Johnny Dodds “Hotter than That”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cl

Total Duration

36.2 s

Position in Track

00:40-01:16

Album Title

College Music Sociecty Sourcebooks in American Music, Louis Armstrong, The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrogn

Label

Pendragon Press, New York (978-1-57647-120-3)

Recording Date

1927-12-13

Line Up

Louis Armstrong (cor); Kid Ory (tb); Johnny Dodds (cl); Lillian Hardin Armstrong (p); Johnny St. Cyr (bjo)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

6600913f-866e-46dc-b726-f3df972d5afb

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb   |Eb   ||
B1: ||Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab   |Ab   |Ao   |Eb   |C7   |F7   |Bb7   |Eb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

170

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

212.4 (UP)

Event Density

4.7 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.31 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

28.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

67-87 (20)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

53.5 %

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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