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  "id": "teochew_opera_chaoju",
  "name": "Chaoju (Teochew opera)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Opera in the Teochew dialect of the Chaozhou-Shantou region of eastern Guangdong, descended from Ming-dynasty southern drama and carried to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia by the Teochew diaspora; it is on China's national intangible heritage list (2006). Singers keep the southern-drama practice of an offstage chorus (bangsheng) taking up line endings, over an orchestra led by the high touxian fiddle with coconut fiddle, yangqin and pipa, and a large gong-and-drum section headed by the drummer.",
  "recipe": "classic mid-2000s chaoju, art Music, east Asian branch. driving lead melodic touxian, yehu, traditional bamboo yangqin, pipa, daluo, membrane drum pulse resonant acoustic membrane drum. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 265,
  "score": 20.493,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "teochew_opera_chaoju"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "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_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_single_lead",
          "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "voice_register": 0,
          "voice_quality": 0,
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          "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": -0.10500000000000001,
          "voice_ornament_system": 0,
          "voice_pitch_organization": 0,
          "voice_processing_chain": 0,
          "voice_multitrack_stack": 0.39,
          "voice_tessitura": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "touxian",
        "slots": {
          "bowed_technique": "bowed_local_song_melody",
          "touxian_role": "touxian_role_opera",
          "touxian_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
          "touxian_idiom": "touxian_idiom_driving"
        },
        "scores": {
          "bowed_technique": 0.9984999999999999,
          "touxian_role": 2.4890000000000003,
          "touxian_strings": 0,
          "touxian_idiom": 3.743
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      },
      {
        "id": "yehu",
        "slots": {
          "bowed_technique": "bowed_local_song_melody",
          "yehu_form": "yehu_form_boxian",
          "yehu_setting": "yehu_setting_xianshi",
          "yehu_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
          "yehu_tuning": "yehu_tuning_g_d"
        },
        "scores": {
          "bowed_technique": 0.9984999999999999,
          "yehu_form": 2.56325,
          "yehu_setting": 3.0905,
          "yehu_strings": 0,
          "yehu_tuning": 0.25
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "yangqin",
        "slots": {
          "yangqin_courses": "yangqin_402_modern",
          "yangqin_technique": "yangqin_bamboo_mallets"
        },
        "scores": {
          "yangqin_courses": 0.399,
          "yangqin_technique": 1.1195
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "pipa",
        "slots": {
          "plucked_traditional_technique": "plucked_classical_idiom",
          "pipa_frets": "pipa_modern_frets",
          "pipa_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
          "pipa_pick": "pipa_fingerpicks",
          "pipa_body_wood": "pipa_red_sandalwood"
        },
        "scores": {
          "plucked_traditional_technique": -0.035,
          "pipa_frets": 0.168,
          "pipa_strings": 0,
          "pipa_pick": 0,
          "pipa_body_wood": -0.035
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "daluo",
        "slots": {
          "daluo_type": "daluo_chaozhou",
          "daluo_beater": "daluo_padded"
        },
        "scores": {
          "daluo_type": 0.3,
          "daluo_beater": 0.279
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "acoustic_membrane_drum",
        "slots": {
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": "acoustic_membrane_drum_form_unspecified",
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture_resonant"
        },
        "scores": {
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": 1.69,
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": 1.69
        }
      }
    ],
    "pinned": {
      "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"
      ],
      "touxian": [
        "bowed_technique",
        "touxian_role",
        "touxian_strings",
        "touxian_idiom"
      ],
      "yehu": [
        "bowed_technique",
        "yehu_form",
        "yehu_setting",
        "yehu_strings",
        "yehu_tuning"
      ],
      "yangqin": [
        "yangqin_courses",
        "yangqin_technique"
      ],
      "pipa": [
        "plucked_traditional_technique",
        "pipa_frets",
        "pipa_strings",
        "pipa_pick",
        "pipa_body_wood"
      ],
      "daluo": [
        "daluo_type",
        "daluo_beater"
      ],
      "acoustic_membrane_drum": [
        "acoustic_membrane_drum_form",
        "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture"
      ]
    },
    "room": "field_recording",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "mic_pair_ortf",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": "comp_none",
      "eq": "eq_none",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
    },
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "room": "field_recording",
    "parts": {
      "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_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_single_lead",
      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
      "bowed_technique": "bowed_local_song_melody",
      "touxian_role": "touxian_role_opera",
      "touxian_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
      "touxian_idiom": "touxian_idiom_driving",
      "yehu_form": "yehu_form_boxian",
      "yehu_setting": "yehu_setting_xianshi",
      "yehu_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
      "yehu_tuning": "yehu_tuning_g_d",
      "yangqin_courses": "yangqin_402_modern",
      "yangqin_technique": "yangqin_bamboo_mallets",
      "plucked_traditional_technique": "plucked_classical_idiom",
      "pipa_frets": "pipa_modern_frets",
      "pipa_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
      "pipa_pick": "pipa_fingerpicks",
      "pipa_body_wood": "pipa_red_sandalwood",
      "daluo_type": "daluo_chaozhou",
      "daluo_beater": "daluo_padded",
      "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": "acoustic_membrane_drum_form_unspecified",
      "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture_resonant"
    },
    "pin_parts": true,
    "chain_mic": "mic_pair_ortf",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_comp": "comp_none",
    "chain_eq": "eq_none",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}