Clifford Brown “Joy Spring”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

94.7 s

Position in Track

01:42-03:17

Album Title

Brownie - The Complete EmArcy Recordings of Clifford Brown (Disc 2)

Label

Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd.0 (838 308-2)

Recording Date

1954-08-06

Line Up

Clifford Brown (tp); Harold Land (ts); Richie Powell (p); George Morrow (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

85cb589f-dfd3-4a37-be4c-faca633c4cf4

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Fj7   |G-7 C7 |Fj7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |Eb7 D7 |G-7 C7 |F   |Ab-7 Db7 |Gbj7   |Ab-7 Db7 |Gbj7   |B-7 E7 |Bb-7 A7 |Ab-7 Db7 |Gb   |A-7 D7 ||
B1: ||Gj7   |G-7 C7 |Fj7   |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |Ab-7 Db7 |Gbj7   |G-7 C7 ||
A2: ||Fj7   |G-7 C7 |Fj7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |A-7 D7 |G-7 C7 |F   |G-7 C7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

455

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

161.0 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.8 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.16 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.54:1

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

49.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-86 (33)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.4 %

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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