Play this . This shows the score with a formal analysis. This represents a symmetrical balancing of the 2 parts. Binary one-bar units are also contained in the bass part, labeled n . In several places it is also interval-dilated.
Interval dilation is also common in the treble part.
Even the appearance of the hierarchical slurs in the above analysis mirrors the Cantor comb. Each successive subdivision of the 32 measures is a binary unit, and thus, each is a smaller replica of the larger unit containing it. The structure here is analogous to the Cantor fractal. The form of Beethoven's Eccosaisen is no exception among musical compositions. Their subdivisions form motives and other small units that echo self-similar binary structures.