Don Byas “Harvard Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

29.2 s

Position in Track

00:35-01:04

Album Title

Moon Nocturne

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222414-444/A)

Recording Date

1945-08-30

Line Up

Don Byas (ts); Erroll Garner (p); Slam Stewart (b); Doc West (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

Db-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

b5147d0f-81ce-4834-9097-d8e486d9e7a2

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Db7   |Gb7 Go |Db Db7 |Bb-7 Db7 |Gb7   |Gb7 Go |Db7   |Db7 Ao |Ab7   |Gb7   |Db7   |Db7   ||
I1: ||NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

72

Number of Bars

12 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

98.5 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

2.46 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.99 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.84:1

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

29.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-65 (19)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

52.8 %

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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