Oedipus Rex by Tom Lehrer Song Details

Tom Lehrer's ' "Oedipus Rex" was released on its scheduled release date, February 1, 1959. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:43, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The song is number 5 out of 11 in An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer by Tom Lehrer. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, Oedipus Rex's popularity is not that popular right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Oedipus Rex by Tom Lehrer is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 127 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of F Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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