{
  "id": "shomyo_japanese",
  "name": "Shōmyō (Japanese Buddhist liturgical chant)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Tendai-school-and-Shingon-school Japanese Buddhist sutra-chant tradition with characteristic neumed-melisma vocal-line preserving Tang-dynasty Chinese-Buddhist liturgical music transmitted via 8th-9th-century Japanese-monastic-pilgrimage. The two surviving lineages — Tendai-shōmyō (anchored at Mount Hiei monastic complex, established 805 CE by Saichō) and Shingon-shōmyō (anchored at Mount Kōya monastic complex, established 816 CE by Kūkai) — preserve separate but related sutra-and-bonbai canonical-chant-vocabulary repertoires. The chant unfolds in free-rhythm ametrical-pulse, layers single-monk solo-leader against full-monastic-choir responsorial sections, and uses three-pitch-level neumed notation (kotsufu) for melodic contour preservation across centuries.",
  "recipe": "classic East Asian mid-1930s shōmyō, ritual Devotional, buddhist branch, east Asian art music, indian subcontinent praise song tibetan ache lhamo opera beijing opera. vocal fry, breath veiled tone, slow rate, interlocked note trading. noh stage japanese. large-diaphragm condenser, tube pre, German tube console. 78rpm shellac.",
  "recipe_chars": 327,
  "score": 213.867,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "shomyo_japanese",
      "tibetan_ache_lhamo",
      "beijing_opera"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
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        "slots": {
          "voice_register": "vocal_fry",
          "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato",
          "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice",
          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "chinese_classical_vocal_tradition",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_tahrir_tekye_chain",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_bel_canto",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_carnatic_22_shruti",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_pitched_sample_melodic_bed"
        },
        "scores": {
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          "voice_articulation": 21.06,
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          "voice_tradition": 35.5225,
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          "voice_processing_chain": 5.720000000000001,
          "voice_multitrack_stack": 6.465000000000001
        }
      }
    ],
    "room": "noh_stage_japanese",
    "archetype": "arch_electrical_disc_cut",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "mic_u87_condenser_neumann",
      "pre": "tube_pre",
      "console": "colored",
      "comp": "comp_la2a_optical",
      "eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
    },
    "tuning": "japanese_in_scale",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "japanese_in_scale",
    "room": "noh_stage_japanese",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "chest_voice",
      "voice_quality": "opera_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_metrical_chant",
      "voice_tradition": "hindustani_dhrupad_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_dhrupad_meend_andolan",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
      "voice_vibrato": "fast_vibrato",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source"
    },
    "chain_mic": "mic_u87_condenser_neumann",
    "chain_pre": "tube_pre",
    "chain_comp": "comp_la2a_optical",
    "chain_eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
    "chain_console": "colored"
  }
}