Essay For Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12
Samuel Barber, St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin
Adagio for Strings / 3 Essays for Orchestra
9:20 January 1, 1989
BPM
179
Key
E Major
Camelot
12B

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Essay For Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12 by Samuel Barber, St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin Song Details

"Essay For Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12" by Samuel Barber, St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin had its release date on January 1, 1989. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. The song is number 3 out of 6 in Adagio for Strings / 3 Essays for Orchestra by Samuel Barber, Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. The popularity of Essay For Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12 is currently not that popular 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 Essay For Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12 by Samuel Barber, St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin is Presto (very, very fast), since this song has a tempo of 179 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of E Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-21.081 dB
Acousticness
94%
Danceability
20%
Energy
18%
Instrumentalness
3%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
65%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
19%

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Label
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