Fiddle Sound in Newfoundland in the 21st Century
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Newfoundland, a former British colony, possesses a varied and rich cultural heritage due to its unique settlement patterns and historical past. From the 16th century, European migrants from Ireland, Scotland, West-Country England, and France settled on the island and brought their various cultural practices with them. Traditions, including singing, dancing and playing the fiddle, came with the first European migrants and developed and evolved in different ways from the trajectory in the homeland. The unique historical, economic and social aspects of the island helped to shape initial fiddle styles. The writer has adopted the approach of analysing the historical, social and musical aspects of Newfoundland culture in order to gain a better understanding of Newfoundland fiddle music. This thesis investigates fiddle music in the main geographical areas of Newfoundland and establishes the characteristics and trends in each area. The study examines how fiddle music in Newfoundland has been shaped and influenced by the folk revival, technological advancements, mass-media influences, improved communications and personal preferences of individual fiddle players, and highlights the current trends in fiddle playing on the island. This thesis establishes whether there are indeed, distinctive Newfoundland fiddle styles evident in 21st century Newfoundland.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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.
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".