David Murray “Body and Soul”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

118.7 s

Position in Track

01:58-03:57

Album Title

Morning Song

Label

Black Saint Records (BSR 0075 CD)

Recording Date

25, 26 & 30.09 1983

Line Up

David Murray (ts); John Hicks (p); Reggie Workman (b); Ed Blackwell (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Db-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

BALLAD

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

a8dc9b25-5c1d-4501-9bec-eca65b41d6a0

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb-7 Bb79b |Eb-7 D7 |Dbj7 Gb7 |F-7 Eo7 |Eb-7   |Cm7b5 F7 |Bb-7Eb7Eb-7Ab7|Db6 Bb7 ||
A2: ||Eb-7 Bb79b |Eb-7 D7 |Dbj7 Gb7 |F-7 Eo7 |Eb-7   |Cm7b5 F7 |Bb-7Eb7Eb-7Ab7|Db6 E-7A7||
B1: ||Dj7 E-7 |F#-7 G-7C7|F#-7B-7E-7A7|Dj7   |D-7 G7 |Cj7 Ebo |D-7 G7 |C7B7Bb7 ||
A3: ||Eb-7 Bb79b |Eb-7 D7 |Dbj7 Gb7 |F-7 Eo7 |Eb-7   |Cm7b5 F7 |Bb-7Eb7Eb-7Ab7|Db6Gb7Fm7b5Bb7||
I1: ||Eb-7 Bb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

564

Number of Bars

33 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

65.9 (SLOW)

Event Density

4.75 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

17.28 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.67:1

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

45.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-88 (44)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

47.2 %

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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