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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

Chord

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 chord is the simultaneous sounding of multiple notes, creating harmony.

Detailed Definition
Poets use chord to describe harmonious or dissonant combinations of sounds, images, or emotions within a line or stanza. In literature, it evokes the vertical layering of meaning—how words resonate together like notes in a triad. This musical concept enriches poetry by suggesting consonance or tension in thematic clusters, enhancing sonic and semantic unity. Chords appear in analyses of dense imagery or sound clusters, reminding readers of poetry’s harmonic architecture. Its significance lies in portraying verse as orchestrated sound, where disparate elements blend into emotional or intellectual resonance, deepening the reader’s experience of language as a multifaceted, vibrating entity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Poets combine images into a chord: "grief and joy strike a dissonant chord in memory's silent hall, vibrating together."; In dense stanzas, multiple themes sound simultaneously like a musical chord for harmonic depth.; Educational: students layer three related images in one line to form a "chord" of meaning, practicing concision.; Sound clusters create chord effects through assonance and consonance blending words vertically.; In analysis, critics note how Keats piles sensory details into rich chords of imagery.; Chord appears metaphorically for emotional or thematic harmony/dissonance in unified passages.
Additional Notes
Chord layers multiple notes—images, sounds, or ideas—simultaneously for harmonic or dissonant resonance, enriching a line or stanza with vertical depth beyond linear progression. Poets create chords via dense assonance, thematic clusters, or sensory overload. Tip: stack three related but distinct elements in one phrase to test unity or tension. Related to triad (basic three-note chord) and polyphony. Educational value lies in analyzing how chordal passages add complexity without chaos. Professors might assign chord-mapping of rich stanzas in Keats or modernist works. This concept reminds students that poetry possesses harmonic architecture akin to music, where simultaneous elements vibrate together to produce richer emotional or intellectual impact than sequential melody alone.
Also Known As
simultaneous tones harmonic cluster vertical sound accord
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