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 C

Chaconne

Dance
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 stately dance and musical form built on repeating harmonic patterns.

Detailed Definition
The chaconne began as a lively dance and developed into a slow, grave musical form structured around repeated bass or harmonic patterns. Poets may borrow its sense of recurrence when writing about grief, memory, ritual, or desire that returns in altered forms. To call a passage a chaconne suggests variation within constraint: each stanza, gesture, or image may circle back to a familiar foundation while accumulating emotional weight and formal richness.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The chaconne returned, again and again, beneath each changing verse” emphasizes the dance form’s repeating bass pattern; A poet can build stanzas around a recurring line to create a chaconne-like structure; “Grief was a chaconne, one dark step repeated through the years” uses recurrence as a metaphor for mourning; In a musical poem, the chaconne can suggest variation growing from a persistent emotional ground
Additional Notes
A Chaconne combines dance with a musical structure based on recurring bass or harmonic patterns. This repetition makes it useful as a metaphor for variation within continuity, where changing images return to an underlying emotional ground.
Other Meanings of “Chaconne”
Also Known As
Chacona Ciaccona
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