Music score data: by Marc R Plamondon

Beethoven String Quartet 7: first movement

F major

Distribution of all notes by degree

degree 1		degree 2		degree 3	degree 4		degree 5		degree 6		degree 7
F	Gb	G	Ab	A	Bb	B	C	Db	D	Eb	E
tonic	minor second	second	minor third	major third	fourth	augmented fourth	fifth	minor sixth	sixth	minor seventh	leading tone
primary	dissonant	secondary	minor	consonant	consonant	dissonant	consonant	minor	secondary	secondary	dissonant
Counts of all notes
719	230	789	203	655	671	186	1126	175	526	245	540
11.9 %	3.8 %	13.0 %	3.3 %	10.8 %	11.1 %	3.1 %	18.6 %	2.9 %	8.7 %	4.0 %	8.9 %
First notes of a measure only
185	42	162	50	128	126	41	327	58	92	52	94
13.6 %	3.1 %	11.9 %	3.7 %	9.4 %	9.3 %	3.0 %	24.1 %	4.3 %	6.8 %	3.8 %	6.9 %

Distribution of all notes by part

	1st Violin	2nd Violin	Viola	Cello
C
Db
D
Eb
E
F
Gb
G
Ab
A
Bb
B
C				33
Db				1
D				22
Eb				4
E				30
F				70
Gb				8
G				99
Ab				26
A				56
Bb				74
B				22
C			84	152
Db			24	25
D			20	52
Eb			14	26
E			32	44
F			51	79
Gb			16	43
G	27	17	69	144
Ab	8	10	31	15
A	42	30	160	49
Bb	15	51	176	33
B	5	15	35	8
C	54	290	116	35
Db	8	21	23	5
D	19	91	70	29
Eb	13	66	24	6
E	29	129	57	18
F	62	121	80	17
Gb	47	28	25	3
G	65	93	61	6
Ab	26	24	19
A	44	60	66	1
Bb	83	75	45
B	23	20	15
C	98	84	50	2
Db	32	12	3
D	74	57	21	1
Eb	34	25	6
E	88	44	9	2
F	122	62	2	5
Gb	40	13
G	108	52	1	8
Ab	31	3		3
A	89	35		9
Bb	78	17		10
B	33	8
C	89	18		6
Db	20	1
D	63	6		1
Eb	27
E	51	7
F	48
Gb	7
G	39
Ab	7
A	14
Bb	14
B	2
C	15
Db
D
Eb
E
F
Gb
G
Ab
A
Bb
B
C
Db
D
Eb
E
F
Gb
G
Ab
A
Bb
B

Distribution of adjacent note differences

	1st Violin	2nd Violin	Viola	Cello
30
29
28				1
27
26
25
24
23
22
21				2
20
19	1		1	1
18
17				2
16				1
15			3	2
14	1		1
13	3			1
12	32	16	32	19
11
10	5	2	9	4
9	45	19	26	13
8	8	13	4	2
7	11	10	13	38
6	15	11	4	6
5	58	31	23	35
4	40	101	46	21
3	81	84	49	44
2	283	185	185	168
1	149	137	104	98
0	148	289	326	235
-1	177	115	97	103
-2	343	147	147	160
-3	79	113	79	77
-4	53	111	60	32
-5	31	19	26	32
-6	13	17	6	18
-7	15	12	21	50
-8	8	5	2	1
-9	41	18	19	9
-10	3	5	6	3
-11	1	2	2	2
-12	17	8	23	13
-13				1
-14		1	2	1
-15	1	2	3	1
-16		1
-17	1	1	1
-18	1
-19		1		1
-20
-21
-22	1
-23
-24	2	2
-25
-26
-27	1
-28
-29
-30

Summary of distribution of adjacent note differences
(Number of times the part goes up, stays steady, or goes down)

	1st Violin	2nd Violin	Viola	Cello
Up	732 (43.9 %)	609 (41.2 %)	500 (37.9 %)	458 (38.3 %)
Steady	148 (8.9 %)	289 (19.6 %)	326 (24.7 %)	235 (19.6 %)
Down	788 (47.2 %)	580 (39.2 %)	494 (37.4 %)	504 (42.1 %)