Music score data: by Marc R Plamondon

Beethoven String Quartet 7: fourth 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
858	67	927	156	729	536	159	1153	190	815	119	632
13.5 %	1.1 %	14.6 %	2.5 %	11.5 %	8.5 %	2.5 %	18.2 %	3.0 %	12.9 %	1.9 %	10.0 %
First notes of a measure only
223	10	141	46	147	86	8	219	27	115	31	74
19.8 %	0.9 %	12.5 %	4.1 %	13.0 %	7.6 %	0.7 %	19.4 %	2.4 %	10.2 %	2.8 %	6.6 %

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				44
Db				14
D				45
Eb				6
E				43
F				75
Gb				16
G				103
Ab				49
A				147
Bb				102
B				32
C			57	225
Db			7	29
D			56	168
Eb			15	17
E			88	52
F			103	74
Gb			11	1
G	1	9	177	73
Ab	1	1	18	5
A	3	10	116	54
Bb	5	16	152	17
B		5	23	8
C	8	32	173	69
Db	8	24	26	3
D	27	48	97	34
Eb	5	20	13
E	34	54	83	14
F	54	82	127	23
Gb	1	15	2
G	26	114	81	6
Ab	21	28	3
A	44	79	51
Bb	27	74	13
B	25	34	3
C	200	111	13	1
Db	19	28	1
D	151	81	4
Eb	5	13
E	73	108	1	3
F	92	101	7	2
Gb	12	4		1
G	165	60		4
Ab	28	1
A	90	61		3
Bb	66	46		3
B	22	5
C	169	30		1
Db	28	3
D	85	18		1
Eb	24	1
E	66	13
F	108	10
Gb	4
G	106	2
Ab	1
A	63	8
Bb	15
B	2
C	20
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
18
17		1		1
16
15
14
13			1
12	41	9	34	10
11			1	1
10	3	3	28	2
9	17	30	12	9
8	25	22	11	3
7	32	13	11	16
6	19	24	5	3
5	26	28	23	74
4	27	39	32	47
3	60	62	69	74
2	307	129	196	200
1	186	146	121	139
0	459	346	394	391
-1	128	108	115	123
-2	260	113	182	214
-3	105	54	35	45
-4	39	20	21	18
-5	30	26	20	38
-6	6	20	7	3
-7	17	23	9	34
-8	3	7	1	9
-9	11	26	6	7
-10	8	9	34	2
-11	1	2	1
-12	38	4	34	12
-13	1		1
-14	2		2	1
-15		1
-16
-17		1	3
-18
-19	2
-20
-21				1
-22			1
-23	2
-24	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	743 (40.0 %)	506 (40.0 %)	544 (38.6 %)	580 (39.2 %)
Steady	459 (24.7 %)	346 (27.3 %)	394 (27.9 %)	391 (26.5 %)
Down	655 (35.3 %)	414 (32.7 %)	472 (33.5 %)	507 (34.3 %)