David Liebman “Softly as in a Morning Sunrise”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

211.9 s

Position in Track

00:42-04:14

Album Title

Quest/Standards, The Jazz Workshop Series, David Liebman / Richard Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart

Label

Advance Music (B008HT8HME)

Recording Date

1988

Line Up

David Liebman (ss); Richard Beirach (p); Ron McCure (b); Billy Hart (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

a54842fb-130b-4b64-b899-01fd424a732e

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   ||
A2: ||C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   ||
B1: ||Eb79#   |Eb79#   |C79#   |C79#   |Ab7alt   |Ab7alt   |G7alt   |G7alt   ||
A3: ||C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   |C-   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

1098

Number of Bars

230 bars

Number of Choruses

7

Mean Tempo

260.7 (UP)

Event Density

5.18 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.77 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

19.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

58-90 (32)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

47.1 %

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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