Example 9. Beethoven, Piano Sonata Op. 7, movement iii, Trio

a) Sketch

Supplementary notes:

  • Measures 1–4: The first melodic motion is on one level a neighbor, but has the effect of an interrupted passing motion, one that is completed in the following measures.
  • Measures 1–16: The overall upper voice for these bars is a textbook example of boundary play, the boundary here being the stepwise connection of to .
  • Measures 17–28: The large scale sixth progression from D from B is echoed briefly by the more figural downward sixth in measures 27–8 (which also restores the major dominant).

Supplementary notes:

  • Measures 29–43: The retaking of the opening is actually an amalgam of the first phrase and the rhythmically compressed bars (measures 25–6; compare the sixteenth notes in the durational reduction) of the middle section; the displacement of these bars to the second beat plus the addition of the requisite final tonic fills out the expected hypermetric length.
b) Durational reduction