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Sharon Case
Born	Sharon Case February 9, 1971 (1971-02-09) (age 37) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Sharon Case (born February 9, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress.

Peter Bergman (born June 11, 1953) is a three time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actor. The son of an American United States Navy officer, he was born in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless fifteen times (1990-2002, 2007, 200 and once for his portrayal of Cliff Warner on “All My Children

1. On Friday, July 25, 2008, The Young and the Restless featured Bryton as Devon Hamilton and the young female singer who is called Anastasia on the program sang at the annual Genoa City Gala to raise money for the arts for public schools.

BRYTON, singing MOTHERLESS CHILD

Devon Hamilton is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, played by actor/musician Bryton since 2004. In 2007, Bryton won an Emmy for the role.

MOTHERLESS CHILDAll tempo graphics © 2008. Meanspeed Music Company. Use By Permission.

Jamia Simone Nash

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Jamia Simone Nash (born August 21, 1996) is an American child singer and actress. She has sometimes been billed as just Jamia.

During the gala, a song that could be sang in different manners at different speeds was striking. In my house, my mom is fond of saying , “we were dysfunctional before it was fashionable to be that way.” While my mom did introduce me to the amazingly fantastic CBS drama that is all about family, what we have all come top realize in the United States at least is that even the functional families have their dysfunctions.

This song about keeping your chin up in the face of literally feeling like a motherless child is sung at the slow end of grace, where songs between 70-76 beats per minute generally emote poised grace, where the similar 63-69 bpm range tends to reflect a musician emoting ritual, ceremony and romance. The two featured young actors singing the song have overcome very hard times, and they are indeed happy, poised and graceful at this ceremony.

Meanspeed Music Summary

song=MOTHERLESS CHILD (classic Negro Spiritual)
performers=Bryton, Anastasia with choir
special event=The Young and the Restless, Friday, July 25 “The Gala”
number of measurements=10
total beats calibrated=2,100
time passed, total=1,885.53 seconds
meanspeed=70 beats per minute
average beat=850 milliseconds
mean-emotion=grace

Ian Andrew Schneider

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A. Full Result Listing

The table below contains 150 songs, all which have been measured a) manually using beat-graphs, b) autmatically using our rayshooting technique, c) automatically using autocorrelation and d) automatically using a fourier analysis of the audio enveloppe.  For every song we have compared the measured tempo against the actual tempo. In a number of cases this tempo is a multiple of the actual tempo beacuse the algorithm measures a period which contains a wrong number of actual beats. E.g, 5 beats, 7 beats, 3 beats and so on. Based on these harmonics we have rescaled the measurement and compared the reported tempo with the measured tempo. This denotes the measurement error. Only for the fourier analysis of the enveloppe we have avoided in doing so (this is reported in the colum: 'Before'). We did this because the fourier analysis measure the most prominent frequency, not the best matchin period. As such are the harmonics of this technique often much more wrong than the harmonics of the two other techniques. As such, fixing the measurement of the fourier technique might give a wrong impression. Therefore the before colum only takes into account the ones that were acutally measured correctly.