Sonny Rollins “St. Thomas (2)”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

69.0 s

Position in Track

03:50-04:59

Album Title

Saxophone Collosus

Label

Prestige (OJCCD-291-2)

Recording Date

1956-06-22

Line Up

Tommy Flanagan (p); Doug Watkins (b); Max Roach (dr); Sonny Rollins (ts)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

743ab1b8-c929-4f2f-8ee0-401a01434144

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C69   |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |C69   |C69   |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |C69   ||
B1: ||Em7b5   |A79#   |D-7   |G7   |C69 C7/E |F F#o |C/G G7 |C79   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

366

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

224.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.31 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.67 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.55:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

2+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

21.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-76 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.5 %

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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