Benny Carter “Long Ago and Far Away (2)”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

49.0 s

Position in Track

02:09-02:58

Album Title

Battle of Saxes Volume 2

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222276-354)

Recording Date

1952-09-18

Line Up

Benny Carter (as); Oscar Peterson (p); Barney Kessel (g); Ray Brown (b); Buddy Rich (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

fe2804a8-b1fa-4a1a-bd51-96dad7b09b12

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F6 D-7 |G-7 C7 |Fj7 D-7 |G-7 C7 |F6   |G-7 C7 |F6 D7 |G-7 C7 ||
B1: ||Ab6 F-7 |Bb-7 Eb7 |Abj7   |G7   |Cj7   |A-7   |G-7   |C7   ||
A2: ||F6 D-7 |G-7 C7 |Fj7 D-7 |G-7 C7 |F6 D-7 |G-7 C7 |F6 D7 |G-7 C7 ||
C1: ||C-7   |F7   |Bbj7   |Bb-6 Eb7 |F6/A Abo7 |G-7 C7 |F6   |G-7 C7 |F6/A Abo7 |G-7 C7 |F6   |F6   |F6   |F6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

254

Number of Bars

38 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

185.8 (UP)

Event Density

5.19 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.69 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.62:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

1+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

13.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-77 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.9 %

Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

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Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

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MIDI Pitch Histogram

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Semitone Interval Histogram

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Refined Contour Histogram

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Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

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Metrical circle maps divides the bar duration into equal sized bins (48 in this case) and maps metrical positions to the corresponding bin. (Labels normalized to 4/4 measure).

Duration Class (Abs. and Rel.) Histogram

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Relative duration classes are based on the duration of the beat. Absolute duration classes are based on 120 bpm. See here for a definition of classes.

Midlevel Analysis Main Types Histogram

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Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

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