Eric Dolphy “Dahomey Dance”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

135.2 s

Position in Track

06:10-08:25

Album Title

The Heavyweight Champion - The Complete Atlantic Recordings CD 6

Label

Atlantic Records (8122-71984-2/6)

Recording Date

1961-05-25

Line Up

John Coltrane (ts); Eric Dolphy (as); Freddie Hubbard (tp); McCoy Tyner (p); Art Davis (b); Reggie Workman (b); Elvin Jones (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

e57c469d-a5ed-4645-bb7c-586e308303bd

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G7   |G7   |G7   |G7913   |F7   |F7   |G7   |G7913   |Dsus7   |D7   |G7   |G7913   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

552

Number of Bars

73 bars

Number of Choruses

6

Mean Tempo

128.9 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.08 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.61 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.63:1

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

38.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-87 (41)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.0 %

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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