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    Britten's 'Nocturnal' - a film for Tonebase

    by Stephen Goss

    A film about Benjamin Britten’s ‘Nocturnal Op.70’, shot on location at The Red House in Suffolk, England, for Tonebase.
    Watch on YouTube

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    Falla's 'Homenaje' - a film for Tonebase

    by Stephen Goss

    A film about Manuel de Falla’s ‘Homenaje’, shot on location at Falla’s house in Granada, Spain, for Tonebase.
    Watch on YouTube

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    Become Comfortable on Stage - a livestream for Tonebase

    by Stephen Goss

    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?
    Watch on YouTube

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    Bach’s Chaconne - a livestream for Tonebase

    by Stephen Goss

    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.
    Watch on YouTube

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    Myth-busting Sonata Form - a livestream for Tonebase

    by Stephen Goss

    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.
    Watch on YouTube

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    Pedagogy's Parroting Problem

    by Stephen Goss

    A keynote lecture for the EGTA Summer Festival 2021, 11th August 2021. Pedagogy’s Parroting Problem: how tradition suffocates style and imagination.
    Watch on YouTube

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    Hiraeth: Manuel de Falla, Andrés Segovia, nostalgia, tradition, and performance practice

    by Stephen Goss

    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)
    Watch the film

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    Improvisation as a Way of Knowing, GFA 2020

    by Jonathan Leathwood, Stanley Yates, and Stephen Goss

    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

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    Tonebase lectures on composition and harmony

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

  • LECTURE
  • Britten's 'Nocturnal' - a film for Tonebase
  • Falla's 'Homenaje' - a film for Tonebase
  • Become Comfortable on Stage - a livestream for Tonebase
  • Bach’s Chaconne - a livestream for Tonebase
  • Myth-busting Sonata Form - a livestream for Tonebase
  • Pedagogy's Parroting Problem
  • Hiraeth: Manuel de Falla, Andrés Segovia, nostalgia, tradition, and performance practice
  • Improvisation as a Way of Knowing, GFA 2020
  • Tonebase lectures on composition and harmony
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