 1979

The Parameters of Music Education 1978 & 1979, Three articles in Music Teacher, November, December, 1978, January, 1979

The Challenge to Music Education in the 1980s, Australian Journal of Music Education, October, 1979

Music Education, British Music Yearbook, 1980

The Time is Ripe - the GCSE Examination, TES, 28 November, 1980

Music Education in the UK, Laboratoria Musica, Rome, 1980

British Newsletter Australian Society for Music Education, April, 1981

Towards a Musical Examination, TES, 3 April, 1981

Music Education as a Field of Study, Edited Plummeridge and Swanwick, Issues in Music Education 3, Bedford Way Papers, Institute of Education, 1981

The Relevance of Research in Music Education, International Society for Music Education, Research in Music Education, No. 2, 1982

Music in Higher Education, Australian Society for Music Education, April, 1982

International Connections, TES, 2 July, 1982

The Education of the Professional Musician, International Society for Music Education Yearbook, 1982

Music in Higher Education, chapter in The Arts and Higher Education, Gulbenkian Foundation, 1982, ed. Robinson, K.

Education and Music, The New Oxford Companion to Music, 1983

The Arts in Education: Dreaming or Wide Awake? Special Professorial Lecture, London University Institute of Education, 1983

Some Observations on Research and Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, No 1, 1983

Problems of a Sociological Approach to Pop Music in School, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1984

A Further Note on Sociology of Music Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1984

Systems, Skills and Understanding, Bulletin of the International Kodaly Society, 1985, No. 2

The Sequence of Musical Development: A Study of Childrens Composition, with June Tillman, British Journal of Music Education, Vol. 3, No. 3, November 1986. Also translated into Dutch Kunsten @ Educatie published in Utrecht 1988, Vol. 1 and 2 Also in Japanese - Japanese Music Education Research 61, 62, 63 1989‑1990

Research and Music Education, Canadian Music Educator, Dec., 1986

Inter‑cultural music, Schools Music Association Bulletin, No.100, Winter, 1986

Music Education: Encounter and Instruction, MANAMAG, Number 2, March, 1986

The National Curriculum: Implications for the Arts Editor and contributor NAEA, Take‑Up No. 6, 1988. Also published in Curriculum Vol. 9, Number 1, Spring 1988

Teacher Shortage and the PGCE, Forum, Vol. 31, Number 3, 1989

Assessment in the Arts, NAEA, Take‑Up No. 8, 1989

Music and the National Curriculum, TES, 30.6.89

Music Education in a Pluralist Society 1988, International Journal of Music Education, No. 12. Also in Swedish SPOV8 Musikpedagogik Stockholm 1989, also in Portuguese Associaçao Portuguesa de Educaçao Musical, 65, April, 1990, Sao Paulo

Teacher Education and The PGCE, Educational Research NFER, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1990

Music Education and the Education Reform Act, Musical Times, June, 1990

The Muddle Over Subject Profile Components, UKCMET Newsletter, May, 1990

Planning for the Unpredictable, British Journal of Music Education, 7,3, Keynote Address, UKCMET, November, 1990

The Necessity of Teacher Education, Chapter in Initial Teacher Education, Ed. Norman J. Graves. Kogan Page, 1990

Music Education and the Education Reform Act, Musical Times, June, 1990

Further Research on the Developmental Spiral, Psychology of Music, 19, 22-32, 1991

Musical Criticism and Musical Development, British Journal of Music Education, Vol. 8, No. 2, July, 1991

Music Curriculum development and The Concept of Features, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 25, 3, Fall, pp. 147 - 162, 1991

Musical Criticism and Music Education, Revista Musica, Vol. 2 No.2, 1991

Appraising Appraisal, Music Teacher, December, 1991

The Key of Knowledge, TES, 13, 3, 1992

Evolución Musical y Plan de Estudios de Musica, Papers, Fundación ‘la Caixa’, December, 1992, Barcelona, 8-10

Music Education and the Dimensions of Criticism in Education, Studi e Testi 1: Secondo Convegno Europeo di Analisi Musicale, 1992 Ed. Dalmonte and Baroni University of Trento, Italy

The Nature of Musical Knowledge, Tossal: Revista Interdepartmental de Investigación Educativa University of Alicante, Spain, December, 1992, pp. 3 -10

What Makes Music Musical? Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought, Ed. Paynter et al, Routledge, pp. 82-104, 1992

Music Education and Ethnomusicology, British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Vol. 1, 137-144, 1992

Musical Knowledge: The Saga of Music in the National Curriculum, Psychology of Music, 1992 20, 162-179 @ 177-179

Guidelines on Music in the National Curriculum, UK Council for Music Education and Training, 1993

Teacher Education in Music: Is it really necessary? Is it really possible? Music Teacher Training in the Year 2000 - Three European Perspectives. 1993 University of Göteborg, pp. 31-45

Music Curriculum Development and The Concept of Features, Philosopher, Teacher, Musician: Perspectives on Music Education, Ed. Jorgensen, E. R., University of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 147-162

