Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People

161 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 161 readings; 77% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 95 to 125.5 BPM.

At 97.2 BPM one beat lasts 617.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.3 ms and a dotted eighth 463 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 194.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below 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 9.8 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 0.652 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 D major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.