Paul Desmond “Blue Rondo a la Turk”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

98.0 s

Position in Track

02:12-03:50

Album Title

Time Out

Label

Columbia Records (CH 65122)

Recording Date

25 Juni - 18. August 1959

Line Up

Dave Brubeck (p); Paul Desmond (as); Eugene Wright (b); Joe Morello (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

b7606725-cb17-41a3-a1da-cbf0dc823d1d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |A-7 D7 |G-7   |C7   |F7 D7 |G-7 C7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

343

Number of Bars

48 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

117.1 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

3.5 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.18 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.41:1

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

36.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

54-80 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.3 %

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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