Paul Desmond “Alone Together”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

160.3 s

Position in Track

00:57-03:38

Album Title

Take Ten

Label

Rca Victor (LC 00316)

Recording Date

1963-06-12

Line Up

Paul Desmond (as); Jim Hall (g); Eugen Wright (b); Connie Kay (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

9edfd703-8b16-4f8e-831a-846614e1727d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-6   |Dm7b5 G79b |C-6   |Dm7b5 G79b |C-6   |Gm7b5 C79b |F-7   |F-7   |A-7 D7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |Dm7b5 G7 |Cj7   |Dm7b5 G7 ||
A2: ||C-6   |Dm7b5 G79b |C-6   |Dm7b5 G79b |C-6   |Gm7b5 C79b |F-7   |F-7   |A-7 D7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |Dm7b5 G7 |Cj7   |Cj7   ||
B1: ||Gm7b5   |C79b   |F-6   |F-6   |Fm7b5   |Bb79b   |Ebj7   |Dm7b5 G79b ||
A3: ||C-6   |Dm7b5 G79b |C-6   |Dm7b5 G79b |C-6   |Ab7 G7 |C-6   |Dm7b5 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

577

Number of Bars

134 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

199.9 (UP)

Event Density

3.6 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.32 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.68:1

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

26.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-80 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.0 %

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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