Music score data: by Marc R Plamondon

Beethoven String Quartet 7: second movement

Bb major

Distribution of all notes by degree

degree 1		degree 2		degree 3	degree 4		degree 5		degree 6		degree 7
Bb	B	C	Db	D	Eb	E	F	Gb	G	Ab	A
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
862	219	793	341	842	567	324	916	347	554	340	665
12.7 %	3.2 %	11.7 %	5.0 %	12.4 %	8.4 %	4.8 %	13.5 %	5.1 %	8.2 %	5.0 %	9.8 %
First notes of a measure only
201	54	174	83	183	125	59	211	70	119	99	129
13.3 %	3.6 %	11.5 %	5.5 %	12.1 %	8.3 %	3.9 %	14.0 %	4.6 %	7.9 %	6.6 %	8.6 %

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				27
Db				8
D				56
Eb				44
E				14
F				84
Gb				33
G				70
Ab				30
A				80
Bb				202
B				27
C			17	89
Db			12	28
D			46	97
Eb			38	75
E			17	17
F			136	78
Gb			55	27
G	7	19	91	50
Ab		4	79	32
A	29	5	87	32
Bb	11	46	132	69
B	1	9	37	44
C	17	42	136	50
Db	7	18	78	21
D	129	128	79	32
Eb	8	61	104	20
E	17	62	60	13
F	33	126	123	15
Gb	29	46	82
G	44	71	99	3
Ab	28	69	26
A	127	125	32	1
Bb	70	147	53	3
B	15	49	6	1
C	87	132	42	9
Db	33	66	6	5
D	87	114	15	6
Eb	65	72	8	9
E	38	56	8	1
F	102	107	5	9
Gb	33	28	1	1
G	59	19	1	8
Ab	42	14		7
A	86	45		15
Bb	106	16		3
B	28	2
C	125	17		2
Db	49	8		2
D	43	10
Eb	61	1		1
E	21
F	98
Gb	12
G	13
Ab	9
A	1
Bb	4
B
C	1
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
27
26
25
24				1
23
22
21
20
19		1		1
18
17
16	2			1
15	21
14	8
13			1
12	94	41	54	45
11	6			1
10	12	9	1	3
9	6	44	8	2
8	35	25	6	6
7	10	11	20	37
6	11	12	28	10
5	63	49	60	76
4	45	91	52	51
3	89	127	147	77
2	106	120	88	75
1	104	110	78	60
0	464	347	498	428
-1	138	127	119	126
-2	172	194	171	208
-3	74	86	107	58
-4	45	79	33	61
-5	19	21	31	42
-6	10	10	23	4
-7	6	29	21	47
-8	30	14	3	2
-9	12	35	3	2
-10	11	10		1
-11	8	2	4	1
-12	81	42	54	39
-13				3
-14	7	1		1
-15	19		4	1
-16	1	1	1
-17	3		1	1
-18	1
-19	1	1
-20	2		1
-21	1
-22
-23
-24	3	2
-25
-26
-27
-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	612 (35.6 %)	640 (39.0 %)	543 (33.6 %)	446 (30.3 %)
Steady	464 (27.0 %)	347 (21.1 %)	498 (30.8 %)	428 (29.1 %)
Down	644 (37.4 %)	654 (39.9 %)	576 (35.6 %)	597 (40.6 %)