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Record W2496364403 · doi:10.1017/ccol9780521833479.004

Haydn's aesthetics

2005· book-chapter· en· W2496364403 on OpenAlexaff
James Webster

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2005
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAestheticsArt

Abstract

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[Haydn’s] theoretical raisonnements were very simple: A piece of music ought to have a fluent melody; coherent ideas; no superfluous ornaments, nothing overdone, no deafening accompaniments and so forth. Haydn's personality Until recently, it might have seemed odd to suggest that Haydn possessed anything resembling a coherent aesthetics. Such a notion is incompatible with the traditional image of “Papa Haydn”: pious, good-humored, concerned for the welfare of others, proud of his students, regular in habits, conservative; but also naive and unreflective. However, this image is one-sided; it reflects the elderly and increasingly frail man encountered by his first biographers, Georg August Griesinger and Albert Christoph Dies. For a more accurate sense of Haydn's personality, we must turn to his correspondence and other primary sources, insofar as possible from different periods of his life. These are more revealing than has usually been assumed, and convey a tangible sense of the man Haydn: the vigorous and productive composer, performer, Kapellmeister, impresario, businessman, conqueror of London, friend, husband, and lover. Once he is understood as a real person actively engaged in his world, it may seem plausible to inquire into his aesthetic beliefs. Even the sobriquet “Papa” can be understood in more appropriate ways: as the “father of the symphony,” obviously, but also in the sense of “patriarch,” as implied by the resolution making him a life member of the Vienna Tonkünstler-Sozietät in 1797 “by virtue of his extraordinary merit as the father and reformer of the noble art of music.” Haydn's public career largely exemplified the Enlightenment ideal of the honnête homme : the man whose good character and worldly success enable and justify each other; he has been described as the first artist of any kind to achieve European-wide celebrity in his own lifetime.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.104

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.008
Scholarly communication0.0060.005
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.005

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 head0.034
GPT teacher head0.183
Teacher spread0.150 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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