Publications
Book chapters
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. & Kiilu, K. (forthcoming, 2021). Singing and traditions in Icelandic and Estonian childhoods. In (Eds.: Graham Welch & Margareth Barrett) The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Music Learning and Development: Music with young children in family and community cultures. Oxford University Press.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R., Switala, A., Konkol, G. (forthcoming, 2021). Composition in music education in Iceland and Poland: Perspectives on creativity and composition. In (Eds. Joana Grow & Anette Ziegenmeyer) International perspectives on composition pedagogy.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2019). An Icelandic perspective on the Nordic music education community. In (Eds. David G. Hebert and Torunn Bakken-Hauge) Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. An Icelandic perspective on the Nordic Music Education Community Chapter 6 HelgaRutGudmundsdottir_2019_final
Trehub, S. E. and Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2015). Mothers as Singing Mentors for Infants. The Oxford Handbook of Singing. Edited by Graham Welch, David M. Howard, and John Nix TrehubGudmundsdottirOxfordHandbook2015
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2015). Musikalisk kompetens i början av livet – perception, cognition och kommunikation. In: Hofvander Trulson, Y. & Houmann, A. (Eds.) Musik och lärande i barnets värld. Studentlitteratur.
Peer-reviewed articles
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. & Gunnlaugsdottir, F. (2021). Hin óttablandna virðing [Tansl.: Awesome respect or respectful awe? On conventional practices in music teaching and learning. Netla – Veftímarit um uppeldi og menntun. https://ojs.hi.is/netla/article/view/3381/2044
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2020). First published online 2018. Revisiting singing proficiency in 3-year-olds. Psychology of Music, 48(2), 283-296, https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618798031 (published online)
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2020). Early singing acquisition. In (Eds. Helga R. Gudmundsdottir, Carol Beynon, Karen Ludke and Annabel Cohen,) Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume II: Education, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R., & Trehub, S. (2018). Adults recognize toddlers’ songs. Psychology of Music, 46(2), 155-173, (doi: 10.1177/0305735617711762).
Gudmundsdottir, H. R., & Trehub, S. (2018). Adults recognize toddlers’ songs. Psychology of Music, 46(2), 155-173.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). The Importance of Music in Early Childhood: Perspectives from Research to Practice. Perspectives: Journal of the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association, 12(3).
Einarsdóttir, S. L. and Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2016). The Role of Choral Singing in the Lives of Amateur Choristers in Iceland. Music Education Research, 18(1), 39-56. DOI:10.1080/14613808.2015.1049258
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009). The benefits of parent-infant music courses as perceived by mothers belonging to two different age groups. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, 22-25th July (MERYC 2009), Adessi, A. R. and Young, S. (Eds.). Bologna University Press, pp. 335-341.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2008), Tónmennt í íslenskum grunnskólum: Útbreiðsla, aðstæður og viðhorf. [translation of title: Music Education in Icelandic schools: Scope, conditions, and attitudes.] Tímarit um Menntarannsóknir, 5, pp. 63-76. Félag um menntarannsóknir, Háskóla Íslands.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (1999). Children´s Auditory Discrimination of Simultaneous Melodies, Journal of Research in Music Education, 47 (2), 101-110.
Conference proceedings
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2018). How we learn to sing: Studies on singing in 2- and 3-year-olds. Proceedings of the Early Childhood Music Education commission of ISME, Israel, Shefa Ahmr, 7. – 14. July, 2018.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). Can infants dance before they can walk? Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, 20th-24th June 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Pitt, J. & Street, A. (Eds.), pp. 167-174.
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. (2016) Strategies and challenges in forming an eclectic program in music teacher education. Proceedings of conference: New Directions for Performance and Music Teacher Education, Arts College of Xiamen University, 2. – 5. November 2016.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). Signs of Musical Behaviour and Infant Participation in Music Classes for Eight- to Nine-Month-Old Infants with Their Parents. Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, 8th-11th June 2011, Helsinki, Finland, Young, S. (Ed.). pp. 135-142.
Guðmundsdóttir, H. R. (2010). Hugmyndir um uppruna tónlistar í ljósi þekkingar af vettvangi heilarannsókna og tónlistarrannsókna. Ráðstefnurit Netlu -Menntakvika 2010. Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands.
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. & Heimonen, M. (2010). Perspectives on Social Justice and the Curricula in Formal Music Education in Iceland and Finland. Paper presented at the Nordic Network of Research in Music Education Conference, Malmö, April 21-23, 2010.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009). The benefits of parent-infant music courses as perceived by mothers belonging to two different age groups. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, 22-25th July (MERYC 2009), Adessi, A. R. and Young, S. (Eds.). Bologna University Press, pp. 335-341.
