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The American Auld Lang Syne? "What A Wonderful World" – Louis Armstrong – Full-Cheney Speed Report – average bpm=71.6 – mean emotion=Grace

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG- "What A Wonderful World" - Modern Tempo Map

LOUIS ARMSTRONG- "What A Wonderful World" - Modern Tempo Map

Our contributing editor, Mrs. [x], used to DJ, if you can call spinning Beatles records being a DJ!  One year, playing a New year’s Eve gig, instead of playing the classic English Auld Lang Syne, she played Satchmo’s “What A Wonderful World.” Need we say the response was electric. based thereon, we decided to figure out what the speed of this great song was. If you follow the dropdown menu to “graphs,” you will find a category called Grace. When you look at the songs around Louis Armstrong’s American original, the pattern of grace emoted speaks for itself. Res ipsa loquitor! Latin=The thing speaks for itself. Thanks for checking us out since 2004!  We appreciate your time and open-mindedness very much. There are many crackpot lunatic theories on the web – so for you to have found us – our findings are counterintuitive, powerful, called “crazy”- but REAL, TRUE & FREE. We love ya!
Meanspeed-Spencer Summary

song=”What A Wonderful World”
performer=Louis Armstrong
beats calibrated=1,188
total time elapsed=995.14 seconds
average, beats per trial=132
average time per trial=110.57 seconds
average beat length=838 milliseonds
average tempo (meanspeed)=71.6 beats per minute
mean emotion according to mean speed music theory=grace
recording source=iTunes
file type=m4p
Size=2.3 MB
Kind=Protected AAC audio file
Bit Rate=128 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Volume=(-8.8) dB

album=Priceless Jazz Collection: Louis Armstrong

Profile=Low Complexity
FairPlay Version=2
Channels=Stereo

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Auld Lang Syne

 

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“Auld Lang Syne” is a song by Robert Burns (1759–1796), although similar poems by Robert Ayton (1570–1638), Allan Ramsay (1686-1757) and James Watson (1711) as well as older folk songs, use the same phrase, and predated Burns. 

In any case, it is one of the better-known songs in English-speaking countries, and it is often sung at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day. Like many other frequently sung songs, the melody is better remembered than the words, which are often sung incorrectly, and seldom in full.

The song’s (Scots) title may be translated into English literally as ‘old long since’, or more idiomatically ‘long long ago’, or ‘days gone by’. In his retelling of fairy tales in the Scots language, Matthew Fitt uses the phrase “In the days of auld lang syne” as the equivalent of “Once upon a time”. In Scots Syne is pronounced like the English word sign — IPA: [sain] — not [zain]

Louis Armstrong - "WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD" - scatter graph by Ian Andrew Schneider for the meanspeed music school

Louis Armstrong - "WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD" - scatter graph by Ian Andrew Schneider for the meanspeed music school