I have a Bachelor of Music with honors from Oberlin College Conservatory and a Master of Music from Indiana University. I am a native English speaker who grew up in Akron, Ohio, and I have eight years of experience in academic writing, especially about music. I would be delighted to develop a long term working relationship and collaborate on additional projects of this nature. Please see my Portfolio in my freelancer.com profile for full academic writing samples. I have also included an excerpt from a non-fiction paper on Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress below. Thank you for your consideration!
The Rake’s Progress typifies Neoclassicism in its musical forms, dramatic construction, and quality of sound. Stravinsky makes himself the Modern equivalent of the master of Classical operatic composition, utilizing the ingenious devices Mozart perfected in his later operas. The Rake’s Progress is a seamless series of individual “numbers.” The arias, duets, and ensembles are clear-cut, but flow together in continuous dramatic action. For example, Act II opens with an aria for Anne which becomes a duet for her with Tom, which becomes a trio upon Baba’s entrance, which builds to the entrance of the chorus to end the scene. Anne’s Act I aria “No word from Tom” recalls in form and function Fiordiligi’s aria “Come scoglio” from Mozart’s Così fan Tutte. The opera also ends with an epilogue in which the characters state the “moral of the story.” The epilogue, in both form and in