The Slow Introduction Alternating Between Long And Short Notes Followed By A Fast Section. But it was published as Opus 132 and numbered as Beethovens 15th Quartet making it a confusing numerical anomaly in an otherwise chronological sequence. The music of the slow introduction is based on a short six note motif first heard at the beginning.
And d being the descending four note fall following thatThe rise of a fifth between b and c gives link back to the slow intro where it does the same in the first two bars the appoggiatura in c also links back to the many seen in the. The movement opens solemnly in the manner of a hymn with overlapping entries in strict imitation. Fragment of the opening of the 1st subject rising sequentially in 3 rds.
The slow movement is in binary form.
Followed by a fast section employing imitation Ground bass. The music of the slow introduction is based on a short six note motif first heard at the beginning. The Complete Beethoven. Its artless four-bar theme using only the notes B flat F and C is based on a Korean folksong.