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  "id": "shakers_singing",
  "name": "Shaker singing (Shaker hymnody)",
  "family": "classical",
  "lineage": "American Shaker (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing) song tradition, comprising over 10,000 documented hymns composed by Shaker community members in the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century Shaker communities of New England, New York, Ohio, and Kentucky. Performance: unison-and-octave congregational singing in characteristic strophic-narrative-or-praise form, often associated with the canonical Shaker \"labor\" of synchronized-rhythmic-walking-and-clapping worship-practice. The 1848 \"Simple Gifts\" composed by Joseph Brackett at Alfred, Maine became internationally famous after Aaron Copland's 1944 Appalachian Spring incorporation.",
  "recipe": "classic North American late-1840s shaker singing, ritual Devotional, christian gospel branch, American sacred ritual devotional. thick, declaimed, slow rate, interlocked note trading. mountain valley. passive ribbon, tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. tape 15ips.",
  "recipe_chars": 295,
  "score": 69.691,
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      "shakers_singing"
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          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
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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_belt",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_carnatic_22_shruti",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_chopped_sample_rhythmic_bed"
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    "room": "mountain_valley",
    "archetype": "arch_early_tape_us_commercial",
    "inline_chain": {
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      "pre": "tube_pre",
      "console": "colored",
      "comp": "comp_la2a_optical",
      "eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
    },
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "room": "mountain_valley",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "head_voice",
      "voice_quality": "opera_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_neumatic_singing",
      "voice_tradition": "baroque_ornamental_tradition",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_mid_1960s_double_tracking_era",
      "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"
    },
    "chain_mic": "condenser_ldc",
    "chain_pre": "tube_pre",
    "chain_comp": "comp_la2a_optical",
    "chain_eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
    "chain_console": "colored"
  }
}