Most of my music interests and research centers on the areas in which I have taught.

Jazz

I’ve been teaching Jazz for over a decade, so much of my focus has been on this topic.  A few years ago, I dropped the textbook requirement for my course, and in the process, developed a number of resources to replace those found in tradition textbooks.  Here are some examples:

• sample interactive listening guide:
  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band – “Livery Stable Blues”
  • for a more technical description, please see my Computer Science page
• sample interactive video guide:
  • Billie Holiday, et. al – “Fine and Mellow”
  • this is built using the same system as the interactive listening guides
• sample lecture:
  • Jazz in Nazi-Occupied Europe
• interactive Jazz ensemble demo
  • it allows students to mute out one or more instruments in examples of the two major Jazz ensembles–combo or big band–in order to more easily understand the instruments’ roles
  • for a more technical description, please see my Computer Science page
• basic music theory:
  • pitch and octave
• flash cards:
  • pre-Jazz / early Jazz / Armstrong listening exam
  • for a more technical description, please see my Computer Science page
• listening game:
  • pre-Jazz / early Jazz / Armstrong listening exam
  • for a more technical description, please see my Computer Science page

For more technical information about some of these resources, please refer to my Computer Science page.

Classical

My first love–and the first topic I taught–was Western Classical music appreciation, though I haven’t done so for a number of years.  That said, the resources here are a bit more dated than my Jazz resources, but may still be of some interest.

• my site dedicated to Johann Pachelbel.
• sample interactive listening guide:  Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor (KV 550):  I. Molto allegro.

Saxophone

My primary instrument is the saxophone, so much of the focus of my music graduate studies focused on its history and use.

• my lecture recital/thesis:  Instrumental Baroque Music – A Study of the Process of Arranging and Transcribing for Saxophone Performance and Pedagogy
• saxophone timeline

Publications

• Mosterd, E., (2018), “Using Interactivity to Improve Online Music Pedagogy for Undergraduate Non-Majors,” in Pedagogy Development for Teaching Online Music, IGI Global.  https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5109-6.ch006
• Mosterd, E., (2015), “Run-DMC,” in The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time, ABC-CLIO.
• Mosterd, E., (2015), “Sly and the Family Stone,” in The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time, ABC-CLIO.

Citations

• Deinhard, Jan, Tobias Lensing, and Paul Kellett. “Interactive media streaming.” U.S. Patent 8,745,259, issued June 3, 2014.
  (references my thesis work)
• Junior, Pedro Ribeiro Kröger. “Desenvolvendo uma meta-linguagem para síntese sonora.” (2004).
  (references my thesis work)
• Kalayci, İ., & Korukoğlu, S. (2009). Müzik verileri için xml tabanlı diller.
• Lee, Jin Ha, J. Stephen Downie, and Allen Renear. “Representing Korean traditional musical notation in xml.” In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. IRCAM, Paris. 2002.
  (references my thesis work)
• Nesi, Paolo, P. Bellini, J. Barthelemy, G. Zoia, and K. Ng. “The Interactive-Music Network.” (2004).
• Steyn, Jacques. “Alternative Design Goals for a General Music Markup Language.” Interactive Multimedia Music Technologies (2007): 133.
  (references my thesis work)