Sonata in G – Third Movement

Skipping ahead to the third movement, I took the skeleton of the opening movement’s first subject, G-A-B-D, compressed it, then off to the dances. The tempo started out rather slow. Combined with the slant towards minor chords, this was for a while a Minuet Triste. But the second section on the dominant wanted to go faster and pulled the whole to a typical tempo for a minuet.



The second section started out as a normal 8-bar phrase. As I played it over and over on the keyboard, the transition from the eight-note quarter note rhythm to flowing eighth notes get on hitting a bump. The flowing eighth notes initially started on the second beat of the measure as in measure 11, but after a bar wanted to start on the first beat. So measure 12 switched to common time.