The first sixteen bars of this Sonate by Beethoven is written in the form of a compound period, which is similar to a hybrid in some ways. A compound period consists of the presence of both parallel period and sentence, and usually one is submerged in the idea of the other. The sixteen bars can be divided into two eight bar phrases due to the presence of a half cadence in bar 8, and the perfect authentic cadence in bar 16. The eight bar phrases are extremely similar to one another, except for the cadential at the end of both eight bar phrases, which is consistent with the idea of a parallel period. The first four bars appear to be a basic idea, while the second four bars is the contrasting idea, with the antecedent ending in a half cadence. In the consequent of the 16-bar phrase, there is the same basic idea, a different contrasting idea, and a closure by a perfect authentic cadence. The presence of both antecedent and consequence describes the parallel period perfectly.
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