Instrumentality, Materiality, and the Guitar: Two Case Studies
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Abstract
In this thesis, I present two case studies discussing the ontology of the classical guitar as a dynamic material artifact and proposing the different types of "thingness" it assumes in two contrasting musical styles and historical eras.Drawing from the field of thing theory and Heideggerian philosophy I deconstruct the instrument's social role, historical position, and musical signification.By evaluating how this physical artifact interacts with human subjects I foreground its agency over that of the humans that manipulate it.The first chapter studies the role of the five-course guitar as an instrument of music theory in sixteenth and seventeenth century Iberia.Through the study of pedagogical texts by Amat (1596), Velasco (1640), Sanz (1674), and De Huete (1702), I draw out their implicit theoretical ideas including the tenets of alfabeto notation, the emancipation of the harmonic triad through the punto concept, and their refined understanding of tonal space and chordal inversion in the nascent theory of bajo continuo.The second chapter studies the role of the six-course guitar, and the derived "guitar chord," in the musical construction of an Argentine national identity in the work of Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983).For this purpose, I introduce a taxonomical system to evaluate these chords in terms of their local function, structural role, and pitch content, classifying them in a spectrum ranging from picturesque topoi to structural prime sonorities.Résumé Dans cette thèse, je présente deux études de cas discutant de l'ontologie de la guitare classique en tant qu'artefact matériel dynamique et proposant les différents types de « chose » qu'elle assume dans deux styles musicaux contrastés et époques historiques différentes.En m'appuyant sur le domaine de la théorie des choses et la philosophie heideggérienne, je déconstruis le rôle social de l'instrument, sa position historique et sa signification musicale.En évaluant comment cet artefact physique interagit avec les sujets humains, je mets en avant son agence par rapport à celle des humains qui le manipulent.Le premier chapitre étudie le rôle de la guitare à cinq cordes en tant qu'instrument de théorie musicale dans l'Espagne des XVIe et XVIIe siècles.À travers l'étude des textes pédagogiques d'Amat (1596), Velasco (1640), Sanz (1674) et De Huete (1702), j'expose leurs idées théoriques implicites, y compris les principes de la notation alfabeto, l'émancipation de la triade harmonique à travers le concept de punto, et leur compréhension affinée de l'espace tonal et de l'inversion des accords dans la théorie naissante du bajo continuo.Le deuxième chapitre étudie le rôle de la guitare à six cordes, et « l'accord de guitare » dérivé, dans la construction musicale de l'identité nationale argentine dans l'œuvre d'Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983).À cette fin, j'introduis un système taxonomique pour évaluer ces accords en termes de leur fonction locale, leur rôle structurel et leur contenu en hauteur, les classant dans un spectre allant des topoi pittoresques aux sonorités primordiales structurelles.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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