The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party, Part 2: Entertainment

168 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 86% — put it in F sharp minor, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 168 readings; 69% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 126.3 to 139.3 BPM.

At 135.9 BPM one beat lasts 441.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.4 ms and a dotted eighth 331.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 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 7.65 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 0.172 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 F sharp minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.