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We were visiting my husband's parents this Christmas. Three idle days, I was reading Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot for the second time, and came across "Music and sadness" section, where he mentions the Italian song "Bella Ciao": One topic led to another at random, and at some point - I'll never know why - I was reminded of an Italian restaurant in Ann Arbor where many years ago Carol and I had once eaten, called "Bella Ciao". Out of the blue, I asked, "Does the phrase 'Bella ciao' have some special significance, or is it just something somebody once made up for a restaurant name?" Without warning, Alex launched into a most haunting, sad melody in a very pure singing voice, and I found myself enormously moved without being able to say why, almost as if I'd known this heart-piercing song all my life. I remember this song. We had music classes in school when we were 11-12. Mostly we were made to listen to classical music on records, and sing in chorus to the accompaniment of our teacher. She chose the songs. I think, "Bella ciao" was the only song we actually liked to sing. We sing it in Russian translation. Interesting, that "ciao" (pronounced "chao") wasn't translated, as the word was borrowed into Russian and was quite popular at that time. If my memory serves me right, "bella" was replaced by "Mom", though, and instead of the sad theme of death there was "I go to visit the Sun" -- perhaps this variant of translation was designated specially for Soviet children. :-). Still the text was poetical and tragic enough, and, most important, the original melody was here. I tried to find "Bella ciao" on the Internet and found a few variants, this is the closest to what Hofstadter describes. I wish there was a single-voice-no-accompaniment record... Here is a rather joyful gipsied :-) version of the song, I like it a lot also.
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Re: Bella ciao
you have heard a version of this song by Garik Sukachev, have you not?
http://neprikasaemye.ru/mp3/bella_chao.mp3
Comment from Dmitry Melnik on December 28, 2004 12:12:18 PM PST
Hi Map, thanks to your article, I'm downloading the song...thank Dmitry too.
Comment from Ellen on December 29, 2004 2:46:25 PM PST
I never knew the meaning of the words I sang.. I learned a rough version for entertainment at work, we sing it to work up the crowd of guests on busy nights at the Italian resteraunt where I work. I was looking for the rest of lyrics online when I stumbled across this site. Someone would like to hear a single voice sing it? Maybe I'll record something and send it.. Of course I sing Soprano and all the recordings I've heard have been male. I'm sure my fellow singers at work would appreciate knowing the meaning, thanks!
Comment from Bluefirelucky on May 31, 2005 12:42:31 AM PDT
To Bluefirelucky: sure, send it to mapraputa on gmail...
Comment from Map on June 2, 2005 12:24:34 AM PDT
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