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  "id": "chinese_opera",
  "name": "Chinese Opera (xiqu regional traditions)",
  "family": "classical",
  "lineage": "Umbrella tradition of some three hundred Chinese sung-theatre forms descending from Yuan zaju and Ming kunqu, standardized regionally from the eighteenth century onward — jingju in Beijing after the 1790 Anhui troupes, yueju in Shanghai and Guangdong, chuanju in Sichuan, yuju in Henan — built on role-type vocal production (sheng, dan, jing, chou), a percussion-led ensemble whose bangu clapper-drum leader cues every entrance and gesture, bowed jinghu or erhu carrying the melodic line in fixed banqiang metrical types, and highly ornamented, nasal-forward, non-vibrato singing over pentatonic gong-based modes.",
  "recipe": "classic East Asian early-1790s chinese opera, art Music, east Asian branch, east Asian beijing opera, east Asian Cantonese opera, east Asian funeral lament. vocal fry, pressed, slow rate, interlocked note trading. erhuang narrative bamboo body beijing opera legato jinghu, python skin snake skin bamboo silk legato erhu, yueqin, piercing shrill high suona, paiban, theatrical opera bending gong tamtam, silk mahogany commercial grade pipa. chinese traditional teahouse. large-diaphragm condenser, German V72 tube pre, German tube console, broadcast loudness EQ. tape 15ips hall reverb.",
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      "chinese_opera",
      "beijing_opera",
      "cantonese_opera"
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          "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato",
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          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
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          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_tahrir_tekye_chain",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_recitative_free_rhythm",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_jingju_role",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_tonal_language_constrained",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_multiband_aggressive_broadcast",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_pitched_sample_melodic_bed"
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          "jinghu_mode": "jinghu_erhuang",
          "jinghu_articulation": "jinghu_legato_bow",
          "jinghu_body_wood": "jinghu_bamboo_body",
          "jinghu_strings": "jinghu_silk_historical"
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        "id": "erhu",
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          "erhu_skin": "erhu_python",
          "erhu_use": "erhu_jiangnan",
          "erhu_body_wood": "erhu_mahogany_body",
          "erhu_strings": "erhu_steel_modern",
          "erhu_bow": "erhu_bamboo_horsehair"
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      },
      {
        "id": "yueqin",
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          "yueqin_use": "yueqin_solo",
          "yueqin_construction": "yueqin_large_concert",
          "yueqin_strings": "yueqin_nylon_modern"
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      {
        "id": "suona",
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          "suona_size": "suona_gaoyin",
          "suona_context": "suona_opera_bangzi",
          "suona_body": "suona_sandalwood"
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      },
      {
        "id": "paiban",
        "slots": {
          "paiban_form": "paiban_three_slab"
        },
        "scores": {
          "paiban_form": 0
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      },
      {
        "id": "gong_tamtam",
        "slots": {
          "gong_type": "gong_opera_bending",
          "gong_striker": "gong_soft_mallet"
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        "scores": {
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      },
      {
        "id": "pipa",
        "slots": {
          "plucked_traditional_technique": "plucked_classical_idiom",
          "pipa_frets": "pipa_traditional_frets",
          "pipa_strings": "pipa_silk",
          "pipa_pick": "pipa_fingernail",
          "pipa_body_wood": "pipa_mahogany"
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      }
    ],
    "room": "chinese_traditional_teahouse",
    "archetype": "arch_china_record_state_broadcast",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "condenser_sdc",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
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      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_std"
    },
    "tuning": "chinese_pentatonic_gong",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "chinese_pentatonic_gong",
    "room": "chinese_traditional_teahouse",
    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "digital_std",
    "chain_console": "clean"
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}