Gerry Mulligan “The Red Door”

Discographic Information

Instrument

bs

Total Duration

66.9 s

Position in Track

03:10-04:17

Album Title

Gerry Mulligan meets the Saxophonists

Label

Verve Records (LC0383 AAD)

Recording Date

1960

Line Up

Gerry Mulligan (bs); Zoot Sims (ts); Bob Brookmeyer (p); Buddy Clark (b); Mel Lewis (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

f96c0281-b9db-4722-ae51-5c963040d885

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G   |C-7 F7 |G   |C-7 F7 |Bb   |A-7 D7 |G   |A-7 D7 ||
A2: ||G   |C-7 F7 |G   |C-7 F7 |Bb   |A-6 D7 |G   |G7   ||
B1: ||C-   |Ab7 G7 |C-   |Ab7 G7 |Eb   |F-7 Bb7 |Eb7   |A-7 D7 ||
A3: ||G   |C-7 F7 |G   |C-7 F7 |Bb   |A-7 D7 |G   |A-7 D7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

359

Number of Bars

66 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

236.4 (UP)

Event Density

5.36 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.45 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.6:1

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

17.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

43-67 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

30.6 %

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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