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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.

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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Cadence

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 cadence is a melodic or harmonic ending that gives a phrase a sense of arrival, pause, or continuation.

Detailed Definition
Cadence shapes how music closes a phrase, whether with firm resolution, suspended expectation, or deliberate ambiguity. In poetry, cadence is the patterned movement of stresses, pauses, syntax, and sounds toward a line ending or conclusion. A strong cadence can make a statement feel final; a broken or delayed cadence can keep thought open, producing suspense, hesitation, irony, or the sense that the poem continues beyond its visible ending.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cadence is the rhythmic or melodic close of a phrase, as in the falling final rhythm of “And miles to go before I sleep”; A poet can create a firm cadence with a series of stressed monosyllables, such as “Break, fall, end”; A rising cadence may leave a question suspended, while a falling cadence can make a line sound conclusive; Repeating “I remember” at the ends of successive lines creates a recognizable verbal cadence.
Additional Notes
A cadence is a point of musical arrival, pause, or suspension, created through melody, harmony, rhythm, or phrasing. A final cadence may provide strong closure, while an imperfect or half cadence may leave a phrase sounding unfinished and invite continuation. Poets can use cadence to describe the way a line or stanza comes to rest, especially through punctuation, stressed syllables, rhyme, or a deliberate falling rhythm. Related ideas include closure, caesura, and enjambment.
Other Meanings of “Cadence”
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