Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What Sweeter Music
John Rutter, Daniel Hyde, Britten Sinfonia
John Rutter: Five Meditations for Orchestra, I. What Sweeter Music
4:23 November 7, 2025
BPM
69
Key
B♭ Major
Camelot
6B

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Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What Sweeter Music by John Rutter, Daniel Hyde, Britten Sinfonia Song Details

"Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What Sweeter Music" by John Rutter, Daniel Hyde, Britten Sinfonia had its release date on November 7, 2025. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:23, 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. Because this song is the only song in John Rutter: Five Meditations for Orchestra, I. What Sweeter Music and no other songs are present in the album, we classify this track as a single. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What Sweeter Music is unknown 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

We consider the tempo marking of Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What Sweeter Music by John Rutter, Daniel Hyde, Britten Sinfonia to be Adagio (slowly with great expression) because the track has a tempo of 69 BPM, a half-time of 34BPM, and a double-time of 138 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of B♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-29.824 dB
Acousticness
98%
Danceability
12%
Energy
4%
Instrumentalness
87%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
50%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
4%

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ISRC
GBMY52507510
Label
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