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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Augmentation

Musical Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Augmentation is the lengthening of note values or rhythmic motifs, often doubling durations to create broader, more stately versions of themes.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, augmentation refers to stretching syllables, phrases, or motifs for expanded emphasis, slowing pace to magnify emotional or thematic weight. Poets use it in repetition or development sections to build grandeur from concise ideas. Drawing from contrapuntal techniques, it underscores literary expansion of core images. This term’s value enhances structural depth, allowing verse to evolve motifs organically while heightening impact through temporal dilation, inviting readers to experience magnified resonance and the transformative power of elongation in both music and poetic form.
Example
Example in poetry:
Through augmentation, the poet doubles the duration of the opening motif, stretching the theme of loss into a broader, more solemn statement.; Poets use augmentation to expand core images, lengthening syllables for magnified emotional weight.; In the variation section, augmentation transforms the quick motif into stately, drawn-out lines.; The augmentation technique builds grandeur from a concise idea across successive stanzas.; Like contrapuntal augmentation, the verse elongates the rhythmic pattern for greater emphasis.; The poet applies augmentation to slow and enlarge the recurring image of time's passage.
Additional Notes
Augmentation lengthens note values or motifs, often doubling durations for broader, stately versions. In poetry, it stretches syllables, phrases, or images to magnify weight, building grandeur from concise ideas. Usage tip: apply in repetition or development to expand emotional scale. Related to diminution and variation, it teaches organic motif evolution; professors link contrapuntal techniques to verse, showing temporal dilation's power in heightening impact and thematic transformation.
Also Known As
Expansion
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