It’s printed on a plastic bag that I’ve kept for decades. I’d love to know what it is!
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Could it be a second movement of a Haydn piano sonata - in a Henle edition?
Couldn’t be Haydn, unless early. The style seems late baroque, maybe even french(?)—the ornamentation feels it anyway—, and the writing isn’t florid enough for a Hardn sonata second movement and there isn’t a strongly stated theme to be a sonata first movement. Seems like a suite movement, maybe? Could be a Bach kid?
I just scanned through Haydn sonatas and could not find a match. Then went to C.P.E. Bach and gave up after a while, just the amount of pieces is overwhelming..
What triggered me was actually the style of the engraving, pointing direction Henle.
It could of course be a modernised edition writing out baroque ornaments into plain notation. At the same time, the little dynamic swells stylistically point into the direction of the generation after Bach.
We need a pianist / keyboard player here, who recognises the piece directly.. @srh ?
On a plastic bag?
My question too… The plastic bags I usually encounter are decidedly not that fancy… 
Big fan of CPE (I’m a keyboardist), I feel confident it isn’t him. It is a puzzle!
Yes it’s puzzling 
The fingerings in the above edition appear quite well-thought-out.
I find the term “Moderato” to be telling as well. Could be a publisher’s marking. If not, it is most likely classical. The bass line in measure 3 is also familiar. I thought it might be Handel, but most of his keyboard music is far showier.
I’m actually not a fan of those fingerings, as they use the thumb too much. I would prioritize the 2 and 3 fingers as much as possible for keyboard music like this based on my training, which might further indicate that this is not the most critical of editions. Two other things: 1) realizing ornaments is a very Schirmer thing to do; 2) printed on a plastic bag? Henle? Maybe without permission.
EDIT: In fact, now that I really look at the fingerings, that opening 2 1 2 12 23 is terrible. If this is Henle, I would be shocked.
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To add to the confusion, it might have looked like this (I am no expert on ornaments..)
Beautiful simple F-Major - peaceful beginning
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J. S. Bach - Polonaise in F Major, BWV Anh. 117a.
Courtesy from Shazam.
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Not me, just Shazam.
It is amazing that with just 3 bars of audio bounce from Dorico Shazam (browser version) identifies the piece in a few seconds.
Bingo!
Thank you all, and especially @Santiago_Galan
Yes, the entire first page was reproduced on a plastic carrier bag from a music shop in downtown Jerusalem, which I got hold of I think in the 80s.
Clearly they had printed on the bag a page from one of these old editions of baroque (or I thought perhaps rococo) keyboard music, where the ornaments are all “helpfully” written out and the editor has overloaded the music with dynamics and articulations which in any modern edition of baroque music would be frowned upon.
Nice to know finally what it is!
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I knew it was oddly familiar…
can anyone of you smart people tell me what this piece is.
Shazam and youtube think it is turtles elonore but that doesnt make sense.
It must be from some Sonatine Album.
Can you tell also the name of the album
Thanks.
unknown_long.dorico (1,3 MB)
Hi @fesle23. Welcome to the Dorico forum.
Even though it doesn’t take much time to download the Dorico project then open it to view the melody, readers on this forum will be more inclined to assist if they can actually see the music being referred to without having to do that. To that end, I have made a screenshot of the piece.
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Oh god of course it’s J.S. Bach. Real Occam’s Razor moment.
You know what, I even looked through the W.F. Bach notebook and didn’t find a match and didn’t think to look through this (the obvious) one, given there are many authorship issues in it. Great work using Shazam @Santiago_Galan
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