B.B. King's iTunes Playlist: Louis Armstrong, "What A Wonderful World," meanemotion=grace, meanspeed=71.3

B.B. King is a blues guitarist and singer who has added a Celebrity Playlist to iTunes in album form, speeds of which are analyzed on this page. The next song chosen by B.B. is performed by the artist Louis Armstrong and a infamous standard version of the song "What A Wonderful World." The song has an iTunes listing of "jazz." The album from which it was downloaded is called Louis Armstrong All-Time Greatest Hits.

We measured the frequencies of this song as:
a) mean speed/average velocity=71.3 beats per minute
b) mean-emotion according to the meanspeed music conjecture=grace
c) meanspace=842 milliseconds per beat,
d) meanphase=1.19 beats per second,
e) meanpitch=303.74 hertz, 58 cents above D4=293.665 hertz, 42 cents below D#4/Eb4=311.127 hertz.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music Trust
NYC
December 13, 2006

Ownership of 140.0 beats per minute as pure speed: U2, "Vertigo," live in Milan, 2005

This month, the band from Ireland, U2, released a Deluxe version on iTunes of their new album U218 Singles.

In addition to the 18 singles plus the bonus 19th track, 9 tracks were released from a concert in Milan, Italy in 2005 in anticipation of a DVD which was recorded during a concert.

Track #1 of 9 in the live iTunes Deluxe version of U218 Singles is called "Vertigo," composed by Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen and The Edge under the genre of "Rock."

We measured the frequencies of this song as:
a) meanspeed=140.0 beats per minute,
b) meanemotion=mixed fast,
c) meanspace=429 milliseconds per beat,
d) meanphase=2.33 beats per second,
e) meanpitch=597.44 hertz, 29 cents above D5=587.330 hertz, 71 cents below D#5/Eb5=622.254 hertz.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music Trust
December 10, 2006
New Jersey, US