From medieval songs in Langue d'Oc to modern versions, through Jewish music, chansons de gestes and French and Italian narrative songs, will be unrevealed the long history of a song known all over the world: "Bella Ciao"
The lecture-concert by Giordano Dall'Armellina will help us learn more about the origins of this song.
Alessandra Zinni, choirmaster at the University of Milan-Bicocca, will introduce the event.
The meeting is one of the events related to the exhibition 'A forgotten memory: when even in Milan we went to the shelters', on display until 24 February.
- Bella Ciao
- Koilen (Klezmer music)
- Silberne Kasene (Klezmer music)
- Fiore di Tomba (Polesine's version)
- La finta morta (Istrian version)
- La Pernette (French-Provençal version)
- Le Boier (Occitan ballad)
- Fiore di tomba (Piedmontese version)
- Les dos filhets del rei (Occitan ballad)
- J’ai une mechante mère (French ballad)
- La bevanda sonnifera (Veronese ballad)
- La mia nona l’è vecchierella (Val Sugana's version)
- Bella Ciao (version of the female rice harvesters)
- Where have all the flowers gone? (American folk song derived from a Cossack lullaby and European ballads with the theme of the flower on the grave)
Giordano Dall'Armellina, essayist, ethnomusicologist, linguist, guitarist and singer, is best known for his work as a researcher in the field of European folk balladry, an activity he has been pursuing for more than 40 years. He has some 2100 concerts to his credit on all continents, often in prestigious cultural settings. He wrote the essay "European Ballads from Boccaccio to Bob Dylan" also published in English. Attached to the book is an mp3 CD containing 81 songs (6 hours of music) performed with the collaboration of more than 70 artists well known in the folk-revival sphere.
To attend the event, you must register through the Affluences app.