Recording
Barco Negro
Amália Rodrigues
- Released
- 1955
- On one list
- Fado
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Analysis
7 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to, 12% of it spent climbing.
- Tempo
- 58.8 BPM
- the pulse reads at half this too — counted the way the genre counts it
- Key
- A minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 19.4 dB
- wide open — the quiet parts are genuinely quiet
- Length
- 4:11
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:34Bpeakbar 16
- 1:04Cbuildbar 31
- 1:33Dliftbar 45
- 1:43Cbreakdownbar 50
- 2:51Cliftbar 83
- 3:10Coutrobar 93
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:34
- Energy
- 15
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 14
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung
- Lasts
- 0:30
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 98
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:29
- Energy
- 66
- Brightness
- 84
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · sung
- Lasts
- 0:10
- Energy
- 77
- Brightness
- 70
- Density
- 51
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 1:07
- Energy
- 24
- Brightness
- 52
- Density
- 57
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:20
- Energy
- 38
- Brightness
- 43
- Density
- 33
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 1:01
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 40
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- lift
- a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Fado
A woman on a beach insisting to herself that the drowned man will return. Amália is fado, and this is the performance that carried it out of Portugal without softening a syllable.