Bibliographic record
Abstract
W ith this, the winter 2004 issue, The Opera Quarterly embarks on the pub- lication of its twentieth volume.A benchmark achievement, one might say, even though our two decades of existence don't compare to the longevity of other leading English-language opera periodicals, such as Opera News (celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year) or the British Opera (founded by the late Lord Harewood at mid-century).In any case, we are pleased to have a publisher that believes in us and gives us continued hope for the future of this treasured periodical.Recent subscribers interested in investigating past issues of this journal should have no trouble finding anything from volume 15 on by contacting Oxford University Press Journals at jnlorders@oupjournals.org or through our Web site (see cover).These days volumes 1 through 14 are most easily found on the shelves of music libraries, unless one is lucky enough to run across individual issues in second-hand book shops or at private book sales.The current issue opens with a bird's-eye view of the role of the law in opera, a survey by attorney daniel f. tritter.Then, after serving up his chronicles of the U.S. performance history of Giuseppe Verdi's Oberto, Un giorno di regno, and Nabucco, george martin returns to enlighten us with his survey of the fourth opera in the Verdi canon, I Lombardi alla prima crociata.Not one but two major articles on the operas of Wagner ensue: the first, an examination by graham g. hunt of the role of Ortrud in Lohengrin, offers some interesting musicological insight into a character generally regarded as little more than a one-dimensional, old-fashioned villainess; the second is a fascinating study by linda feuerzeig that brings out the often overlooked significance of the goddess Erda in the Ring.Our final feature article, by daniel p. kessler, evokes the formidable art of Boston opera mega-director Sarah Caldwell by focusing on her delightfully imaginative 1978 staging of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, the cast of which featured Beverly Sills.
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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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.756 | 0.652 |
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".