A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

Bar

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

A bar, or measure, is a segment of music enclosed by vertical lines, organizing beats into regular rhythmic units according to the time signature.

Detailed Definition
Poets reference bar to denote rhythmic units or divisions in verse structure, where lines or stanzas function like measures containing patterned stresses. In literature, it aids analysis of metrical regularity or variation within poetic “bars.” Its significance bridges notation with prosody, highlighting how poetry organizes time similarly to music. By evoking bars, writers and readers perceive verse as measured flow, facilitating discussion of syncopation or regularity and deepening appreciation for rhythmic architecture that underpins emotional and sonic coherence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Each bar in the poem organizes stresses into regular rhythmic units, mirroring musical measures that contain patterned beats.; Poets divide verses into bars to analyze metrical regularity or deliberate variation within fixed units.; In the ballad, the four-beat bar structures the narrative flow like a musical measure.; The poet marks bar lines implicitly through consistent line lengths to control temporal grouping.; Like a time signature's bar, the stanza functions as a self-contained rhythmic container.; Students identify how the poem varies content within each bar while preserving overall pulse.
Additional Notes
Bar (measure) organizes beats into regular rhythmic units via time signatures. Poetry students use it to analyze metrical divisions, where lines or stanzas function as contained units of stress patterns. Usage tip: map bars to assess regularity versus variation for prosodic control. Related to meter and pulse, it bridges notation to verse; professors employ it for discussing temporal grouping and how content varies within structured containers, deepening rhythmic architecture appreciation.
Also Known As
Measure sandbar shoal
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