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. (1997). Children’s Ability to Identify Simultaneous Melodies, Proceedings for ESCOM (European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music) Third triennial conference, 1997, Gabrielson, A. (Ed.). Uppsala, Sweden, July 7-12, pp. 424-429.
Talks at international conferences
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2021). Keynote: Current challenges for researchers and practitioners in early childhood music education. MERYC (Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children) EuNet Online event, 26. February, 2021. https://meryc.eu/conferences/meryc-2021-online-event-recorded-talks/
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2019). Recent advances in research on early childhood singing abilities –The importance of age appropriate measurements. Paper presented at the MERYC (European Network for Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children) conference in Ghent, Belgium, 26. – 30. March, 2019.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2018). An Icelandic perspective on the Nordic Music Education Community. Spoken paper in a symposium on Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe: Authorship in a State-Sponsored International Network, at the World Conference of International Society in Music Education, Baku, Azerbajan, 15. – 20. July, 2018.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2018). The effect of the environment on singing skills in 3-year-olds. Spoken paper at the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, 23.-28. July, 2018.
Gudmundsdottir, 2018. A music program for 3-year-old children enhances rhythmic ability and pre-reading language skills. Conference: The Power of Music Education – Estonian Experience” took place in Tallinn in April 17th to 20th, 2018.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). Developing techniques for testing singing ability in 3-year-olds. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, 30. July-3. August 2017, University of Southern California San Diego.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). The effect of musical training on 3-year-olds’ rhythmic ability and phonetic skills. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, 30. July-3. August 2017, University of Southern California San Diego.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). The magic hat: On the effect of playful methods on the measuring of 3-year-old children’s singing proficiency. International Symposium on Performance Science, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík & Centre for Performance Science, London 2017.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). Keynote speech: Music Education for Families with Infants and Toddlers in Iceland. Music at School conference at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, 9.-11. December 2017.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). Icelandic Children’s Song, Rhymes, and Games – The Songs that Bjork and Sigur Rós grew up with. Talk at CASMEC 2017 California All-State Music Education Conference, February 16-19, 2017, San Jose, California.
Fræðilegt erindi fyrir tónlistarkennara í Búkarest, Rúmeníu á vegum ARCUB (Menningar og listastofnun Búkarest borgar) á ráðstefnu fyrir tónlistarkennara þann 30. júní 2016.
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. (2016) Strategies and challenges in forming an eclectic program in music teacher education. New Directions for Performance and Music Teacher Education, Arts College of Xiamen University, 2. – 5. November 2016.
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. (2016). Evaluating singing ability of Icelandic 3-year-old children. Symposium on Crosscultural Research in Singing: AIRS Project Reports from Brazil, Canada, China, Kenya and Iceland. International Conference in Music Education (ISME 2016).
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2015). Participatory singing traditions in Iceland. Presentation at The Arctic Circle 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Singing ability of 1–3-year-olds measured in terms of pitch accuracy and singing range. Paper presented at the 31st World Conference of ISME, July, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Pitch Analysis of Infants’ and Toddlers’ Songs and Adults’ Ability to Recognize Young Children’s Attempts at Song Singing, without Understanding the Words. Paper presented at the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA) Satellite workshop at the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) themed Sound, Music and Motion, Marseilles, October 15-18, 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Application of a New Research tool for Describing Singing Ability: A Study on Icelandic 5-year-old‘s Singing Ability Using Items from the Airs Test Battery. Paper presented in the symposium: Psychological Studies of Singing and New Research Tools. Presented at the 74th annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Quebec City, 13.-15. June 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Evaluating Singing Ability in Icelandic 5-year-olds using items from the AIRS test battery of singing skills. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada, 8. – 11. August 2013.
Gudmundsdottir H. R. and Baldvinsdottir, B. (2012) The singing ability of 5 year old children in preschools with and without special music programs. Paper presented at the Fédération des associations de musiciens éducateurs du Québec (FAMEQ), Quebec city, Canada, 22. – 24. November, 2012.
Gudmundsdottir H. R. and Baldvinsdottir, B. (2012) The singing ability of 5 year old children in preschools with and without special music programs. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Nordic Network for Music Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22. – 24. February, 2012).
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2012). Infant Behavior During Infant-Parent Music Classes. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Nordic Network for Music Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22. – 24. February, 2012).
