Bibliographic record
Abstract
On 7 November 1955 William Alwyn's birthday was marked by a broadcast of his Festival March on the Home Service. He was 50 years old, and it was time to take stock. His diary, polished for publication in 1967, records his daily life for the twelve months following September 1955: he had already retired from his professorship at the RAM , he started composing his Third Symphony (1955–6). There were meetings with Roger Manvell and John Huntley about a major book on film music, and after much heart-searching he turned down the prestigious appointment of Head of Music for BBC Television - he could not face his “creative work reduced to a spare-time pursuit”. He undertook two major film scores to be completed within six weeks, one of which, Safari , he felt, “does not stimulate me to much enthusiasm, but difficult to reject as I shall need the money to pay for the time that must be devoted entirely to the symphony”. Terence Young's film is an uneasily scripted, directed, and acted tale of a white Kenyan hunter, Duffield (Victor Mature), employed by the rich patron Brampton (Roland Culver) to hunt a famous lion. This familiar situation is complicated by the menace of the Mau-Mau and Duffield's determination to search out the murderer of his family. A romantic interest is provided by Brampton's fiancee Linda (Janet Leigh). Alwyn's diary reveals the stress of composition. On 16 December he received the first editor's “lengths”, and he started work on his sketches. He found the blank manuscript paper “a reproach and a demand - an urgent and frightening reminder that the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has been engaged for three whole days in a few weeks time to perform and record this non-existent music”. “Tense with anxiety and apprehension”, Alwyn exhausted himself in the first two days, “ideas forced out like drops from a squeezed lemon”. By 27 December he was working at the orchestration, and on 11 January, having almost finished, he took time off to look at his symphony again, before starting work the next day on The Black Tent . A few days earlier, the stress of composing against the clock had brought worries of the suspicion that my work is deteriorating into mere mechanical processes; no consolation that these processes are technically ingenious.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.687 | 0.551 |
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".