What Some Dead White Guy Did: A Statistical Topology
Of Keyboard Usage In Beethoven's Sonatas For Pianoforte

Appendix I - Corrections Made To The MIDI Files

All bar numbers refer to those found in the Craxton edition (Beethoven, Craxton, Tovey, 1931)

Sonata 1:

no changes

Sonata 2:

bar 304-305 arpeggiation on A and E down an octave [mistake?]

Sonata 3:

bar 35 allegro con brio - bar changed to phrase in Craxton edition - high G removed

bar 26 adagio - E in octaves up an octave

Sonata 4:

bar 281 allegro molto e con brio - Eb up an octave

bar 44 largo, con gran esprressione - right hand transposed down an octave

bar 45 largo, con gran esprressione - doubled high G removed

bar 78 rondo - high G changed to an E

Sonata 5:

bar 107 Adagio Molto - low Eb removed

Sonata 6:

no changes

Sonata 7:

bar 15 presto - low E removed

bar 22 presto - High F# removed from doubled octave

bar 104 presto - High F, F#, G,G# and A changed to original E and D#

bar 105 presto - Highest A in doubled octave removed.

bar 271-272, low E, D and F removed

Sonata 8:

bar 265 Allegro molto e con brio - Low E changed to G.

Sonata 9:

bar 152-154 Allegro - Low E removed

Sonata 10:

no changes

Sonata 11:

bar 152 Rondo - Removed low D.

Sonata 12:

bar 37 Marcia Funébre - Removed Low Eb

Sonata 13:

no changes

Sonata 14:

no changes

Sonata 15:

no changes

Sonata 16:

bar 185-187 Rondo - Low Ds moved up to Cs

Sonata 17:

bar 43 Allegretto - Low E removed.

Bar 246 Allegretto - Low doubled C removed

bar 262 Allegretto - doubled low D removed.

Sonata 18:

bar 56 Scherzo - last two notes transposed up an octave.

Sonata 19:

no changes

Sonata 20:

no changes

Sonata 21:

bar 285 Allegro con brio - removed low E and F

bar 2 - Introduzione - bass transposed up an octave

bar 18 - Introduzione - bass transposed up an octave

bar 70 - Rondo - low Es removed

bar 74 Rondo - low E transposed up

bar 181-182 Rondo - removal of Db to Eb doubled in octaves

Sonata 22:

bar 41-43 Allegretto - removal of doubled E, Db and D

Sonata 23:

bar 231 Allegro Assai - removal of low doubled C.

Sonata 24:

no changes

Sonata 25:

no changes

Sonata 26:

bar 28Abwesenheit - low E removed

bar 76 Das Weidersehn - first bar of left hand re-written and transposed up an octave.

Sonata 27:

bar 209 Met Leibhaftigkeit - 3rd beat, low B in the left hand removed

bar 210 Met Leibhaftigkeit - first low E removed

bar 214 - low E removed

Sonata 28:

bar 43-44 Allegra ma non troppo - Doubled low E removed.

bar 4 Adagio - low doubled E removed

NOTE: In this sonata the first two movements were written for a different keyboard that stretched from low E up to high E, (Tovey, 1931)

Sonata 29:

bar 104 allegro risoluto - Low B and Bb removed

Sonata 30:

bar 98 Adagio Espressivo - mistake - top D# and E instead of G# and B.

bar 126-127 Var V - Phrase from E to B at end of bar 127 moved down an octave.

Sonata 31:

bar 71 and 72 Allegro Molto - D and Eb moved down an octave

Sonata 32:

No changes