Publications
2019
Price, Perry, Mantell, Trinder and Pitts – Spontaneity and planning in arts attendance: insights from qualitative interviews and the Audience Finder database
2017
Bonshor – Confidence and choral configuration
Bonshor – The Confident Choir
Dearn – Doctoral thesis – Music, people and place entering and negotiating listening communities
Dearn and Pitts – (Un)popular music and young audiences
Hardcastle, Pitts and Arostegui – A cross-cultural comparison of music education experiences and embitions in two Spanish and English primary schools
Hield and Price – ‘Old Adam was the first man formed’
Pitts – Introduction, themed section on knowledge exchange and public engagement
Pitts – What is music education for?
Pitts and Gross – ‘Audience exchange’
Price – Doctoral thesis – Risk and reward in classical music concert attendance
2016
Bonshor – Sharing knowledge and power in adult amateur choral communities
Dearn and Price – Sharing music
Gross and Pitts – Audiences for the contemporary arts
Pitts – On the edge of their seats
Pitts – “The violin in the attic”: Investigating the long-term value of lapsed musical participation. In The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure
Pitts and Robinson – Dropping in and dropping out
2015
Gross and Pitts – Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts Report
Pitts – Fostering lifelong engagement in music, in The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development
Pitts, Robinson and Goh – Not playing any more
Price – Academic and commercial research
2014
Bonshor – Doctoral thesis – Confidence and the choral singer
Bonshor – Confidence and the choral singer. In Choral Singing: Histories and Practices
Burland and Pitts – Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience
Pitts – Musical, social and moral dilemmas: investigating audience motivations to attend concerts. In Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience
Pitts – Exploring musical expectations
2013
Pitts – Would you credit it?
Pitts – Amateurs as audiences: reciprocal relationships between playing and listening to music. In The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts
Pitts and Burland – Listening to live jazz
Pitts, Dobson, Gee and Spencer3 – Views of an audience
2012
Burland and Pitts – Rules and expectations of jazz gigs
Pitts – Chances and Choices: Exploring the Impact of Music Education
2010
Burland and Pitts – Understanding jazz audiences
Clarke, Dibben and Pitts – Music and Mind in Everyday Life
Dobson – New audiences for classical music
Dobson – Performing your self
Dobson – Doctoral thesis – Between stalls, stage and score
Gee – Doctoral thesis – Lives and careers in music
Pitts – Musical education as a social act: Learning from and within musical communities. In Navigating Sound and Music Education