Dr Adam Whittaker

Head of Pedagogy and Lecturer in Music

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Email:: adam.whittaker@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: 0121 331 6588

Adam is Head of Pedagogy and a Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, having previously worked as a Research Fellow in BCU’s CSPACE, and at the University of Nottingham. Adam is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an internationally recognised scholar in musicology and music education, having been an invited speaker at Heidelberg University, All Souls College (Oxford), and the Royal College of Music. He has researched widely in the fields of music education and musicology, and has taught music in a range of settings. He has been involved in research projects examining the reception history of early music, and completed his doctorate on aspects of musical exemplarity in Johannes Tinctoris’s (c. 1435–1511) notational treatises. He is interested in the ways in which musical pedagogies have changed over time, and what these changes can tell us about our current pedagogical approaches. His work has been published in leading academic journals and book publications. He was recently a panellist on an edition of BBC Radio 3’s 'Music Matters' dedicated to music education, and has provided comment for national newspapers. In Autumn 2019 Adam will take up the Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellowship in Music at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, giving him privileged access to rare books and manuscripts held in the Bodleian Special Collections.

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

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

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