Andrea Bocelli · Il mare calmo della sera

Caruso

Caruso is in G major at 117.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 205 analyses · 117.9–120.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
205people who ran the extractor
One beat
508.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
9.09dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.119Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.869Essentia'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

205 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 205 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 117.9 to 120.2 BPM.

At 117.9 BPM one beat lasts 508.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.2 ms and a dotted eighth 381.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59 BPM, counted twice as fast 235.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above 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 9.09 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 0.119 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 118 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42035.60.49
Half note21017.80.98
Dotted quarter1.5763.41.31
Quarter note (one beat)1508.91.97
Quarter triplet0.667339.32.95
Dotted eighth0.75381.72.62
Eighth note0.5254.53.93
Eighth triplet0.333169.65.9
Dotted sixteenth0.375190.85.24
Sixteenth note0.25127.27.86
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.811.79
Thirty-second note0.12563.615.72

Half time 59 BPM · double time 235.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (508.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. A WhisperColdplayG major118BPM
  2. Year of the CatAl StewartG major118BPM
  3. Call MeAretha FranklinG major118BPM
  4. RespectOtis ReddingG major118BPM
  5. Prière païenneCéline DionG major118BPM
  6. If I Ain’t Got YouAlicia KeysG major118BPM
  7. Sweet Painted LadyElton JohnG major118BPM
  8. ShelaAerosmithG major118BPM
  9. The RiverBruce SpringsteenG major117BPM
  10. Hunting BearsRadioheadG major117BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 118 BPMG major at 110–119 BPMAndrea Bocelli

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 75c22746-1ad7-4ef4-bca9-0466dc763f11.