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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Motive

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 motive is a short, recurring musical fragment that develops throughout a composition.

Detailed Definition
Poets employ motive for a brief, repeated image, phrase, or rhythmic cell that evolves across the work, providing unity and variation. In literature, motives drive thematic development, much like in symphonies. This device fosters coherence in longer poems or sequences. Motive’s significance is its economical power—small units generate large structures. It appears in modernist and formal verse to create resonance and progression. By using motives, poets achieve musical economy and depth, turning repetition into transformative growth that rewards rereading and reveals layered meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
Motive repeats and develops a short phrase: the "falling leaf" motive recurs with variation throughout an autumn sequence.; Students track a motive's evolution to learn thematic unity.; In longer poems, motive provides economical development like musical fragments.; Educational: choose a three-word motive and transform it across stanzas.; Motive fosters coherence and resonance in sequences or cycles.; Poets use it for subtle progression without obvious repetition.
Additional Notes
Motive is a brief recurring fragment (image, phrase, rhythm) that develops through variation for unity and progression. Tip: select a short cell and transform it across a poem for economical depth. Related to theme. Exercises track motive evolution. Professors link to symphonic development. Motive demonstrates variational power, turning repetition into growth and rewarding rereading with layered insight.
Also Known As
Motif
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