Lee Konitz “Wow”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

20.9 s

Position in Track

00:41-01:02

Album Title

Sax of a Kind

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222453-444/A)

Recording Date

1949-03-04

Line Up

Wayne Marsh (ts); Billy Bauer (g); Arnold Fishkin (b); Harold Granowsky (dr); Lennie Tristano (p); Lee Konitz (as)

Style

COOL

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

20c1afef-6aa7-4db4-88f1-a917954037e8

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G-7   |C7   |F6   |A- Abj7 |Gj7   |Gb-7   |F6   |F#o   ||
B1: ||G-7   |C7   |F6   |A-7 Abj7 |Gj7   |Gb-7   |Fj7   |Fj7   ||
I1: ||C-   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

119

Number of Bars

15 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

173.7 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

5.7 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.86 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.43:1

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

12.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-78 (21)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

26.9 %

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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