David Liebman “Begin the Beguine”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

66.4 s

Position in Track

02:32-03:39

Album Title

Plays The Music Of Cole Porter

Label

Red Records (RR 1232362CD)

Recording Date

1988

Line Up

David Liebman (ss); Steve Gilmore (b); Bill Goodwin (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   |Bbj79   |Bbj79   |Gbj79   |Abj79   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

319

Number of Bars

33 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

120.1 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.81 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

9.59 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.77:1

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

36.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-87 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.6 %

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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