Anberlin · Cities (special edition)
A Whisper & a Clamor
A Whisper & a Clamor is in E flat major at 84.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
85 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 84.8–84.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 707.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.48dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.96Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.085Essentia'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
128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 84.8 BPM one beat lasts 707.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 176.9 ms and a dotted eighth 530.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 169.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above 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 2.48 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 0.96 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 E flat 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 E♭ major
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 85 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2830.2 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1415.1 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1061.3 | 0.94 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 707.5 | 1.41 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 471.7 | 2.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 530.7 | 1.88 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 353.8 | 2.83 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 235.8 | 4.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 265.3 | 3.77 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 176.9 | 5.65 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 117.9 | 8.48 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 88.4 | 11.31 |
Half time 42.4 BPM · double time 169.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (707.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- De camino a la veredaBuena Vista Social ClubE♭ major85BPM
- ImpossibleJames ArthurE♭ major85BPM
- Intro50 CentE♭ major85BPM
- AngelAerosmithE♭ major86BPM
- With YouChris BrownE♭ major86BPM
- Hold on My HeartGenesisE♭ major86BPM
- FourMiles Davis QuartetE♭ major86BPM
- It’s a Hard LifeQueenE♭ major83BPM
- Only TimeEnyaE♭ major83BPM
- Basket CaseGreen DayE♭ major88BPM
Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 85 BPME♭ major at 80–89 BPMAnberlin
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id be4860bd-b624-4daf-b1a0-c6c3c92a906f.