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
Understanding Music as the Philosophical Focus of Music Education, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, Edited by Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega, 2012, pp. 328-345
A confusão criativa da Educação Musical Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, v.19, n.37 (2013), Educação E Músical: Diálogos Na Contemporaneidade pp.13-28
Music Education (editor), Major Themes in Education, London and New York, Routledge, 2012, pp. 1-1711