Ornette Coleman “Bird Food”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

117.6 s

Position in Track

02:43-04:41

Album Title

Change of the Century

Label

Atlantic Records (7567-81341-2 (ursp. Atlantic 1327))

Recording Date

8-9.10.1959

Line Up

Ornette Coleman (as); Donald Cherry (p-tp); Charlie Haden (b); Billy Higgins (dr)

Style

FREE

Key

Signature

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FREE

MusicBrainz ID

88fb88ea-84c9-49ba-8a1a-43182deb4054

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

608

Number of Bars

502 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

255.8 (UP)

Event Density

5.17 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

1.21 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.22:1

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

34.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

54-80 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

44.2 %

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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