Van Morrison · Moondance
Moondance
Moondance is in A minor at 135.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 152 analyses · 132.9–135.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 152people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 444.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.92dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.794Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.203Essentia'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
152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 132.9 to 135.4 BPM.
At 135.1 BPM one beat lasts 444.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111 ms and a dotted eighth 333.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 3.92 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 0.794 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 A minor; 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A minor 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1776.5 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 888.2 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 666.2 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 444.1 | 2.25 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 296.1 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 333.1 | 3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 222.1 | 4.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148 | 6.76 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.5 | 6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111 | 9.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74 | 13.51 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.5 | 18.01 |
Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (444.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Am I Going Insane (Radio)Black SabbathA minor135BPM
- Old Yellow BricksArctic MonkeysA minor135BPM
- These DaysFoo FightersA minor135BPM
- Jump (For My Love)The Pointer SistersA minor135BPM
- PorchPearl JamA minor136BPM
- Babe I’m Gonna Leave YouLed ZeppelinA minor136BPM
- 7/11BeyoncéA minor136BPM
- The One That Got AwayKaty PerryA minor134BPM
- It’s Just ForeverCage the Elephant feat. Alison MosshartA minor136BPM
- Cover MeBjörkA minor136BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 135 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMVan Morrison
MusicBrainz collapses 50 recording ids into this one. Recording id 183eed94-ddd8-4f41-b748-273b16bbe024.