An Historical Perspective on the Theory of Creativity and Music Education, Art 020, Revista da Escola de Musica da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 1993, pp. 51-53

The Reform of Teacher Education and the Status of Music, Yes, No. 18, 1994

The Reform of Teacher Education in England, Research Studies in Music Education, 1994, USQ Press, Australia No. 2, June, pp. 2-7

Qualitative Research: The Relationship of Intuition and Analysis, Bulletin, Council for Research in Music Education, Fall, 1994

pp. 57-69

Intuition and Analysis in the Arts, Essays in Arts and Aesthetic Education, Vol. 12, June 1994, Univ. of Exeter, 16-36

Teaching Music Through an Instrument, TOSSAL, Vol 2-3, 1994, University of Alicante, 171-177

Music and the National Curriculum in Primary Schools, with Lawson and Plummeridge British Journal of Music Education, 11. 1. March 1994, 4-15

Authenticity and the Reality of Musical Experience, Musical Connections; Tradition and Change, Proceedings of the 21st World Conference of International Society for Music Education, 1994, 215-226

Music Education: Is There Life Beyond School, Finnish Journal of Music Education, 1996 Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 41-45

Teaching and Assessing, Special Research Interest Group: Measurement and Evaluation, Music Educators National Conference, USA, Number 18, Winter 1996 pp. 6-9

Noble ambitions starved of funds, TES, 30 June, 1995

The Relevance of Research for Music Education, Chapter in: Music Education: Trends and Issues, Institute of Education, 1996, ISBN 0 85473 4732, pp. 5-26.

Theory, Data and Educational Relevance, Research Studies in Music Education, Number 6, Australia, June 1996, pp. 18 - 26.

Music Education Liberated From New Praxis, International Journal of Music Education, November, 1996, 28, pp. 16-24

Teaching Music Musically: KeyNote Address to the Organisation of American Kodaly Educators, Kodaly Envoy, 22.3, Spring 1996, pp. 4‑9

Assessing Musical Quality in the National Curriculum, British Journal of Music Education, 14.3, November, 1997, 205-216

False Notes, TES, 14 November, 1997

Autenticidad Y Realidad De La Experiencia Musical, in La Transformación de la Educación Musical a las Puertas del Siglo XXI, Ed. Violeta Hemsy de Gainza, Buenos Aires: Editorial Guadalupe

Research and Music Education, PGCE, Teaching Music in Secondary Schools, Prepared for the Open University, The Open University, E889, 1996, pp. 1-17

The Perils and Possibilities of Assessment, Research Studies in Music Education, 10, June 1998, pp. 1-11

Composing, performing and audience-listening as indicators of musical understanding, British Journal of Music Education, Vol 16 No. 1 1999, pp. 3-17, Keith Swanwick and Cecilia Cavalieri França.

‘Authentic’ music and its effect on the attitudes and musical development of secondary school students, Music Education Research, Vol 1 No 1, 1999, pp. 47-60 Keith Swanwick and Dorothy Lawson

Music education: closed or open? Journal of Aesthetic Education, Autumn 1999

Music making and Music Teaching as Thoughtful Action, in Music Education as Praxix: Reflecting on Music-Making as Human Action, ed McCarthy 1999 (IBSN 0-9655233-2-2), University of Maryland pp. 26-40

Quality, value and authenticity in dance and music, in Asian Music and Dance: Educational Perspectives, ed. Dairanathan, E., 1999 (ISSB: 981 0401608 3) pp. 106-113

Ensinar Música Musicalmente: Música ciomo cultura – o espaço intermédio. Educação Musical, Associaçã Portuguesa Educação Musical, No 104, March 2000, pp. 4-11, SRIP No. 109959.

Music education - where now? in Routledge International Companion to Education, pp. 970-980, ISBN 0-415-11814-X

Musical technology and the interpretation of heritage, International Journal of Music Education, 2001, 37, 32-43, ISSN 0255-7614

Music development theories revisited, Music Education Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 2001, 227-242, ISSN 1461-3808

An Overview, Mapping Music Education Research in the UK, BERA Music Education Review Group, October 2001, 13, 6-8, ISBN 0 946671, British Educational Research Association.

Teaching Music Musically, Revista de Performance Musical, 2001, Vol. 4, 29–36 ISSN: 1517-7599 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Runfola, M., & Swanwick, K. (2002). Developmental characteristics of music learners. In R. Colwell & C. Richardson (Eds.), The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (373-397). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Metaphor and the Mission of the Arts, in Bresler, L (ed), 2007, International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, Vol. 1 (Ed,.) Springer, Dordrecht, 497-502, ISBN 978-14020-4857-9.

The ‘good-enough’ music teacher, British Journal of Music. Education 2008, 25 (1), 9 – 22

Reflection, theory and practice, British Journal of Music Education, 2008, 25 (3), 223-232

Musical Development: Revisiting a Generic Theory, in MENC Handbook of Research in Music Learning Volume 1: Strategies, R. Colwell and P. Webster, Editors. 2011, Oxford University Press. pp. 140-172