The speed graphs above, measured 10 times in contiguous 3 beat groups are a visual reprenstation of the speed of the live performance of “Happy Birthday To You” by Marilyn Monroe to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York on the President’s 45th birthday, May 28, 1962.

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary

song title=”Happy Birthday To You”

performer=Marilyn Monroe are:
mean speed/objective speed=60.3 beats per minute.
mean emotion accordig to meanspeed music theory=sincerity.
average beat=1.005 beat per second.
mean space=9950 milliseseconds per beat.
mean space=3980 milliseconds per measure.
mean slow phase=1.005 cycles per second.
corresponding =257.280 Hertz, 70.5 cents above B3=246.942 Hertz, 29.5 cents below C4=261.626 Hertz.

Ian Schneider
June 13, 2008
Kendall Park

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