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Record W223312513

Older Singers and Old Recordings

2010· article· en· W223312513 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Dan Milner

Bibliographic record

VenueNew York folklore · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBalladSingingRepertoireHistoryArt historyArtArchaeologyLiteratureManagementPoetry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Last July, I spent a few days at Pinewoods Camp in Massachusetts in the good company of a number of fine singers, including three from England: Tim Radford of Hampshire, and Anni Fentiman and Dave Weber, respectively from County Durham and Yorkshire. Len Graham, originally from Ireland's County Antrim, was there too, along with Colleen Cleveland from Brant Lake, New York. Colleen and I had met only once before, at the annual Eisteddfod in New York City, and I was thrilled to hear how her singing had matured in the past few years. Colleen is the granddaughter of Sarah Cleveland, one of the Northeast's most outstanding song carriers of the twentieth century. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, on New Year's Day 1905, Sarah's forebearers were all from Ireland: Creedons and Linehans from County Cork, and Wiggins and Henrys from Ulster. Her repertoire was both broad and deep and contained many rare gems--not that she was unique in that regard, but highly noteworthy, because she amassed a collection of some four hundred traditional songs and ballads, filed in her memory and backed up in a number of chapbooks. They included old traditional ballads found in the Child collection, British broadsides, and folk songs from Canada and the United States. A brace of songs from the many hours of Sarah's singing taped by Sandy Paton has been reissued as Ballads and Songs of the Upper Hudson Valley (Folk-Legacy CD-33). It contains a splendid selection from her repertoire, including Wear a Green Willow, often called The Nobleman's Wedding in the north of Ireland; Queen Jane or The King's Dochter Lady Jean, number 52 in the Child canon; and Molly Bawn, about a young woman who changes herself into a swan in order to follow her lover, only to meet with a tragic end. This CD is an important recording of American traditional singing, and every New Yorker who loves folk songs should have a copy. Sound recordings are important because they provide not just words and tunes, but articulate how traditional singers use their voices to tell ancient and topical tales. One of my favorite New York State recordings is Lawrence Older's Adirondack Songs and Ballads, recorded by Sandy Paton in 1963 and reissued as Folk-Legacy CD-15. Most of its twenty-four tracks bear the mark of British heritage, but there are three French-Canadian pieces as well, including a paddling song and two dance tunes. Lawrence Older left school early to follow the trade his family had pursued for generations. In the June 1966 issue of New York Folklore Quarterly, he profiled himself as someone who preferred to work with a single partner or alone rather than in a larger-scale commercial logging operation. Self-sufficiency and moderation ring out in that autobiographical sketch as loudly as axe blows resound in the forest. Not surprisingly, the album opens with his fine rendition of Once More A-Lumbering Go. To the music of our axes, we'll make the woods resound, And many a tall and lofty pine comes tumbling to the ground. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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 categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.594
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

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)0.0070.000

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 head0.065
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.152 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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