PhD in Music
PGCert
BA (Hons) – Music
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Adam leads the pedagogy curriculum for BMus 1–3, and teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum at RBC. His current modules include:
- BMus 1: Community Engagement
- BMus 2: Community Engagement
- BMus 3: Pedagogy and Planning
- MMus: Lecture Recital
Adam currently supervises masters and doctoral students. He is always interested to hear from students interested in exploring related areas of research.
Forthcoming
ARTICLE: Tinctoris and signa congruentiae: a new perspective. Early Music History (Autumn 2019)
CHAPTER: Reading Tinctoris’s Readers: Hints at Musical Reading Practices in Johannes Tinctoris’s Notational Treatises, in Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, ed. Ronald Woodley, Jeffrey J. Dean, and Christian Goursaud (Épitome musical; Turnhout: Brepols, 2019)
Published
ARTICLE: Investigating the canon in A-Level music: Musical prescription in A-level music syllabuses (for first examination in 2018), British Journal of Music Education. DOI:10.1017/S0265051718000256
ARTICLE: A plague of medievalism on you all: music, medievalism and the plague, Studies in Medievalism (Spring 2018)
ARTICLE (magazine): The Benefits of Whole Class Ensemble Tuition In KS2, Fautley, Whittaker and Kinsella, published in Teach Primary 20th March 2018
Agency REPORT: Exchanging Notes Interim Report: Year 3, Fautley, Kinsella, and Whittaker, published by Youth Music
CHAPTER: Dividing the Sacred and Secular: A View Through the Hunchback, in Recomposing the Past: Representations of Music on Stage and Screen, ed. Adam Whittaker, James Cook, and Alexander Kolassa (Routledge, 2018), pp. 89–106
CHAPTER: Introduction in Recomposing the Past: Representations of Music on Stage and Screen, Whittaker, Cook, Kolassa, (Routledge, 2018), pp. 1–14. Authorial contribution is equally weighted
CHAPTER: Whittaker, Cook, Kolassa, ‘Music in Fantasy Pasts: Neomedievalism and Game of Thrones’, in Recomposing the Past: Representations of Music on Stage and Screen, ed. Adam Whittaker, James Cook, and Alexander Kolassa (Routledge, 2018), pp. 229–250. Authorial contribution is equally weighted.
Agency REPORT: Key Data on Music Education Hubs 2016, published by Department for Education and Arts Council England in late 2017, Fautley & Whittaker. Authorial contribution is equally weighted.
Agency REPORT: Whole Class Ensemble Teaching Research Report, to be published by Music Mark UK and Arts Council England, Fautley, Kinsella, Whittaker. Authorial contribution is equally weighted.
ARTICLE: Signposting Mutation in some Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Music Theory Treatises, Plainsong & Medieval Music, 26/1 (2017), pp. 37–61. DOI: 10.1017/S0961137116000097.
REVIEW: ‘Taught by the Students: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Deep Engagement in Music Education by Ruth Gurgel. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 161pp., ISBN 978-1-4758-1339-5’ in British Journal of Music Education, 34/1 (2017), pp. 119-121. DOI: 10.1017/S0265051716000425
Adam works with Arts Council England on the annual national analysis of Music Education Hub data returns, and has acted on a team of evaluators for a range of music education organisations such as Youth Music, Sound and Music, and Birmingham Music Service.
