{ "id": "minstrel_show_music", "name": "Minstrel-show music (19th-century blackface stage song)", "family": "pop", "lineage": "Music of the blackface minstrel show, the racist stage entertainment in which mostly white performers caricatured African Americans, launched as a full evening by the Virginia Minstrels in New York in 1843 and dominant in American popular theatre through the later 19th century; Black troupes also worked within the form after the Civil War. The early minstrel band of fretless, gut-strung five-string banjo, fiddle, bones and tambourine played reels, jigs and walkarounds behind comic songs and dances, while later shows added sentimental ballads and brass bands, and minstrel songs were among the material on the first commercial cylinders.", "recipe": "classic early-1840s minstrel-show music, spoken Word, stage performance branch. solo with instrumental accompaniment. calfskin plain gut minstrel pre 1860s fretless canon low minstrel bridge banjo 5 string, gut fiddle, rhythm bones, tambourine orch. blanket damped 1925-1945 commercial-major electrical era office. acoustic horn. 78rpm shellac.", "recipe_chars": 344, "score": 19.45, "config": { "traditions": [ "minstrel_show_music" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "banjo_5_string", "slots": { "banjo_back": "open_back", "tone_ring": "no_ring", "banjo_head": "calfskin", "banjo_pot": "pot_11", "banjo_play": "clawhammer", "banjo_rim_wood": "banjo_mahogany_rim", "banjo_neck_wood": "banjo_mahogany_neck", "banjo_strings": "banjo_gut_minstrel", "banjo_bridge": "banjo_minstrel_bridge", "banjo_setup_period": "banjo_minstrel_period_setup" }, "scores": { "banjo_back": 0, "tone_ring": 0, "banjo_head": 1.3, "banjo_pot": 0, "banjo_play": 0.1365, "banjo_rim_wood": 0, "banjo_neck_wood": 0.168, "banjo_strings": 4.46, "banjo_bridge": 2.0735, "banjo_setup_period": 4.3735 } }, { "id": "fiddle", "slots": { "bowed_technique": "bowed_chopped_old_time", "fiddle_strings": "gut_strings", "fiddle_bow": "light_rosin", "fiddle_mute": "no_mute", "fiddle_articulation": "arco", "fiddle_string_configuration": "fiddle_string_configuration_unspecified" }, "scores": { "bowed_technique": -0.07, "fiddle_strings": 1.25, "fiddle_bow": 0.1365, "fiddle_mute": 1.3, "fiddle_articulation": 1, "fiddle_string_configuration": 0 } }, { "id": "rhythm_bones", "slots": { "bones_material": "bones_rib_bone", "bones_pair": "bones_single_pair" }, "scores": { "bones_material": 0, "bones_pair": 0.1995 } }, { "id": "tambourine_orch", "slots": { "tambourine_orch_jingle": "tambourine_orch_brass", "tambourine_orch_context": "tambourine_orch_orch" }, "scores": { "tambourine_orch_jingle": 0.9814999999999999, "tambourine_orch_context": 0 } }, { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "voice_register_source_unspecified", "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "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_solo_accompanied", "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_single_lead", "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified" }, "scores": { "voice_register": 0, "voice_quality": 0, "voice_vocal_tract": 0, "voice_effort": 0, "voice_vibrato": 0, "voice_articulation": 0, "voice_microtone": 0, "voice_tradition": 0, "voice_mechanism_compound": 0, "voice_estill_quality": 0, "voice_speech_song": 0, "voice_ensemble_config": 1.0185000000000002, "voice_ornament_system": 0, "voice_pitch_organization": 0, "voice_processing_chain": 0.2415, "voice_multitrack_stack": 0.4305, "voice_tessitura": 0 } } ], "pinned": { "banjo_5_string": [ "banjo_back", "tone_ring", "banjo_head", "banjo_pot", "banjo_play", "banjo_rim_wood", "banjo_neck_wood", "banjo_strings", "banjo_bridge", "banjo_setup_period" ], "fiddle": [ "bowed_technique", "fiddle_strings", "fiddle_bow", "fiddle_mute", "fiddle_articulation", "fiddle_string_configuration" ], "rhythm_bones": [ "bones_material", "bones_pair" ], "tambourine_orch": [ "tambourine_orch_jingle", "tambourine_orch_context" ], "voice": [ "voice_register", "voice_quality", "voice_vocal_tract", "voice_effort", "voice_vibrato", "voice_articulation", "voice_microtone", "voice_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound", "voice_estill_quality", "voice_speech_song", "voice_ensemble_config", "voice_ornament_system", "voice_pitch_organization", "voice_processing_chain", "voice_multitrack_stack", "voice_tessitura" ] }, "room": "studio_electrical_era_office", "archetype": "arch_acoustic_horn_pre1925", "inline_chain": { "mic": "mic_acoustic_horn_pre1925", "pre": "transformer_solid_state", "console": "colored", "comp": null, "eq": null, "amp": null, "medium": "shellac_78" }, "tuning": "twelve_tet", "aesthetic": null, "arrangement": null, "fx_extras": [] }, "source": { "tuning": "twelve_tet", "room": "studio_electrical_era_office", "parts": { "banjo_back": "open_back", "tone_ring": "no_ring", "banjo_head": "calfskin", "banjo_pot": "pot_11", "banjo_play": "clawhammer", "banjo_rim_wood": "banjo_mahogany_rim", "banjo_neck_wood": "banjo_mahogany_neck", "banjo_strings": "banjo_gut_minstrel", "banjo_bridge": "banjo_minstrel_bridge", "banjo_setup_period": "banjo_minstrel_period_setup", "bowed_technique": "bowed_chopped_old_time", "fiddle_strings": "gut_strings", "fiddle_bow": "light_rosin", "fiddle_mute": "no_mute", "fiddle_articulation": "arco", "fiddle_string_configuration": "fiddle_string_configuration_unspecified", "bones_material": "bones_rib_bone", "bones_pair": "bones_single_pair", "tambourine_orch_jingle": "tambourine_orch_brass", "tambourine_orch_context": "tambourine_orch_orch", "voice_register": "voice_register_source_unspecified", "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "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_solo_accompanied", "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_single_lead", "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified" }, "pin_parts": true, "chain_mic": "mic_acoustic_horn_pre1925", "chain_pre": "transformer_solid_state", "chain_medium": "shellac_78", "chain_console": "colored" } }