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Topic: Norma Question  (Read 2038 times)

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Norma Question
on: March 23, 2016, 02:15:12 PM
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?
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Re: Norma Question
Reply #1 on: March 23, 2016, 02:22:37 PM
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  :)

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Re: Norma Question
Reply #2 on: March 23, 2016, 02:43:24 PM
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.

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Re: Norma Question
Reply #3 on: March 23, 2016, 08:55:18 PM
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.

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and the earlier, 1954 recording:

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