A film about Benjamin Britten’s ‘Nocturnal Op.70’, shot on location at The Red House in Suffolk, England, for Tonebase.
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A film about Manuel de Falla’s ‘Homenaje’, shot on location at Falla’s house in Granada, Spain, for Tonebase.
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Performance anxiety is something that affects everyone who plays music in front of other people. What techniques are there for making us feel better about ourselves on stage?
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There is a mountain of published literature on Bach’s Chaconne. This can be overwhelming for the performer. In this livestream, Steve Goss guides you through a number of ideas presented by different authors and suggests some strategies for getting to know this incredible work more intimately.
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Adolf Marx was the first to use the term ‘sonata form’ as late as 1845 and even then in a largely unhelpful way. Was sonata form invented, or did it evolve? Steve Goss traces the gradual development of binary, rounded binary, and ternary forms into what became known as sonata form through some well-known examples from the guitar repertoire.
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A keynote lecture for the EGTA Summer Festival 2021, 11th August 2021. Pedagogy’s Parroting Problem: how tradition suffocates style and imagination.
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This lecture was given at the 21c Guitar Conference in Portugal in March 2021. In it, I look at issues in 20th century guitar performance practice through the lens of Falla’s ‘Homenaje’ and my piece ‘Hiraeth’ (2020)
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These three videos form a Guitar Foundation of America online convention collaboration between Jonathan Leathwood, Stanley Yates and myself. We took a look at the pedagogical utility of improvisation as a tool for deepening our understanding of notated, composed music.
Part 1 – Jonathan explored the baroque
Part 2 – Stanley took a look at early nineteenth partimento harmony
Part 3 – I looked at improvisation as a compositional tool in the 20th and 21st centuries

These are my first two film for Tonebase. One looks at the compositional process, the other is looks at common practice harmony.
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