Example 11. Excerpts from the sonata exposition of Schoenberg’s op. 7 Quartet

(a) the Pa theme, mm. 1–10




(b) the Pb theme, mm. 14–19




(c) the Pc theme, mm. 24–29




(d) the transition theme, mm. 97–103




(e) the secondary-theme complex, mm. 152–61, 167–70, 178–81