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Record W7106066452 · doi:10.7939/83210

Fantasy Vignettes

2025· dissertation· en· W7106066452 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Alberta Library · 2025
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBaroqueFantasyDepictionViolinDramaFemininityContext (archaeology)Masculinity

Abstract

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Abstract In my recital programme “Fantasy Vignettes,” I map the evolution of over 400 years of the violin fantasy in a series of four tableaus or vignettes. For each vignette in this presentation, I provide a complementary visual element through costumes that I have designed and created. The journey begins in the first vignette on the baroque violin with the earliest notated violin fantasia by Étienne Nau which is a rare transcription of a performance that would have been improvised by the violinist-composer. I present fantasias in the same vein by Nicola Matteis Jr. and Georg Philipp Telemann wearing a reconfiguration of baroque-inspired garments that mirror the patching together of preconfigured schemata in improvisation. I set the stage here by drawing attention to the close relationship between fantasy, improvisation and performance in the dual roles of violinist-composer. In the second vignette, I frame Robert Schumann’s violin fantasy in the context of his literary characters Florestan and Eusebius which represent the feminine and masculine aspects of identity. I portray this split personality by wearing an outfit that is half tailcoat and trousers similar to what Robert would have worn, and half gown such his wife and accomplished pianist and composer, Clara Schumann might have donned. I intend for this to continue to call into question the construct of masculinity and femininity as it pertains to clothing and physical presentation. I attribute additional meaning to the depiction of multiplicity of personalities because of my identity as both a modern and baroque violinist. The third Vignette is constructed by placing Fantasies by Florence Price and Arnold Schoenberg side by side. Here, I explore the theme of freedom both in a compositional and socio-political sense. To represent the 12-tone hexachordal structure of Schoenberg’s piece, I have combined 12 colour tones of sheer fabric into 144 differently-coloured patchwork hexagons in repeating rows. Motifs of emancipation permeate the works of both composers, and I have used the patchwork structure to draw attention to the ways that humans strive to piece together meanings and liberate their existences as they explore their roots and traditions. I conclude the recital with a collaborative original work by Canadian composer Mari Alice Conrad. This work is a reflection and commentary on the programme as a whole and incorporates sewing machines and accessories as instruments. For this new work, I have created a simple needle costume to represent the thread that stitches the programme together and the merger in my artistic life of the identities of musician, composer, designer and improviser.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.619
Threshold uncertainty score0.990

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0560.000

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.168
Teacher spread0.159 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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