Kenny Dorham “Serenity”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

44.5 s

Position in Track

00:39-01:24

Album Title

In’n’Out

Label

Blue Note (BST 84166)

Recording Date

1964-04-10

Line Up

Kenny Dorham (tp); McCoy Tyner (p); Richard Davis (b); Elvin Jones (dr); Joe Henderson (ts)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

f0acb184-449e-4489-99b3-388b7c96d1ee

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Dm7b5   |G+7   |Abj7 Gbj7 |E-7 A7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 Dm7b5G7|C-7 C-7/Bb |Ab-7 Db7 |G+7 Gb7 |F7   |Ej7   |F-7 Bb+7 |Ebj7   |Dm7b5 G+7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

181

Number of Bars

29 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

154.9 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.07 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.29 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.83:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3

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

Syncopicity

48.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-80 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.1 %

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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