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Record W4380421442 · doi:10.1017/9781800104990.014

Klein's Final Works in Prague

2022· other· en· W4380421442 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Fligg

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsViolinViolaCelloPianoQuarter (Canadian coin)GermanHistoryArtChamber musicArt historyLiteratureVisual artsArchaeology

Abstract

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During the German occupation and until his deportation in December 1941, Klein worked on several ambitious chamber works consecutively. Some are complete, or finished enough to be performed, but there are a number of fragments which are too incomplete for realisation. The Divertimento was a work in progress from June 1939, and completed in April 1940. The almost-complete Duo for Violin and Viola in the Quarter-Tone System was embarked on in late December 1939, when he was staying in Přerov, and was worked upon certainly until late February. The Preludium for Viola Solo is dated 3 April, and May and June 1940 were taken up with the Three Songs for High Voice and Piano , Op. 1. He worked on the String Quartet, Op. 2, for a year, from August 1940 until the following August. The incomplete Duo for Violin and Cello is dated November 1941. The string pieces among this group of works are very much companion works, exploring similar language and demonstrating his increasing confidence in writing for these instruments. The fair-copy manuscript of the Duo for Violin and Viola in the Quarter-Tone System carries the inscription ‘To Prof. Alois Hába in respect and devotion’, a fitting dedication for a work which draws on Hába's pioneering accomplishments in quarter-tone, or microtonal, music, and Klein's only music to employ Hába's system. His fair copy is of the first two movements only. The sketch of the third movement is reasonably detailed in terms of performance indications, although it replaces an aborted, crossed-out third movement, running to over 40 bars. In the absence of tempo and dynamics at its opening, the published edition of the Duo, edited by Milan Slavický and Vojtěch Saudek, proposes a maestoso and mezzo forte opening for the third movement. The aborted third movement opens Andante , with the instruments muted, and it can be argued that the extant third movement should follow this type of character, too, thereby providing some elegiac respite in an otherwise energetic work. The sketch of the fourth movement is also detailed, but is incomplete by its 34th bar. There is also an undated and incomplete Hába-inspired sketch with the title Fantasietta – Hába often used the title ‘Fantasy’ in his works – also for violin and viola in the quarter-tone system.

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Full frame machine prediction

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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.094
Threshold uncertainty score0.314

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.004
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.009
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0940.053

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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.187 · 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

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".

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