Ornette Coleman “Congeniality”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

167.2 s

Position in Track

00:52-03:39

Album Title

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Label

Atlantic Records (7567-81339-2)

Recording Date

1959-05-22

Line Up

Ornette Coleman (as); Donald Cherry (p-tp); Charlie Haden (b); Billy Higgins (dr)

Style

FREE

Key

Signature

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FREE

MusicBrainz ID

4a9619ee-43c7-4708-a173-6253550518ab

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

677

Number of Bars

648 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

232.6 (UP)

Event Density

4.05 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

1.04 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.36:1

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

35.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

52-79 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

44.6 %

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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