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. (2010). Musical Parenting in Iceland. Paper presented at the conference: Music, meaning and method. University of Iceland, School of Education, 29. maí 2010.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). Musical gestures of infants in a musical-social context. Paper presented at the 2011 London conference of the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, 1.-2. July 2011, Kings College, London.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). The issue of quality of content in parent-infant music courses: Examples of material and activities from a successful practice. Spoken Practice Paper at the the 5th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, 8th-11th June 2011, Helsinki, Finland.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2010). Analysis of Timing in Children’s Music Reading Performances. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, 23.-27. August, 2010.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009). Well-being and singing in parent-infant music courses –mothers belonging to two different social/age groups. AIRS 1st annual Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, June 27-30.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009). The benefits of parent-infant music courses as perceived by mothers belonging to two different age groups. Erindi flutt á ráðstefnu: MERYC 2009, the 4th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, Bologna, 22-25th July.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2008). Development of pitch reading skills in young piano students. Paper presented at the International Society for Music Education, World Conference, 22.-25. July 2008 in Bologna, Italy.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2008). Icelandic school music teachers’ evaluation of their own professional background. Paper presented at the 10th Nordic conference on teacher education. “Relationen mellem læreruddannelsen og skoleudviklingen, 21.-22. maí, 2008, Iceland University of Education.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2007). Error Analysis of Young Piano Students’ Music Reading Performances. Paper presentation at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2007). Musical Symbols and Traditions. Presentation at the Annual Conference of CSSE (The Canadian Society for the Study of Education), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Talks at conferences in Iceland
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). Hlutverk tónfalls og rytma í máltöku ungra barna. Erindi á Menntaviku ráðstefnu Menntavísindastofnunar Háskóla Íslands, 6. október 2017.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). Hvernig er markvisst hægt að efla læsi áður en börnum er kennt að lesa? Erindi á ráðstefnunni: Lestur er lykill að ævintýrum, 18. nóvember, Menntamálastofnun og Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík 2017.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2015). Tengsl málþroska og söngþroska 3 ára barna. Erindi á Menntakviku, Ráðstefna Menntavísindasviðs Háskóla Íslands, október 2015.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2015). Formlegt tónlistarnám og félagslegt réttlæti. Málþing Listaháskóla Íslands um listmenntun, Listasafni Íslands, 30. maí 2015.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2015). Inherited culture and music education in Iceland. Presentation at sympposium: Þjóðlistir og menntun at Vaka Þjóðlistahátíð, 2015, Akureyri, Iceland.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Musicality in Early Infancy. Spoken paper at the Hugarflug, Annual Conference of the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, 28. February, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Favorite Songs of Icelandic Pre-school children. Spoken paper at the Annual Symposium of the Iceland Center for Music Research. Iceland Academy of the Arts. 9. May, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Icelandic Participation in International Research in Singing. Spoken paper at the Thjodarspegillinn, annual conference of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Iceland, 31. October, 2014.
Gudmundsdóttir, H. R. (2014). Singing ranges of Icelandic and English speaking toddlers singing the same song. Poster at the Thjodarspegillinn, annual conference of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Iceland, 31. October, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). The effect of Music on Young Children’s Pre-reading Skills. Poster at the annual conference of the Educational Research Institute of the University of Iceland, 2. October, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. and Halldorsdottir, H. (2014). A Research Study on the Effect of Music Training on the Pre-reading Skills of 3-year-olds. Spoken paper at a Conference on Reading at the University of Akureyri, 12. – 13. September, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. and Halldorsdottir, H. (2014). Introducing Teaching Material in Music for 3-year-olds. Spoken paper at the annual conference of the Educational Research Institute of the University of Iceland, 2. October, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. and Stefansdottir, H. J. (2014). Music Education in Icelandic Schools. Symposium at the annual conference of the Educational Research Institute of the University of Iceland, 2. October, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). Jafningjavitund 8-9 mánaða ungbarna í tónlistartímum ásamt foreldrum. Fyrirlestur á Menntakviku 2011, ráðstefnu Menntavísindasviðs Háskóla Íslands, 30. september, Reykjavík.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009) Skipulagt tónlistarstarf í uppeldi barna meðal ungra og eldri mæðra. Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum X –félags og mannvísindadeild. Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson og Helga Björnsdóttir (Eds.). Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, bls. 637-643.
Conference posters
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2017). The effect of musical training on 3-year-olds’ rhythmic ability and auditory perception. Poster at International Symposium on Performance Science, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík & Centre for Performance Science, London 2017.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. and Trehub, S. E. (2013). Are infants’ and toddlers’ songs recognizable without the words? Poster presented at the CRBLM Inaugural Symposium on Language and Music, Montreal, May 3-4, 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Singing ranges of Icelandic 5-6-year-olds: Data collected using the AIRS battery of singing skill. Poster presented at the AIRS annual meeting, Toronto, 12. August 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013) Raddsvið 5-6 ára íslenskra barna þegar þau syngja lag að eigin vali. Veggspjald á Menntakviku, Menntavísindasviðs Háskóla Íslands, 27. September, 2013.
