The third movement, titled "Marche funèbre", is a "stark juxtaposition of funeral march and pastoral trio". The movement is in B minor and time with the trio in the relative major of D. The tempo designation, "Lento", was not added until after the sonata's publication in 1840. The movement opens with a melody consisting of just a repeated B for almost three measures accompanied by alternating B (without the third) and G major chords that ring like a funereal bell. This melodic device was also used as the backbone for the main theme of the preceding Scherzo movement and part of the coda of the opening movement. The melody following the repeated B, is, as Alan Walker notes, "a strict retrogade" of the first movement's main theme. The trio of the movement, which is in the tonic's relative major, consists of a serene melody accompanied by quavers in the left hand.