Without Ceasing: A Performance Analysis of Six Solo Works for Saxophone
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis for the Doctor of Music degree consists of an audio recording, a public recital, a scholarly essay and program notes to compliment the recorded and live performance, and are available at https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-vkd1-tz03. The recording and concert consist of the following unaccompanied saxophone works: Le Frêne égaré (1978) for alto saxophone and …sur un îlot de la rivière.. (2010) for soprano saxophone by French composer, François Rossé; Oxyton (1993) for baritone saxophone by French composer Christophe Havel; Smoking Mirrors (Symbia II) (1995) for alto saxophone by American composer John M. Kennedy; Tilework for Saxophone (2003) by American composer, currently residing in France, Tom Johnson; and finally Strata (2012) for solo tenor saxophone by Canadian composer Colin Labadie. This scholarly essay explores the performance challenges and decisions that were made in preparing these works for the recording and final performance. In discussing historical saxophone literature, and how repertoire has transformed since 1970, this paper will compare and highlight the compositional techniques and notation found in the six unaccompanied saxophone works. Furthermore the discussion of the relationship between the performer, composer and score, and the challenges found within each work, will provide insight into the musical decisions that are showcased in the audio recording and live performance. Supplemental files to this thesis can be found at https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/r/2f7jq0tn0j
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.003 |
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".