Bibliographic record
Abstract
What is always at issue in creative concert programming is finding that combination of inventive musical approach and stimulating text that engages and excites an audience's imagination.The works of Canadian composers present a virtually untapped resource in programming options for recital or study.As a brief introduction to some of the works available, I have chosen to focus on the song cycles for soprano voice of Canadian composer, John Greer.' Pianist, coach, and composer John Greer was born in 1954.His earliest compositions grew from his primary employment as coach accompanist with the University of Toronto's Opera School, where he was asked to write vocal arrangements of folk songs that were to be included in recital.The success of these works led to subsequent commissions and a secondary career in composition was begun.Certainly Greer's compositional output shows a particular fondness for the voice and his compositions for solo voice include nine song cycles for varying vocal types.Of Greer's song cycles.I will examine examples from three that have been chosen for their thematic and musical diversity.These cycles illustrate the variety of style and flexibility of his vocal writing.They are Studies and Rambles of Wasagewanoqua, Allegory of Sweet Desire, and A Sarah Binl!s Songbool!.The first cycle.Studies and Rambles of Wasagewanoqua, is inspired by Anna Brownell Jameson's (1965) memoirs of her travels in I 836 entitled Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.Her book is replete with her original and humorous observations of life in the 1800s and is sprinkled throughout with the erudite Anna's quotations of poetry ranging from Shakespeare to Coleridge.Wasagewanoqua means "lady of the bright foam" in Ojibway, and was the name given to Anna Jameson by an Ojibway tribe during her arduous travels through Upper Canada (now known as Ontario).In an attempt to be as true to the literary model as possible, Greer has designated the songs as studies or rambles mirroring the structural division of Jameson's book.Songs that include direct quotation from the novel (either quotation from Jameson or the additional observations of W. Irving) are referred to as rambles, while pieces that use ancillary texts, such as poems or song texts that are included in the novel, are studies.This form has the benefit of providing a structural framework for the cycle but offers latitude with regard to its inner components.John Greer has no one particular compositional style; he is influenced first by the intent and structure implied by the text and.secondly, by his wish to challenge himself as composer.Therefore, he will use whatever compositional technique is called for to achieve the desired musical or textural effect.Unlike many contemporary composers.he wholeheartedly admits that his work is firmly rooted in the past.His music is a blend of the neo-c1assical, neoromantic.and contemporary and his compositional techniques may include parody.quotation, polytonality, or serialism.With this in mind.I approach the first work in the cycle, "Voyage to Canada."It is based on a text that is beyond the immediate scope of Jameson's novel.This text from "Die GroBe
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".