Lee Konitz “Mean to Me”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

139.4 s

Position in Track

00:14-02:34

Album Title

Jazz Edition, Quadromania, Lee Konitz, Sax of a Kind CD 4

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222453-444)

Recording Date

1954-08-06

Line Up

Lee Konitz (as); Ronnie Ball (p); Peter Ind (b); Jeff Morton (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

fe4174a2-5d20-4d29-a41d-017c70deb789

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

B1: ||Abj7   |Bb7 Eb7 |Abj7   |Db7 C7 |F-7   |Db7 C7 |F7   |F-7 Bb7 ||
A3: ||Ebj7 Eo |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 Bb-7Eb7|Abj7 Db7 |G-7 C7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 C-7 |F-7 Bb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

556

Number of Bars

81 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

138.9 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

3.99 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.89 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.92:1

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

45.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-80 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.4 %

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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