Coleman Hawkins “It’s Only a Papermoon”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

57.7 s

Position in Track

00:55-01:53

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Coleman Hawkins, Dear Old Southland, CD 3

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (22243944)

Recording Date

1949-12-21

Line Up

Coleman Hawkins (ts); Nat Peck (tb); Hubert Fol (as); Jean Paul Mengon (p); Peirre Michelat (b); Kenny Clarke (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

F-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: ||F6 D7 |G-7 C7NC|G-7 C7NC|F6   |F7  NC|Bb6 Gm7b5 |C7   |F6 C7 ||
A2: ||F6 D7 |G-7 C7 |G-7 C7 |F6   |F7   |Bb6 Gm7b5 |C7   |F6   ||
B1: ||Bb Bo |F/C D7 |G-7 C7 |F6 F7 |Bb Bo |F/C D7 |Am7b5 D7 |G-7 C7 ||
A3: ||F6 D7 |G-7 C7 |G-7 C7 |F6   |F7   |Bb6 Gm7b5 |C7   |F6   ||
I1: ||F6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

257

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

133.7 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.45 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.0 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.57:1

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

33.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

47-72 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.7 %

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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