Woody Shaw “In a Capricornian Way”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cor

Total Duration

178.1 s

Position in Track

00:58-03:56

Album Title

Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard

Label

Columbia (JC 35560)

Recording Date

05.&06.08.1978

Line Up

Woody Shaw (cor, flgn); Carter Jefferson (ts, ss); Onaje Allan Gumbs (p); Clint Houston (b); Victor Lewis (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Signature

3/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

COLOR

MusicBrainz ID

afd93afb-96b5-4efa-957c-d17d2110e49d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||D-7  |G-69  |D-7  |E-7  |D-7  |Eb7911#  |D-7  |A7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Gb-7  |B7  ||
A2: ||D-7  |G-69  |D-7  |E-7  |D-7  |Eb7911#  |D-7  |A7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Gb-7  |B7  ||
B1: ||G-7  |Ab-7  |G-7  |Ebsus7  |Bsus7  |Ebsus7  |Esus7/A  |Db+79# C+79#||
A3: ||D-7  |G-69  |D-7  |E-7  |D-7  |Eb7911#  |D-7  |A7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Fsus7  |Ebsus7  |Gb-7  |B7  ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

864

Number of Bars

170 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

171.8 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.85 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.08 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.37:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1+

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

Syncopicity

32.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-87 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.1 %

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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