Bee Gees · Spirits Having Flown
Tragedy
Tragedy is in D major at 118.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 499 analyses · 118–118.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 499people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 507.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.38dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.924Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.308Essentia'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
499 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 499 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 118.3 BPM one beat lasts 507.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.8 ms and a dotted eighth 380.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 236.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.38 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 0.924 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 118 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2028.7 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1014.4 | 0.99 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 760.8 | 1.31 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 507.2 | 1.97 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 338.1 | 2.96 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 380.4 | 2.63 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 253.6 | 3.94 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 169.1 | 5.92 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 190.2 | 5.26 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 126.8 | 7.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 84.5 | 11.83 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 63.4 | 15.77 |
Half time 59.2 BPM · double time 236.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (507.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Nobody Told MeJohn Lennon & Yoko OnoD major118BPM
- I Heard It Through the GrapevineCreedence Clearwater RevivalD major119BPM
- Rock ’n’ Roll TrainAC/DCD major119BPM
- SpiderheadCage the ElephantD major118BPM
- We Are FamilySister SledgeD major119BPM
- Love StoryTaylor SwiftD major119BPM
- QuicksandDavid BowieD major118BPM
- A Sort of HomecomingU2D major118BPM
- Once in a LifetimeTalking HeadsD major117BPM
- Strobe LightThe B‐52sD major117BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 118 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMBee Gees
MusicBrainz collapses 23 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8434805e-4982-4e10-941f-ae27d3730c09.