Steve Coleman “The Oracle (2)”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

174.7 s

Position in Track

10:23-13:17

Album Title

Extensions

Label

ECM (ECM 1410)

Recording Date

1989-09-01

Line Up

Steve Coleman (as); Kevin Eubanks (g); Dave Holland (b); Marvin Smith (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Bb-min

Signature

3/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

FREE

MusicBrainz ID

e71aeb1c-ee18-466c-a417-947c078e2c21

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  |Bb-  ||
B1: ||Eb-  |C-  |Bj7911#  |Bb-  |Eb-  |Bj7911#  |Eb-  |Bj7911#  |G-7  |F#j7  |Bj7  |Bbj7911#  ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

764

Number of Bars

101 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

104.0 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

4.37 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.57 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.94:1

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

38.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-78 (29)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.8 %

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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