# Identification probe result

I examined the dossier's four windows in detail before deciding. The evidence shows a two-voice keyboard texture in D major, 3/4 meter, with a melody that enters after a beat of rest, a descending stepwise eighth-note line (G5–F#5–E5–D5–C#5), frequent inverted mordents and a trill, echo-like forte/piano markings, and a binary design in which the opening material returns 24 measures into a 47-measure second part over a dominant-of-B-minor sonority. The chromatic inflections (A#, D#, G#) trace a conventional tonicization path through B minor and A major. All of this is idiomatic for a Baroque or early galant minuet-type harpsichord movement, but none of it forms a melodic fingerprint I can tie to one specific composition with honest confidence. Several composers (J.S. Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, and galant contemporaries) wrote D major 3/4 keyboard movements matching this profile, and I could not verify a note-for-note match against any one of them from the dossier alone.

## Run metadata

- Case: CASE-8JQJ
- Condition: symbolic dossier only; no external lookup performed or available
- Analyst model: claude-fable-5
- Date: 2026-07-19
- Windows reviewed: W1 (opening, E001–E008), W2 (pre-candidate, E009–E014), W3 (candidate return, E015–E020), W4 (continuation, E021–E026)

## Machine-readable result

```json
{
  "schema_version": "2.1.0",
  "analyst_model": "claude-fable-5",
  "case_id": "CASE-8JQJ",
  "identification": {
    "recognition_level": "style_only",
    "composer": null,
    "work": null,
    "movement": null,
    "confidence": 0.25,
    "evidence_ids": ["E001", "E002", "E003", "E013", "E015", "E016", "E017"],
    "reason": "D major, 3/4, two-voice keyboard texture with inverted mordents, trill, echo f/p dynamics, and a rounded-binary return over a secondary dominant indicates a Baroque or galant minuet-type harpsichord movement, but the melodic material does not match a specific work I can name with confidence."
  }
}
```

## Limitations

The dossier covers only four short windows, omitting the full first part, the movement's title, tempo, and instrumentation metadata, so identification rests entirely on melodic and harmonic fingerprints within roughly 25 measures. Many D major 3/4 keyboard minuets from the 1700s share these traits. Without external lookup I cannot rule out that this is a well-known movement whose incipit I failed to recognize from symbolic encoding alone; the style_only judgment reflects that uncertainty rather than certainty that the piece is obscure.
