Don Byas “Body and Soul”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

155.6 s

Position in Track

00:00-02:35

Album Title

The Chronological Classis: Don Byas 1947

Label

Classic Records ()

Recording Date

1947

Line Up

Don Byas (ts); Billy Taylor (p); Jean Bouchety (b); Buford Oliver (dr);

Style

SWING

Key

Db-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

254b3d16-a2e6-4bc1-9dee-ef972cc0f36d

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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|Db A7 ||
B1: ||Dj7 E-7 |D 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|Db6 Bb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

723

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

98.6 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

4.65 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

11.3 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.27:1

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

39.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-79 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.5 %

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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