Gudmundsdottir H. R. and Baldvinsdottir, B. (2013). Því söngurinn hann er vort mál -Raddsvið og söngfærni íslenskra fimm og sex ára leikskólabarna. Veggspjald á Menntakviku, Menntavísindasviðs Háskóla Íslands, 27. September, 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2012). The „mesmerizing“appeal of the baroque dance: Non-walking infants’ responses to a dance ritual in a parent-infant music course. Poster presented at the 2012 McMaster NeuroMusic Conference, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, Hamilton, Ontario, 13. October, 2012.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). Infants’ Participatory Behavior in Parent-Infant Music Classes. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition was held at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, on August 11-14, 2011
Guðmundsdóttir, H. R. (2011). Mælikvarði á þátttökufærni 8-9-mánaða ungbarna. Veggspjald á Menntakviku 2011, Ráðstefnu Menntavísindastofnunar Háskóla Íslands, 30. september, Reykjavík.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009). Well-being and singing in parent-infant music courses –mothers belonging to two different social/age groups (poster). AIRS 1st annual Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, June 27-30.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2008). Music in Compulsory Education in Iceland (poster). ISME (International Society for Music Education) World Conference, Bologna, Italy, 22-25 July 2008.
Other published articles
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. ( 2007). Hvad hører fosteret?: Forskningsnytt om lyd og musikk før fødselen. Fagblad for Foreningen Musikk fra livets begynnelse. Foreningen Musikk fra livets begynnelse. Norsk Musikkråd, no. 01.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2006). Börn og tónlist: Hvernig eiga foreldrar að bera sig að varðandi tónlistaruppeldi barna sinna? [Translation: Music in Childhood: What can parents do for their children’s music education?] Uppeldi,19(4), pp. 20-24.
Talks and lectures
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Measures of Infant Music Engagement –A tool based on findings from observations of 8-9-month-olds in parent-infant music classes. Symposium: Conceptions in early childhood musical abilities. Meeting of the Nordic Network for Music Education Research (NNMPF), The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, 22. – 24. April, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. and Trehub, S. (2014). Pitch analysis of infants’ and toddlers’ songs and adults ability to recognize young children’s attempts at song singing without understanding the words. Spoken paper at the Meeting of the Nordic Network for Music Education Research (NNMPF), The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, 22. – 24. April, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Singing ability of 1-3-year-olds measured in terms of pitch accuracy and singing range. Spoken research paper at the International Society for Music Education (ISME), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 20. – 25. July, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2014). Singing ranges and pitch accuracy of Icelandic 5-6-year-olds: Data collected using the AIRS battery of singing skill. Paper presented in a symposium: The life long impact of singing from an interdisciplinary perspective. International Society for Music Education (ISME), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 20. – 25. July, 2014.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Pitch Analysis of Infants’ and Toddlers’ Songs and Adults’ Ability to Recognize Young Children’s Attempts at Song Singing, without Understanding the Words. Paper presented at the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA) Satellite workshop at the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) themed Sound, Music and Motion, Marseilles, October 15-18, 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Application of a New Research tool for Describing Singing Ability: A Study on Icelandic 5-year-old‘s Singing Ability Using Items from the Airs Test Battery. Paper presented in the symposium: Psychological Studies of Singing and New Research Tools. Presented at the 74th annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Quebec City, 13.-15. June 2013.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2013). Evaluating Singing Ability in Icelandic 5-year-olds using items from the AIRS test battery of singing skills. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada, 8. – 11. August 2013.
Gudmundsdottir H. R. and Baldvinsdottir, B. (2012) The singing ability of 5 year old children in preschools with and without special music programs. Paper presented at the Fédération des associations de musiciens éducateurs du Québec (FAMEQ), Quebec city, Canada, 22. – 24. November, 2012.
Gudmundsdottir H. R. and Baldvinsdottir, B. (2012) The singing ability of 5 year old children in preschools with and without special music programs. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Nordic Network for Music Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22. – 24. February, 2012).
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2012). Infant Behavior During Infant-Parent Music Classes. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Nordic Network for Music Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22. – 24. February, 2012).
