Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Harmonious Triads is a scattered book by Myles Jackson about musical practice, physical acoustics, instrument-making, musical pedagogy, and the social and political role of music in the German states and then the unified Germany of the 19th century.One of the themes in a number of its chapters is the impact that natural scientists interested in physical acoustics had on music-making in private homes, churches, and concert halls.Thus, two figures of interest to Jackson are E. F. F. Chladni, the experimental scientist who made a study of the acoustical properties of bells, bowls, and other vessels, and Wilhelm Weber, the more mathematically inclined physicist who, by building on Chladni's study of longitudinal vibrations, was able to work out the physics of reed pipes.At the same time, Jackson wants to call our attention to the parallel contributions made by artisan instrument makers-many unknown to us today-and even industrialists with or without formal technical scientific expertise.Readers thereby discover a group of very different people responding in very different ways to, and even challenging, German ideals of music at this time.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".