Charlie Parker “Segment”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

61.9 s

Position in Track

00:45-01:47

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 3

Label

Proper Records (P1283)

Recording Date

1949-05-05

Line Up

Kenny Dorham (tp); Charlie Parker (as); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Bb-min

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: ||Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |Cm7b5 F79b |Bb-6   |F+7   ||
A2: ||Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |Bb-6   ||
B1: ||F-7   |Bb7   |Eb-   |Eb-   |Eb-   |Ab7   |Db   |F79b   ||
A3: ||Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |C-7 F79b |Bb-6   |Cm7b5 F79b |Bb-6   |F+7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

351

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

246.9 (UP)

Event Density

5.67 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.51 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.31:1

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

24.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-79 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.0 %

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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