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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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

Canon

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 canon is a compositional technique where a melody is imitated by one or more voices after a delay, creating overlapping, interwoven lines.

Detailed Definition
Poets invoke canon for repetitive or echoing structures where phrases overlap or pursue one another, generating polyphonic density in verse. In literature, it appears in forms like villanelles or fugal poems that build through imitation. Its significance lies in evoking musical counterpoint through verbal echoes, enriching texture and thematic development. By using canon, poetry achieves layered simultaneity, allowing readers to perceive interwoven meanings and rhythmic complexity that mirror contrapuntal depth, celebrating imitation as a source of artistic unity and proliferation.
Example
Example in poetry:
The canon structure repeats the opening phrase at staggered intervals, creating interwoven echoes that build polyphonic density across stanzas.; Poets employ canon in villanelle-like forms where lines pursue and imitate one another.; In the fugal poem, canon technique generates layered simultaneity of themes.; The canon effect produces rich textual interplay through delayed repetition.; Like musical canons, the verse celebrates imitation as a source of unity.; The poet applies canon to develop motifs through overlapping verbal pursuit.
Additional Notes
Canon imitates a melody after delay, creating overlapping lines. Poetry applies canon to echoing or pursuing phrases for polyphonic density. Usage tip: stagger repetitions for interwoven themes. Related to contrapuntal and fugue, it generates layered simultaneity; professors value imitation's unifying power in villanelle-like or developmental structures.
Also Known As
imitative form round composition perpetual chase
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