In Flanders Fields: Music of Remembrance in the Songs of Frederick R. Emerson
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Abstract
In our folk music we have something which is very much alive.These songs are the most living things which we today can share with our earliest Newfoundland forefathers.They are worthy of our study because they are the very heart of our real Newfoundland culture.When we sing these songs we are at one with all the people of our country and one with all the folk of the earliest days of our island history (Frederick Rennie Emerson, 1895-1972). Frederick Emerson: A Life of ServiceThose words, delivered in a lecture on Newfoundland folk music, offer a brief glimpse into the world of one of Newfoundland's most remarkable musical minds.An accomplished singer, pianist, composer, and music educator, Frederick Rennie Emerson played a leading role in the preservation and dissemination of Newfoundland's distinctive musical heritage.Emerson was born in St. John's, Newfoundland on April 2, 1895, son of Helen Scott and Charles H. Emerson, a prominent lawyer.'The family's ancestral roots can be traced to eighteenth century Concord, Massachusetts, raising the intriguing possibility that he may have been a distant descendent of Ralph Waldo Emerson.Emerson's education was commensurate with that of many middle to upper class Newfoundlanders of his generation.Early schooling took place at Bishop Feild College in St. John's, a Church of England School in Newfoundland's long standing tradition of denominational education, while secondary studies were undertaken at Frarnlingham College, a private school in Suffolk, England.He became a solicitor in 1918 and, the following year, was called to the Newfoundland Bar.With his marriage to Isabel Jamieson in 1921, Frederick Emerson, lawyer, stepped solidly into the role of husband and provider.Yet there can be no doubt that music remained his true passion, a fact convincingly affirmed by the gift of a grand piano from his father upon passing the Bar.In a distinguished life of public service, Emerson was one of Newfoundland's most prominent citizens and actively involved in diverse affairs of church and state.He was
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".