What Is and What Should Never Be

323 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 323 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 164.4 to 172.3 BPM.

At 164.6 BPM one beat lasts 364.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.1 ms and a dotted eighth 273.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 329.2. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 7.75 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 0.531 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 A major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.