Bibliographic record
Abstract
Hoch, Matthew. A Dictionary for the Modern Singer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Cloth, xii, 306 pp., $75.00. ISBN 978-0-8108-8655-1; e-book, $74.99. ISBN 978-0-8108-8656-8 www.rowman.comThis dictionary is the first in a series of reference books by Scarecrow Press intended, according the publisher, to fully cover the field of study and performance for the contemporary musician. Author Matthew Hoch, in the introduction this dictionary for singers, underlines that the book is a general resource. and teachers can consult this book for brief explanations of topics germane singing, and consult the bibliography for sources of additional information.The dictionary encompasses nearly 2000 entries and more than 200 pages. The lexicon is vast, encompassing anatomy, pedagogy, performers, teachers, terms, and vocal music of many genres. It offers general information about theory, history, and music literature, and includes singers of numerous styles, stage directors, collaborative pianists, choral conductors, and acting teachers. Cross-referenced terms appear in boldface. The subjects are eclectic (as evidenced by three successive entries: Armenian chant, Armstrong, Louis, and ars antiqua), and none of the explanations are long. Hoch, who wrote most of the entries, explains each term in clear, articulate prose. (In the opening material, the author acknowledges that he enlisted the aid of colleagues for a few subjects, such as audio technology and yoga.) Sixty black and white illustrations include photographs of singers, anatomic drawings, audio graphs, and music examples.In addition the dictionary, the volume includes essays by five authors on relevant topics. In the first, Jeannette LoVetri, founder of the Somatic Voicework method, contrasts classical and contemporary commercial music (CCM). The latter is the umbrella term for a wide variety of styles, including-but not limited to-pop, music theater, gospel, jazz, R B the same volume is the source for the material in another appendix entitled Listening Singers that lists fifteen descriptors for aural analysis. There is a translation and explanation of the classifications of the Fach system as set forth by Rudolf Kloiber in Handbuch der Oper (Munich: Barenreiter-Verlag Kassel, 2011). A fourth, albeit brief, appendix contains the definition of bel canto proffered by James Stark in Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). …
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.070 | 0.065 |
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".