Neil Diamond · Serenade
Longfellow Serenade
Longfellow Serenade is in E major at 121.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
122 BPM · Allegromedian of 141 analyses · 120.8–121.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 141people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 493milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.81dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.899Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.08Essentia'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
141 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 141 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 121.7 BPM one beat lasts 493 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 123.3 ms and a dotted eighth 369.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 243.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 4.81 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 0.899 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 122 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1972.1 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 986 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 739.5 | 1.35 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 493 | 2.03 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 328.7 | 3.04 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 369.8 | 2.7 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 246.5 | 4.06 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 164.3 | 6.09 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 184.9 | 5.41 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 123.3 | 8.11 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.2 | 12.17 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 61.6 | 16.23 |
Half time 60.9 BPM · double time 243.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (493 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- StarlightMuseE major122BPM
- Kingdom ComeDavid BowieE major122BPM
- Rock’n MeSteve Miller BandE major122BPM
- Tears Dry on Their OwnAmy WinehouseE major121BPM
- Counting StarsOneRepublicE major122BPM
- Be With YouEnrique IglesiasE major122BPM
- Only Happy When It RainsGarbageE major121BPM
- Life in a Northern TownThe Dream AcademyE major121BPM
- Drive ByTrainE major122BPM
- Rather BeClean Bandit feat. Jess GlynneE major121BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 122 BPME major at 120–129 BPMNeil Diamond
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id f6ea0758-513d-464b-b2e5-e28d210a70b4.