Bibliographic record
Abstract
Regionalism is the cultural trend in which the idiosyncrasies of a given region, and their influence on human lives, social structures, and cultural development, are explored and expressed through an artistic medium. This trend emerged in Canadian literature in the 1920’s and 30’s, and experienced a resurgence in prominence in the 1970’s. However, the significance of regionalism in Canadian art music remains virtually unexplored. The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of regionalism in the four Beckwith/Reaney operas: Night Blooming Cereus (1959), The Shivaree (1982), Crazy to Kill (1989), and Taptoo! (2003). The author extrapolates from a literary understanding of regionalism to create a framework of analysis for these four musical works. Beckwith and Reaney employed regionalism as a vehicle for innovation within the operatic form, and exploited the tension between European operatic norms and authentic portrayals of life in rural Ontario with these works. The concluding chapter situates these operas within the context of the twentieth-century Canadian opera marketplace through an examination of composition and performance history, and examines the influence of regionalism on their critical and popular reception.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
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".