Paul Desmond “The Girl from East 9th Street”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

108.8 s

Position in Track

01:04-02:53

Album Title

Bossa Antigua

Label

Rca Victor (0902668689-2)

Recording Date

1964-08-20

Line Up

Paul Desmond (as); Jim Hall (g); Eugen Wright (b); Connie Kay (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

031689b6-f503-4d9b-8f45-bc023b5e2004

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab   |Db7   |C-7   |C-7 F7 |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb-7   |Ab7   ||
B1: ||Db   |Db   |Db-7   |Db-7 Gb7 |B-7   |E7   |A7   |Bb-7 Eb7 ||
A2: ||Ab7   |Db7   |C-7   |C-7 F7 |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Eb-7   |Ab7   ||
B2: ||Db7   |Db-7 Gb7 |B   |F7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Ab   |Eb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

272

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

142.1 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

2.5 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.22 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.49:1

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

26.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-79 (22)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.5 %

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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