Black Celebration

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 153.6 BPM one beat lasts 390.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.7 ms and a dotted eighth 293 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.5 Hz, which is 14 cents below 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 6.93 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 0.581 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 minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.