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

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Interval

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

An interval is the distance in pitch between two notes, measured by scale steps and classified by quality such as major, minor, or perfect.

Detailed Definition
Poets reference interval to denote distances or relationships between sounds, ideas, or images, creating tension or consonance in juxtaposition. In literature, it aids discussion of sonic spacing or thematic gaps. Its significance parallels musical structure in prosody. This term deepens analysis of relational dynamics in poetry, where intervals of silence or echo generate meaning, enriching reader perception of measured connections that underpin harmony or discord in language.
Example
Example in poetry:
Intervals between stressed syllables create measured tension or consonance, guiding the reader's perception of relational dynamics.; Poets reference interval to denote sonic or thematic spacing.; In the prosodic analysis, intervals generate meaning through gaps.; The interval technique underpins harmony or discord.; Like musical intervals, the poem measures connections deliberately.; The poet manipulates intervals for structural depth.
Additional Notes
Interval measures pitch distance, creating tension or consonance. Poetry denotes relational spacing between sounds or ideas. Usage tip: manipulate gaps for meaning. Related to chromatic, it underpins harmony; professors analyze measured connections.
Also Known As
pitch distance sonic gap harmonic step lapse
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