{ "id": "chanson", "name": "Chanson", "family": "pop", "lineage": "French song tradition professionalized in the Paris music halls and cabarets from the 1930s and codified by Édith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré through the 1950s and 60s — text-primary settings in which prosody and rhyme govern the melodic rhythm, accompanied by piano, accordion, nylon-string guitar and double bass or a full studio orchestra, in rubato verse alternating with waltz or slow-four refrains, sung with rolled r, forward nasal placement and a declamatory build to the final chorus.", "recipe": "classic Western European mid-1930s chanson, ballad Poetry, classic chanson branch, chanson fado post chanson, crooners functional song, chanson fado fado lisboa baladas y boleros. extended whistle, breath veiled tone, slow rate, interlocked note trading. piano accordion, Japanese factory birch laminated maple laminated Asian spruce hokkaido source grand piano, cedar nylon fingerpicked classical nylon-string guitar, venice catlin high twist renaissance bass norway spruce European alpine double bass, string quartet inst, ebonite hard rubber klezmer tradition clarinet. intimate paris small studio. Neumann U47, German V72 tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, passive program EQ. tape 15ips plate reverb.", "recipe_chars": 710, "score": 226.135, "config": { "traditions": [ "chanson", "fado", "baladas_y_boleros" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "extended_whistle_register", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_nasal_twang", "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_connemara_unaccompanied", "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_pelog_7", "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_plate_reverb_medium", "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_mid_1960s_double_tracking_era" }, "scores": { "voice_register": 5.85, "voice_quality": 16.70499999999999, "voice_vocal_tract": 0, "voice_effort": 0, "voice_vibrato": 3.2824999999999998, "voice_articulation": 19.305, "voice_microtone": 18.069999999999997, "voice_tradition": 7.5725, "voice_mechanism_compound": 4.03, "voice_estill_quality": 5.2325, "voice_speech_song": 25.772500000000004, "voice_ensemble_config": 21.255000000000003, "voice_ornament_system": 2.33, "voice_pitch_organization": 1.7899999999999998, "voice_processing_chain": 5.9799999999999995, "voice_multitrack_stack": 2.9250000000000007 } }, { "id": "piano_accordion", "slots": { "free_reed_technique": "free_reed_folk_first_position", "pa_size": "pa_72_bass", "pa_use": "pa_french_chanson" }, "scores": { "free_reed_technique": 1.4249999999999998, "pa_size": 0.15, "pa_use": 0.995 } }, { "id": "grand_piano", "slots": { "keyboard_technique": "keyboard_arpeggio_sustain_rich", "grand_piano_size": "grand_9_foot", "grand_piano_brand": "steinway_d", "piano_hammer": "japanese_1980s_hammer", "piano_rim": "asian_laminated_rim_birch_maple", "piano_soundboard": "asian_spruce_soundboard", "piano_pinblock": "hexagrip_7_ply_quartersawn_maple", "piano_plate": "gray_iron_full_perimeter_plate", "piano_pitch_standard": "a_442_european" }, "scores": { "keyboard_technique": 4, "grand_piano_size": 2.2800000000000002, "grand_piano_brand": 2.78, "piano_hammer": 3.8449999999999998, "piano_rim": 7.6850000000000005, "piano_soundboard": 5, "piano_pinblock": 1.625, "piano_plate": 3.17, "piano_pitch_standard": 6.71 } }, { "id": "classical_nylon_string_guitar", "slots": { "acoustic_technique": "acoustic_fingerpicked", "string_tuning": "standard_tuning", "top_wood_classical": "cedar_cl", "bracing_classical": "fan_torres_cl", "string_classical": "nylon_normal_cl", "attack_technique_cl": "apoyando_cl" }, "scores": { "acoustic_technique": 7.620000000000001, "string_tuning": 0, "top_wood_classical": 7.8, "bracing_classical": 0.65, "string_classical": 2.0799999999999996, "attack_technique_cl": 1.92 } }, { "id": "double_bass", "slots": { "bowed_technique": "bowed_pizzicato", "bass_size": "bass_three_quarter", "bass_strings": "venice_catlin_bass", "bass_top_wood": "norway_spruce_alpine_bass", "bass_back_wood": "european_maple_bass_back", "bass_varnish": "oil_amber_varnish_bass", "bass_setup_period": "modern_setup_bass", "bass_play": "bass_arco", "bass_rosin": "pop_kolstein_rosin", "bass_bow_stick": "pernambuco_stick_bass" }, "scores": { "bowed_technique": 1.125, "bass_size": 1.8900000000000001, "bass_strings": 1.8849999999999998, "bass_top_wood": 1.325, "bass_back_wood": 2.565, "bass_varnish": 1.625, "bass_setup_period": 2.1125, "bass_play": 0.78, "bass_rosin": 3.665, "bass_bow_stick": 1.7249999999999999 } }, { "id": "string_quartet_inst", "slots": { "bowed_technique": "bowed_legato_classical", "quartet_school": "quartet_modern", "string_quartet_inst_era": "string_quartet_inst_romantic" }, "scores": { "bowed_technique": 1.025, "quartet_school": 0.65, "string_quartet_inst_era": 2.34 } }, { "id": "clarinet", "slots": { "wind_articulation": "wind_classical_legato", "clarinet_body": "ebonite_clarinet", "clarinet_size": "e_flat_clarinet", "clarinet_reed": "soft_clarinet_reed", "clarinet_articulation": "doina_clarinet" }, "scores": { "wind_articulation": 0.875, "clarinet_body": 2.4050000000000002, "clarinet_size": 0.845, "clarinet_reed": 0.65, "clarinet_articulation": 0.6 } } ], "room": "intimate_paris_small_studio", "archetype": "arch_paris_chanson_orchestral", "inline_chain": { "mic": "mic_u47_tube_neumann", "pre": "pre_tube_german_v72", "console": "console_german_tube_50s", "comp": "comp_fairchild_670_tube", "eq": null, "amp": null, "medium": "tape_15ips" }, "tuning": "twelve_tet", "aesthetic": null, "arrangement": null, "fx_extras": [] }, "source": { "tuning": "twelve_tet", "room": "intimate_paris_small_studio", "chain_mic": "mic_u47_tube_neumann", "chain_pre": "pre_tube_german_v72", "chain_comp": "comp_fairchild_670_tube", "chain_medium": "tape_15ips", "chain_console": "console_german_tube_50s" } }