Paul Desmond “Samba Cantina”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

103.5 s

Position in Track

01:01-02:44

Album Title

Bossa Antigua

Label

Rca Victor (0902668689-2)

Recording Date

1964-07-28

Line Up

Paul Desmond (as); Jim Hall (g); Eugen Wright (b); Connie Kay (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

F-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

bf6d228a-da62-4bc9-a54f-3bf160ccbd77

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Gm7b5   |C79b   |F-7   |F-7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Abj7   |Abj7   |Gm7b5   |C7   |F-7   |F-7   |Dm7b5   |G79b   |C79b   |C79b   ||
B1: ||Gm7b5   |C79b   |F-7   |F-7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Cm7b5   |F79b   |Bb-7   |Gm7b5 C7 |F-7   |Dm7b5 Db7 |C7   |C7   |F-7   |F-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

292

Number of Bars

65 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

150.8 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

2.82 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.49 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.34:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4

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

Syncopicity

16.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-79 (22)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.8 %

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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