Scots wha hae? James MacMillan and the paradoxes of Scottish cultural identity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the year in which James MacMillan reaches his half century and Scotland celebrates the International Year of Homecoming, it seems appropriate, indeed essential, to consider whether MacMillan has succeeded in establishing an individual dentity as a composer. Or is it rather that, in McCrone’s words, written just at the point when he was about to make his first major impact with The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, he adopts a ‘pick and mix’ approach (e.g. Scottish composer, Catholic composer, Scottish Catholic composer, British composer, international composer), according to the needs of the moment. \nIn an interview for the 1998 Vancouver New Music Festival MacMillan said: ‘Sometimes [through] one’s local and specific groundings, whether it (sic) be a geographic or a specific denominational thing one can achieve a sense of identity which is then transcended’. This paper considers how far MacMillan’s music is indeed grounded in the local and specific; whether he has succeeded as a composer in ‘transcending’ the sense of place and time which has so firmly contributed to his individual identity and how this has been shaped by the extent to which his audience expects from him a certain cultural identity.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".