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ISME Website History Standing Committee IHME Homepage UNITED KINGDOM - Bibliographic Resources   Selected References for Further Reading  Complied by Gordon Cox Allsobrook, D.I. (1992) Music for Wales: Walford Davies and the National Music Council 1918-1941. Cardiff: University of Wales.  Cox, G. (1993) A History of Music Education in England 1882-1928. Aldershot: Ashgate.  Cox, G. (2001) A House Divided? Music Education in the United Kingdom during the Schools Council era of the 1970s, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education XXII (2), pp.160-175.  Cox, G. (2002) Living Music in Schools 1923-1999: Studies in the History of Music Education in England. Aldershot: Ashgate.  Cox, G. ed. (2003) Sir Arthur Somervell on Music Education: His writings, speeches and letters. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.  Cox, G. (2005) Inspecting the Teaching of Singing in the Teacher Training Colleges of England, Wales and Scotland 1883-1899, Research Studies in Music Education 24, pp. 17-27.  Cox, G. (2011) Britain: Towards ‘a long overdue renaissance?’ in G.Cox and R.Stevens (eds) The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: Cross-Cultural Historical Studies of Music in Compulsory Schooling. London: Continuum, pp. 15-28.  Dibble, J. (2007) John Stainer: A Life in Music. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.   Finney, J. (2011) Music Education in England, 1950-2010: The Child-Centred Progressive Tradition. Aldershot: Ashgate.  Lynch, M. (2001) Towards the abolition of ‘payment by results’: the end of school music or an opportunity for further development as reported in School Music Review 1892-1901? British Journal of Music Education 18(2), 187-193.  Lynch, M. (2003) The training of specialist secondary school teachers in England, 1945-75, British Journal of Music Education 20(1), 61-71.  Lynch, M. (2010) Music in the training colleges of England and Wales 1872-1899: perspectives from HMI, British Journal of Music Education 27(2), pp. 171-184.   Pitts, S. (2000) A Century of Change in Music Education: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Practice. Aldershot: Ashgate.   McGuire, C.E. (2009) Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Rainbow, B. with G.Cox (2006) Music in Educational Thought and Practice. 2nd edition. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.  Rainbow, B. (1980/2010) John Curwen: A Short Critical Biography. Borough Green: Novello. Also in Rainbow 2010.  Rainbow, B. (2009) Four Centuries of Music Teaching Manuals 1518-1932. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2nd ed.  Rainbow, B. (2010) Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoir and Selected Writings. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.  Symes, C. (2004) ‘A sound education: the gramophone and the classroom in the United Kingdom and the United States, 1920-1940’, British Journal of Music Education 21(2), 163-178. Gallery of Prominent Music Educators Bibliographic Resources Overview ISME Website History Standing Committee IHME Homepage Copyright © 2014 History Standing Committee, International Society for Music Education (ISME)