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Record W775571793 · doi:10.5206/notabene.v4i1.6566

Wagner’s Isolde: Questions of Female Representation in Opera

2011· article· en· W775571793 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Grainne Eva Blake

Bibliographic record

VenueNota bene · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOperaRepresentation (politics)ArtArt historyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Women sing. Women suffer. Women die. Among the musicological community, the perceived value of each of these matters is contingent on whether or not scholars view women as victims or equals in the opera tradition. Opera is built on one of the great natural parities, the equality of male and female voices.1 This vocal equality, the way “Women sing ” so competently and expressively, is said to enforce the idea that women are rarely seen as victims.2 On the other hand, classic libretti can be seen to represent a different type of woman, a woman that is often murdered or driven to suicide by men, a woman that is a victim of opera.3 Tristan and Isolde is one such opera that sees the female protagonist face a dreadful conclusion. However, Isolde is also a woman who shares vocal equality with the male protagonist. In the final scene, the Liebestod (love-death scene), Isolde’s lover has already died thus leaving Isolde with little reason to live. Instead of life, she yearns for redemption through death. Isolde sings herself to death in this climactic and imperative scene of the opera. Theories of equality and inequality collide here.

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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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.862
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

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)0.0130.000

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 head0.137
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.137 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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