Biography
Giovanni Paolo Nodari (fl. 1620) was a 17th Century Brescian composer and madrigalist.
Composer unfortunately still ignored by musicologists, little knowledge is derived from the "Introductions" and "dedications" of his works. Certainly, given what he indicates in his dedication, he lived and worked in the convents of Mantua (Mantua, Gazzuolo) and Venice, in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (the most important house after the 'hermitage of Fiesole), which would publish his three printed works. Except for some madrigals, his production is mainly composed of sacred music in concert style, with and without instruments, whose plan is based on the eight tones of the Gregorian. Unlike the other three musician brothers of his,
In 1620 Nodari published a book of madrigals for five voices. No trace now remains of the original edition; shortly after its publication, however, the contents were copied into a manuscript known as British Library MS Egerton 3665, which includes 22 Nodari madrigals. The first of them, "Parlo misero o taccio", like many of the other pieces, is music to a text by Battista Guarini about a protagonist caught in the tentacles of a love dilemma.
His output consisted primarily of concertante-style church music, most of it contained in one volume of music each of the Vespers, Motets, and Magnificat psalms based on the eight Gregorian tones. His last publication (1620), which offers a great variety of textures and rhythms, shows that he was well versed in the fairly modern language of the northern Italian provinces. He could write nice melodies, but his harmonic sense was capricious, and the music consequently lacks a sense of direction.
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