Charlie Parker “Ornithology”¶
Discographic Information¶
Instrument |
as |
Total Duration |
35.1 s |
Position in Track |
00:37-01:12 |
Album Title |
Boss Bird Disc 1 |
Label |
Proper Records (P1281) |
Recording Date |
1946-07-29 |
Line Up |
Howard McGhee (tp); Charlie Parker (as); Jimmy Bunn (p); Bob Kesterton (b); Roy Porter (dr) |
Style |
BEBOP |
Key |
G-maj |
Signature |
4/4 |
Groove/Feel |
SWING |
Tonality Class |
FUNCTIONAL |
MusicBrainz ID |
– |
More Info |
Piano Roll¶
MIDI¶
Transcription¶
Chord changes of solo:
A1: ||Gj7 |Gj7 |G-7 C7 |G-7 C7 |Fj7 |Fj7 |F-7 |Bb7 ||
B1: ||Eb7 |D7 |G- |Cm7b5 D7 |B-7 |E7 |A-7 |D7 ||
A2: ||Gj7 |Gj7 |G-7 C7 |G-7 C7 |Fj7 |Fj7 |F-7 |Bb7 ||
B2: ||Eb7 |D7 |G |A-7 D7 |G/B Bb7 |A-7 Ab7 |Gj7 |A-7 D7 ||
I1:
Statistics¶
Features¶
Number of Notes |
194 |
|
Number of Bars |
32 bars |
|
Number of Choruses |
1 |
|
Mean Tempo |
221.0 (UP) |
|
Event Density |
5.53 Notes/s |
|
Metrical Event Density |
5.99 Notes/bar |
|
Median Swing Ratio |
1.78:1 |
Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision. |
Metrical Centroid |
2+ |
Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4. |
Syncopicity |
29.4 % |
Share of syncopated notes. |
Ambitus |
55-77 (22) |
Min/max and range of MIDI pitches. |
Extrema ratio |
38.1 % |
Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour). |
Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram¶
Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.
Pitch Class Histogram¶
MIDI Pitch Histogram¶
Semitone Interval Histogram¶
Refined Contour Histogram¶
Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes
Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram¶
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).
