Björk · Vespertine
Pagan Poetry
Pagan Poetry is in C sharp minor at 131.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
132 BPM · Allegromedian of 228 analyses · 131.7–131.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 228people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 455.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.07dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.601Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.921Essentia'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
228 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 228 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 131.8 BPM one beat lasts 455.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.8 ms and a dotted eighth 341.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 263.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 4.07 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 0.601 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 C sharp minor; 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ minor 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 132 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1820.9 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 910.5 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 682.9 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 455.2 | 2.2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 303.5 | 3.3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 341.4 | 2.93 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 227.6 | 4.39 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 151.7 | 6.59 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 170.7 | 5.86 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 113.8 | 8.79 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.9 | 13.18 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.9 | 17.57 |
Half time 65.9 BPM · double time 263.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (455.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Boom Boom PowThe Black Eyed PeasC♯ minor130BPM
- The Ballad of Chasey LainBloodhound GangC♯ minor134BPM
- All Along the WatchtowerBob DylanC♯ minor129BPM
- Lord of This WorldBlack SabbathC♯ minor135BPM
- Face to Face (Cosmo Vitelli remix)Daft PunkC♯ minor135BPM
- FaintLinkin ParkC♯ minor135BPM
- Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to BeAC/DCC♯ minor128BPM
- Bigmouth Strikes AgainThe SmithsC♯ minor135BPM
- Addicted to YouAviciiC♯ minor128BPM
- If You LeaveDestiny’s Child featuring NextC♯ minor128BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 132 BPMC♯ minor at 130–139 BPMBjörk
MusicBrainz collapses 55 recording ids into this one. Recording id 66dd332c-d163-4dd6-8b3d-7f5900112e99.