Phil Woods “On a Slow Boat to China”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

129.1 s

Position in Track

00:33-02:43

Album Title

Battle of Saxes Volume 2, CD 3

Label

Membran Music Ltd. ()

Recording Date

1955-11-25

Line Up

Phil Woods (as); John Williams (p); Teddy Kotick (b); Nick Stabulas (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bbj7   |Bo7 G7 |C-7   |Dbo7   |Bbj7   |Am7b5 D79b |Ebj7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Em7b5 A79b |Bbj7 Ab7911 |G7   |C7   |C7   |C-7   |F79   ||
B1: ||Bbj7   |Bo7 G7 |C-7   |Dbo7   |Bbj7   |Am7b5 D79b |Ebj7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Ab7911#   |Bbj7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C7   |F7   |Bbj7   |C-7 F7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

847

Number of Bars

131 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

242.6 (UP)

Event Density

6.56 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.49 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.55:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

4+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

25.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

52-78 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

36.7 %

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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