Gudmundsdottir, H.R. (2010). Musical Parenting in Iceland. Paper presented at the conference: Music, meaning and method. University of Iceland, School of Education, 29. maí 2010.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). Musical gestures of infants in a musical-social context. Paper presented at the 2011 London conference of the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, 1.-2. July 2011, Kings College, London.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2011). The issue of quality of content in parent-infant music courses: Examples of material and activities from a successful practice. Spoken Practice Paper at the the 5th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children, 8th-11th June 2011, Helsinki, Finland.
Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2010). Analysis of Timing in Children’s Music Reading Performances. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, 23.-27. August, 2010.
2009 Keynote lecture: ‘Perspectives on social justice and the curricula in formal music education’ by Marja Heimonen (Sibelius Academy) and Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir (University of Iceland). Social Justice and Inclusion in Music Education, Hedmark University College, Norway, 9-13 November.
2009 Pitch error analysis of young piano students’ music reading performances. Paper presented at the Conference of Nordisk Nettverk for Musikk Pedagogisk Forskning, University of Ørebro, Sweden, 21.-23. January.
2009 Gudmundsdottir, H. R. (2009). Well-being and singing in parent-infant music courses –mothers belonging to two different social/age groups. AIRS 1st annual Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, June 27-30.
2009 The benefits of parent-infant music courses as perceived by parents belonging to two different social groups. Paper presented at the 4th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children (MERYC), Bologna, Italy, 22nd-25th July, 2009.
2009 Skipulagt tónlistarstarf í uppeldi barna meðal ungra og eldri mæðra. (English transl.: Organized musical activities in parenting among younger and older mothers) Paper presented a conference: Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum X, félags- og mannvísindadeild. Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson & Helga Björnsdóttir (Eds.). Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, pp. 637-643.
2008 Development of pitch reading skills in young piano students. Paper presented at the International Society for Music Education, World Conference, 22-25 July 2008 in Bologna, Italy.
2008 Icelandic school music teachers’ evaluation of their own professional background. Paper presented at the 10th Nordic conference on teacher education. “Relationen mellem læreruddannelsen og skoleudivklingen, 21.-22. maí, 2008, Kennaraháskóla Íslands.
2008 Hvernig tónlist getur varpað ljósi á vitsmunaþroska ungbarna. [Transl.: How music can enlighten our understanding of infants’ cognitive development] Talk presented at the Iceland University of Education, 23. January 2008.
2008 ”Litlir snillingar” Um vitsmunaþroska ungra barna í ljósi nýjust rannsókna. [Transl.: ”Young geniuses” On the cognitive development of babies from the perspective of recent research] Talk presented at a seminar for home day-care professionals in the City of Reykjavik, 22. February, 2008.
2008 Ávinningur af tónlistarnámi. [Transl.: The benefits of music study]. Talk presented at a local conference on education at the Unviersity of Iceland, School of Education, 23.-24. October.
2007 Music for the baby’s brain, but what about aesthetics? Talk presented at the Nordic conference: Børn og kultur – det æstetiskes betydning i børnekultur og børns kultur, Iceland, Hveragerði, 25. – 28. October 2007.
2007 Þróun tónmenntakennslu – hvaðan komum við og hvert skal stefna? [Transl.: Progress in music education – where are we heading?] Talk presented at the conferenc on education at the Iceland University of Education, 18. – 19. október 2007.
2007 Musical Symbols and Traditions. Presentation at the Annual Conference of CSSE (The Canadian Society for the Study of Education), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 26.-29. May 2007.
2007 Is music education thriving, or a subject on the brink of extinction? Talk at McGill University Research Exchange Forum, Faculty of Education 27. February.
2006 Practical methods in music education: A Scandinavian perspective. Talk at music department, Faculty of Education, McGill University, 4. October.
2006 Measuring children’s perception of simultaneous events in music using familiar melodies as stimuli. Talk at the McGill Cognitive Area Seminar, Department of Psychology, McGill University in Montreal, 19. September.
2006 Music Education in Icelandic schools: How is the current situation? Talk as part of lecture series within the Iceland University of Education Research Council, 25. janúar.
Scholarly papers
Dissertation (Ph.D.) completed at McGill University, Faculty of Music, Montreal, Canada, 2003. Dissertation Title: Music Reading Errors of Young Piano Students.
Masters Thesis (M.A.) completed at McGill University, Faculty of Music, Montreal, Canada, 1997. Title: Children´s ability to identify two simultaneous melodies.
Thesis as partial fullfillment of Batchelor of Education, (B.Ed.), completed at Iceland University of Education, 1992. Title: The value of choral education: a philosophical perspective. [Icelandic title: Æfa saman eitthvert lag eða syngja kvæði: um gildi kórstarfs með börnum.]