Gerry Mulligan “This Can’t Be Love”

Discographic Information

Instrument

bs

Total Duration

167.8 s

Position in Track

03:24-06:12

Album Title

Gerry Mulligan meets the Saxophonists

Label

Verve Records (LC0383 AAD)

Recording Date

1957-10-12

Line Up

Gerry Mulligan (bs); Stan Getz (ts); Lou Levy (p); Ray Brown (b); Stan Levey (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

04b132d7-2352-4312-b134-b68c2580106c

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab6   |Ab6   |Db7   |Db7   |Abj7   |F-7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   ||
A2: ||Ab6   |Ab6   |Db7   |Db7   |C-7 F-7 |Bb-7 Eb7 |Abj7   |Abj7   ||
B1: ||G-7   |C7   |F-7   |F-7   |Cm7b5   |F7alt   |Bb7   |Eb7   ||
A3: ||Abj7   |Abj7   |Db7   |Db7   |C-7 F-7 |Bb-7 Eb7 |Ab6   |Bb-7 Eb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

960

Number of Bars

188 bars

Number of Choruses

6

Mean Tempo

269.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.72 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.1 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.3:1

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

17.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

41-68 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.1 %

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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