Are you sure Anzoletti meant this piece to be a set of Varitions over a musical piece? I think he meant the madrigale as the poem form and not as the musical form - therefore "Variazioni sopra il tema d'un madrigale" as "Variations over the subject of this poem" (as it is a poem set in music in three different ways).
@@SisselOnline Uhm, I'm looking at the manuscript... That's weird, the "theme" is all written in breves, which is not standard even for that time. Also the definition of "corale profano" (?!) has little sense. I wonder if the theme F-E-D-E-A/D-E-A has some other meaning (some sort of acerostic?).
@@SisselOnline It looks more like a plainchant... But such refined historically informed notation wasn't so common at Anzoletti time. And most of all, "corale profano" is modern definition made by the Cecilian Movement... I wonder if his quoting one of those composers like Perosi.
