Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra · Satchmo Serenades
La Vie en rose
La Vie en rose is in C major at 136 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 135 analyses · 132.5–139.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 135people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 441.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 435.7Hz · -17 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.02dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.278Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.05Essentia'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
135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 71% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 132.5 to 139.1 BPM.
At 136 BPM one beat lasts 441.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.3 ms and a dotted eighth 330.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68 BPM, counted twice as fast 272. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.7 Hz, which is 17 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 8.02 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 0.278 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 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1764.7 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 882.4 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 661.8 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 441.2 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 294.1 | 3.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.9 | 3.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.6 | 4.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.1 | 6.8 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.4 | 6.04 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.3 | 9.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.5 | 13.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.1 | 18.13 |
Half time 68 BPM · double time 272 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 136 BPMC major at 130–139 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id e373bc6a-7ec0-4d91-afdd-0c191679b7bf.