Charlie Parker “Blues for Alice”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

52.0 s

Position in Track

00:18-01:10

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 4

Label

Proper Records (P1284)

Recording Date

1951-08-08

Line Up

Red Rodney (tp); Charlie Parker (as); John Lewis (p); Ray Brown (b); Kenny Clarke (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Fj7   |Em7b5 A79b |D-7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bb7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |A-7 D7 |Ab-7 Db7 |G-7   |C7   |Fj7 D-7 |G-7 C7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

279

Number of Bars

37 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

168.9 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

5.37 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.63 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.75:1

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

33.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-79 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

34.1 %

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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