Bix Beiderbecke “Margie”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cor

Total Duration

19.5 s

Position in Track

01:45-02:04

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz - Jazz Lips CD 2

Label

History (20.3013-HI)

Recording Date

1928-09-21

Line Up

Bix Beiderbecke (cor); Bill Rank (tb); Izzy Friedman (cl); Min Leibrook (b); Lennie Hayton (p); Roy Bargy (p); George Marsh (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

43e09ccf-b2d1-47ad-b13e-e9c7fdc3d0fe

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab   |G7   |G7   |Eb   |Eb   |EbEb7D7Db7|C7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb   |Bb7   ||
I1: ||Eb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

62

Number of Bars

15 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

180.0 (UP)

Event Density

3.19 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.22 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.17:1

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

25.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

62-75 (13)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

45.2 %

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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