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Record W2053176209 · doi:10.1093/ml/gct025

Moliere, Descartes, and the Practice of Comedy in the Intermezzo

2013· article· en· W2053176209 on OpenAlexaff
Keith M. Johnston

Bibliographic record

VenueMusic and Letters · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComicsArtComedyNaturalismLiteratureStyle (visual arts)PortraitMusicalBourgeoisieOperaEnlightenmentArt historyVisual artsPhilosophy

Abstract

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The comic intermezzo currently holds a prominent place in the historiography of eighteenth-century music. The comic music contained in these short entertainments provides evidence of a burgeoning musical style that came to dominate the opera house and the chamber in the Age of Enlightenment. But by examining these works retrospectively, musicologists have produced a distorted portrait of the genre itself, downplaying the artistic merit of the works in favour of promoting their supposed naive comic naturalism. This article examines the working methods of intermezzo librettists and composers through the example of a remarkable scene contained in Leonardo Vinci’s second intermezzo, <i>Albino e Plautilla da pedante</i>, produced in Naplesin 1723. This scene recreates an exchange about philosophy from Molière’s <i>Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme</i>. While scholars have known of six intermezzo adaptations of Molière for some time, the discovery of this scene provides new insights into the nature of the comic intermezzo. It suggests that the genre was highly literate by drawing on the works of Molière, and highly erudite by drawing on contemporary debates about Cartesianism and the role of women in the New Philosophy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.746
Threshold uncertainty score0.865

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.193
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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