The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell): March 27 and 28, 1974
Benjamin Britten, Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra
David Bowie narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf & The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
0:58 May 2, 1978
BPM
174
Key
F♯ Major
Camelot
2B

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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell): March 27 and 28, 1974 by Benjamin Britten, Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra Song Details

"The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell): March 27 and 28, 1974" by Benjamin Britten, Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra had its release date on May 2, 1978. With This song being less than a minute long, we are pretty confident that this song does not contain any foul language. That being said, this song is pretty short compared to other songs. The song is number 21 out of 41 in David Bowie narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf & The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by David Bowie, Eugene Ormandy. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. The popularity of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell): March 27 and 28, 1974 is currently below average in popularity right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell): March 27 and 28, 1974 by Benjamin Britten, Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra is Vivace (lively and fast), since this song has a tempo of 174 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 5/4.

Music Key

F♯ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 2B. So, the perfect camelot match for 2B would be either 2B or 3A. While, 3B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 11B and a high energy boost can either be 4B or 9B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 2A or 1B will give you a low energy drop, 5B would be a moderate one, and 12B or 7B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 11A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-27.287 dB
Acousticness
54%
Danceability
9%
Energy
6%
Instrumentalness
90%
Liveness
68%
Loudness
55%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
4%

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Label
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