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  "id": "thet_mahachat",
  "name": "Thet mahachat (Thai Vessantara sermon chanting)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Thai Buddhist recitation of the Vessantara Jataka (Mahachat), the story of the Buddha's penultimate life, preached by monks in Thai verse in thirteen chapters (kan) at temple festivals. Celebrated preachers deliver it in the melodic lae style, an ornamented, heightened intonation of the text, and lae passages have also been borrowed into lûk thûng songs. It differs from Pali chant in being a Thai-language sermon meant to move and entertain the lay audience.",
  "recipe": "classic modern thet mahachat, ritual Devotional, buddhist branch. recitative rhythmically free pitched speech, solo unaccompanied, tonal language syllable tone locked melody. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
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  "score": 14.26,
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    "tuning": "aural_relative",
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    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
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      "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_recitative_free_rhythm",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
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}