Norma Question

[abel2]

In Liszt Reminiscences de Norma there's a melody under big arpeggios that starts on page 94 and goes basically through to the end. And I can't find it anywhere in the opera. Does anyone know what  song from Norma Liszt uses here?

[visitor]

In Liszt Reminiscences de Norma there's a melody under big arpeggios that starts on page 94 and goes basically through to the end. And I can't find it anywhere in the opera. Does anyone know what  song from Norma Liszt uses here?

is it a transcription or a paraphrase? paraphrases typically include elaborations not int he original and some original melodic/thematic content (including variation and thematic transformation). the work is a paraphrase, then it may be Liszt up to his composer antics 

[abel2]

is it a transcription or a paraphrase? paraphrases typically include elaborations not int he original and some original melodic/thematic content (including variation and thematic transformation). the work is a paraphrase, then it may be Liszt up to his composer antics  

A paraphrase, I believe. However, it's in the Thalberg Paraphrase too, which make me think it's from the opera.

[remy]

It's the last scene of the opera. Bellini wrote the melody in alternating dotted eight-sixteenth notes; Liszt smoothed them out to mostly eight notes. That's probably why you can't find it.

=2h38m39s

and the earlier, 1954 recording:

&feature=youtu.be&t=21m


remy