TempoPeek

Adiemus · Songs of Sanctuary

Adiemus

Adiemus is in G major at 100.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

100 BPM · Andantemedian of 163 analyses · 100.2–100.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
163people who ran the extractor
One beat
597.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.61dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.708Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.984Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

163 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 163 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 100.4 BPM one beat lasts 597.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149.4 ms and a dotted eighth 448.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 200.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.61 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.708 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in G major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with G major

Each of these differs from G major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 100 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42390.40.42
Half note21195.20.84
Dotted quarter1.5896.41.12
Quarter note (one beat)1597.61.67
Quarter triplet0.667398.42.51
Dotted eighth0.75448.22.23
Eighth note0.5298.83.35
Eighth triplet0.333199.25.02
Dotted sixteenth0.375224.14.46
Sixteenth note0.25149.46.69
Sixteenth triplet0.16799.610.04
Thirty-second note0.12574.713.39

Half time 50.2 BPM · double time 200.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (597.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Do You Really Want to Hurt MeCulture ClubG major100BPM
  2. Just Like Tom Thumb’s BluesBob DylanG major100BPM
  3. Hands CleanAlanis MorissetteG major100BPM
  4. JungleDrakeG major100BPM
  5. Saturday NightEaglesG major101BPM
  6. On the Turning AwayPink FloydG major100BPM
  7. There Are Worse Things I Could DoStockard ChanningG major101BPM
  8. Best for LastAdeleG major100BPM
  9. HaïtiArcade FireG major100BPM
  10. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?The Rolling StonesG major101BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 100 BPMG major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id f3793417-2571-4498-9e9d-5234822e3529.