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.

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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European transitional period

Movement
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

The literary era marking shifts between major periods in European poetry, typically referring to changes in style and themes

Detailed Definition
European poetry from approximately 1400-1700, a period of dramatic cultural transformation bridging medieval, Renaissance, Mannerist, and early Baroque periods. This transitional era witnessed revival of classical learning, development of vernacular literatures, religious reformation, scientific revolution, and colonial expansion. European transitional period poetry reflects these changes through formal innovation, classical allusions, humanist philosophy, individual expression, and engagement with rapidly changing worldviews across Continental and English traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
European transitional period marks shifts between poetic eras: Dante’s “Vita Nuova” bridges medieval and Renaissance; Petrarch’s sonnets influence Elizabethan poets; Rilke’s “Duino Elegies” transition from Romanticism to Modernism; Apollinaire’s “Alcools” moves from Symbolism to Surrealism; post-WWII poets like Paul Celan redefine language after trauma.
Additional Notes
European poetry from roughly 1400-1700, transitioning from medieval through Renaissance to early Baroque. Period of formal innovation, classical revival, and emergence of national literatures. Saw development of sonnet, blank verse, and other enduring forms.
Also Known As
Renaissance to early Baroque Continental transitional verse early modern period European transformation era Early Modern (Continental Europe)
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