October 20

Today I landed back in Atlanta and I went back over my outline and made it rhyme. I looked online for whether or not arias rhymed - I looked at lyrics for a few operatic arias and it seemed like there wasn’t any set rhyme scheme. For example, Puccini is an Italian composer and I couldn’t spot a rhyme scheme in his aria “Mi chiamano Mimi”, but it didn’t matter because in Italian most of the words end in vowels, so rhyming is easy. However, Mozart is a German composer, and in the aria “O zittre nicht”, he used the AABB rhyme scheme, which I chose to use as well. I used the website RhymeZone to help me find good rhyming words, and often if I needed a rhyme, but was at a loss for what to say, simply finding a rhyming word that I liked would prompt a thought and give me another rhyme. Here is my document with the refined libretto. Currently it is a Da Capo aria, but I am thinking of adding another verse that talks more about her beauty and making it a Rondo, but we’ll see. I am going to try to talk to Ms. Wade-Chung tomorrow about which of the composing websites she thinks would be best for me since I’m going to start composing soon now that I have a libretto.

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