"One" - Mary J. Blige and U2 - mean emotion according to the measpeed music conjecture=enthusiasm

The song "One" by Mary J. Blige and U2 is one of the best known songs in the world. An elementary Google search of the actual TEMPO of the song gives me nothing except, well, my own work. Thousands of Ph.D's doing absolutely nothing because, well, they are not in the right field. The academic language they use is intended to scare us all off. However, New York lawyers do not scare easily, and when I saw that the number of posts and sites devoted to "MUSIC COGNITION" that had no real application as real applications were, of course, something these overpaid Ivory people could only do themselves. As virtually every "study" or "research design" or "paradigm shift" (do any of you Ph.D's know what that even means?) ending a music cognition "analysis", translated from the academic jargon - Thank you Hamilton College for teaching me not to ever be intimidated by ANY assertion, no matter how cleverly worded - "[We spent a lot of money. Did a lot of testing. Found nothing. Give us more money. no one can do it like us.]" To those of you in the know musically and academically, I can hear your ears ringing - literally.





Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
The contiguous calibrations for One by Mary J. Blige and U2 are -
mean speed/objective tempo=93.0 beats per minute
mean emotion according the the meanspeed music conjecture=enthusiasm
mean beat=1.55 beats per second
mean space=645 milliseconds between beats
mean space=2581 milliseconds between measures
mean slow phase=1.55 cycles per second
mean pitch=396.80 Hertz, 21 cents above G4=391.995, 79 cents below G#4/Ab4=415.305 Hertz.


Ian Andrew Schneider
July 9, 2008