Adam is currently engaged in a range of research projects exploring the work of music education hubs around the country, with a particular focus on Whole Class Ensemble Teaching. He is also involved in the evaluation of Youth Music’s Exchanging Notes project, and the Go Compose initiative supported by Sound and Music.
He also co-leads the Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen study group (REMOSS), which is hosted at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He recently acted as co-editor (with Dr James Cook and Dr Alexander Kolassa) for a collected volume of essays Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen, and regularly gives talks on historical musicology.
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, 2018)
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): Fautley, Whittaker and Kinsella, ‘The Benefits of Whole Class Ensemble Tuition In KS2’, published in Teach Primary 20th March 2018 (accessed 22 March 2018).
Agency REPORT: Fautley, Kinsella, and Whittaker, Exchanging Notes Interim Report: Year 3, published by Youth Music (accessed 20th February 2018)
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: Whittaker, Cook, Kolassa, ‘Introduction’, in Recomposing the Past: Representations of Music on Stage and Screen, ed. Adam Whittaker, James Cook, and Alexander 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: Fautley & Whittaker, Key Data on Music Education Hubs 2016, published by Department for Education and Arts Council England in late 2017. Authorial contribution is equally weighted.
Agency REPORT: Fautley, Kinsella, Whittaker, Whole Class Ensemble Teaching Research Report, to be published by Music Mark UK and Arts Council England. 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., paperback. £22.95. 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.
