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Record W2088385255 · doi:10.1093/em/cam038

Sammartini to Mendelssohn

2007· article· en· W2088385255 on OpenAlex
Peter Branscombe

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Bibliographic record

VenueEarly Music · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSymphonyArtListing (finance)AutographQuarter (Canadian coin)LiteratureHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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My reviewing task this quarter is a small pile of CDs ranging chronologically from Giovanni Battista Sammartini to Mendelssohn, and geographically from the Spain of Boccherini, the Milan of Sammartini and the Eszterháza of Haydn to the Stockholm of Kraus. These are mainly chamber works, for various instrumental combinations. Even the six little Sammartini symphonies include just two that require more than two- or three-part strings. The only proper exception is a pair of orchestral symphonies by Boccherini. All six works in this programme of Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Symphonies (Naxos 8.557298, rec 2003, 60’) are in three movements (the first, no.62 in the standard Jenkins/Churgin listing, has alternative finales, both being played here). This work includes a pair of trumpets; the last on the CD, J-C4 in C, adds two horns to the strings, which, in two or three parts, otherwise represent the full ensemble. All four of the strings-only works are included (under different numbering) in the volume of The early symphonies edited by Bathia Churgin and published in 1968; the more richly scored ones probably date from around 1750. This is an attractive selection from Sammartini's 60-plus symphonies, all of them mainly short-breathed yet neatly constructed, with energetic fast movements and more languorous and melodious slow ones. The Aradia Ensemble, based in Toronto, is on this showing a talented group, and Kevin Mellon directs sprightly and perceptive readings. With a short but good leaflet note, and resonantly recorded, this is an issue well worth sampling—and buying—especially as none of the pieces is otherwise available, and Sammartini has (or should have) an honoured place in the early history of the symphony. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and impressive disc.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.818
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.004

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 head0.153
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.089 · 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