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132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 145.1 BPM one beat lasts 413.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.4 ms and a dotted eighth 310.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 290.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.9 Hz, which is 3.5 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 6.38 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 0.902 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.