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  "name": "Domba (Venda girls' initiation python dance)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Final stage of Venda girls' initiation, organised at a chief's court, in which the initiates dance in a tight, linked line likened to a python while a large drum is played and domba songs are sung in call and response; the teachings of the school are passed on through its songs and formulas. John Blacking recorded and studied domba in the 1950s, and his recordings are held at the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives. The membrane-drum card stands in for the ngoma drum.",
  "recipe": "classic mid-1950s domba, ritual Devotional, indigenous branch. single leader group response. membrane drum pulse resonant acoustic membrane drum. field recording. small-diaphragm pencil condenser, portable field-recorder pre. tape 15ips.",
  "recipe_chars": 237,
  "score": 10.796,
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          "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
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          "voice_articulation": "voice_articulation_source_unspecified",
          "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
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          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_speech_song_local_unspecified",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_call_response_leader_group",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
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          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_live_ensemble",
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          "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture_resonant"
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      "acoustic_membrane_drum": [
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        "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture"
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    "room": "field_recording",
    "archetype": "arch_nagra_ethnographic_field",
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      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
    },
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "room": "field_recording",
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      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
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      "voice_vibrato": "voice_vibrato_local_unspecified",
      "voice_articulation": "voice_articulation_source_unspecified",
      "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
      "voice_tradition": "voice_tradition_source_unspecified",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_speech_song_local_unspecified",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_call_response_leader_group",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_live_ensemble",
      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
      "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": "acoustic_membrane_drum_form_unspecified",
      "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture_resonant"
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    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
    "chain_console": "clean"
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}