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  "id": "vietnamese_quan_ho",
  "name": "Vietnamese quan họ Bắc Ninh",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Vietnamese quan họ Bắc Ninh antiphonal courtship-song tradition of the Bắc Ninh province, the Red River Delta region north of Hanoi. Performance involves paired female-and-male choral groups (liền chị women, liền anh men) from neighboring villages who exchange improvised verse-and-response over the course of a year of festival visits, with the courtship-exchange the formal narrative-arc of the repertoire. Vocal style features unaccompanied (originally — modern stage performance often adds chamber-ensemble accompaniment) two-or-three-voice female and male chorus in heterophonic-melodic-elaboration register, with characteristic Vietnamese pentatonic-modal vocabulary and the distinctive vibrato-ornament called nẩy hột (\"rice-grain vibrato,\" a precisely-articulated rapid pitch-and-amplitude wobble unique to quan họ vocal-aesthetic). Verse-forms draw on canonical four-line, six-eight-line, and seven-seven-six-eight Vietnamese poetic-meter structures. The forty-nine documented \"kết-chạ\" (sworn-sister-village) pair-relationships constitute the social-structural infrastructure of the tradition. Documentation records two hundred and forty-nine quan họ villages across the region. Distinguished from ca trù by quan họ's village-festival-collective (vs chamber-literary) functional context; distinguished from xoan (the adjacent ritual-village tradition) by quan họ's courtship-exchange (vs ancestor-veneration) functional framing; distinguished from southern Vietnamese đờn ca tài tử by northern Red-River-Delta dialect-specific cadential conventions.",
  "recipe": "classic modern vietnamese quan họ bắc ninh, art Music, southeast Asian branch, indigenous ritual devotional shipibo-conibo icaros healing songs mapuche tayil genealogical chant. vocal fry, breath veiled tone, straight note core, interlocked note trading. forest clearing. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 334,
  "score": 261.39,
  "config": {
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      "vietnamese_quan_ho",
      "shipibo_icaros",
      "mapuche_tayil_ritual"
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          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "terminal_vibrato",
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          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition",
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          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_nasal_twang",
          "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_tonal_language_constrained",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_harmonizer_ai_trained_stack",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_2010s_melodyne_microtuned"
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    ],
    "room": "forest_clearing",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
    "inline_chain": {
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      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
    },
    "tuning": "southeast_asian_pentatonic_popular_vocal",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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  "source": {
    "tuning": "southeast_asian_pentatonic_popular_vocal",
    "room": "forest_clearing",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "chest_voice",
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      "voice_tradition": "southeast_asian_folk_vocal_tradition",
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      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_microtone": "tempered_voice",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_none",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_speech",
      "voice_vibrato": "straight_tone",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source"
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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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}