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  "name": "Sacred Harp singing",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Southern-US shape-note congregational hymn-singing tradition preserved through the Sacred Harp tunebook (compiled by B.F. White and E.J. King 1844, revised through successive editions, the 1991 revision still in current use) — the tradition uses 4-shape and 7-shape notation (shapes assigned to scale degrees as a pedagogical mnemonic, facilitating singing without keyboard training), with the singing-square arrangement of four sections (treble / alto / tenor / bass) seated facing inward and led by a rotating song-leader who beats time with the hand",
  "recipe": "classic Southern American mid-1840s sacred harp singing, ritual Devotional, sacred harp branch, Celtic balladic ballad poetry welsh hymn-balladry welsh folk. thick, breath veiled tone, straight note core, interlocked note trading. a cappella small 3 to 8 one per part four voice polyphonic regional sardinian cantu a tenore oche mesu contra bassu sacred liturgical global choir ensemble, shape note voice, choir brother duet, pump organ harmonium, choir sacred harp. southern white church gospel quartet. small-diaphragm pencil condenser, portable field-recorder pre. tape 15ips.",
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    "archetype": "arch_nagra_ethnographic_field",
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      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
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      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
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    "tuning": "just_intonation",
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    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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    "tuning": "just_intonation",
    "room": "southern_white_church_gospel_quartet",
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      "voice_quality": "opera_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_neumatic_singing",
      "voice_tradition": "baroque_ornamental_tradition",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_just_intonation",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_microtone": "tempered_voice",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_bel_canto",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
      "voice_vibrato": "fast_vibrato",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source",
      "shape_note_part": "shape_tenor_lead",
      "shape_note_voice_context": "shape_note_voice_sacred_harp",
      "choir_size": "chamber_choir",
      "choir_ensemble_repertoire": "choir_ensemble_renaissance",
      "pump_organ_construction": "pump_organ_19th_parlor",
      "pump_organ_stops": "pump_organ_diapason_stop",
      "arrangement": "unison_to_split",
      "tradition": "duet_gospel",
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    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "clean"
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}