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Record W2764665717 · doi:10.1093/oq/kbw005

Composing Citoyennes through Sapho

2016· article· en· W2764665717 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Opera Quarterly · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCaribbean and African Literature and Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOperaArtLiteratureMusicology

Abstract

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If a citizen can be created via music, as Jann Pasler has argued, then how might one “compose” a female citizen—a citoyenne—when the very concept of female citizenship was politically illegitimate?1 This article attempts to answer this question by examining the opera Sapho, the first full-length French opera on the celebrated ancient Greek poetess. It was written by the female author Constance-Marie de Salm (1767–1845), and set to music by the male composer Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini.2 Their collaboration was unusual. In general, composers and librettists in late eighteenth-century France were paid the same amount and had the same rights over their operas. Co-creators of different sexes, indicated by the titles Citoyenne Pipelet and Citoyen Martini on the libretto and the printed score, complicated this supposedly “equal” partnership.3 Unlike the gender-neutral English word “citizen,” the French, citoyenne is gendered female and may strike musicologists nowadays as particular. This gender asymmetry operating on the grammatical level skewed the reception of the opera. In a review published in 1795, the author, following the title page of the libretto, calls the librettist de Salm “Citoyenne Pipelet,” but names the composer simply as Martini. The specification of Pipelet’s gender with “citoyenne,” coupled with the omission of “citoyen,” emphasizes Pipelet’s gender, implying that it was natural for a male to compose an opera but unusual for a woman to write its libretto. This article aims to investigate this gender asymmetry. The opera Sapho, I propose, discloses a tension between gender and creative partnership in the history of opera and citizenship.4

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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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.901
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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)0.0010.000

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.190 · 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