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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

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Premier Cru

Viniculture
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

Premier Cru is a classification below Grand Cru, indicating high-quality vineyards in Burgundy and Champagne.

Detailed Definition
Premier Cru symbolizes near-perfection, recognized excellence, and hierarchical distinction in verse. It suggests achievement just shy of the top, valued but not supreme. Poets use it to explore themes of aspiration, the nuances of ranking, or the beauty of the second tier. It reflects the human tendency to categorize, while acknowledging that great value exists outside the absolute peak.
Example
Example in poetry:
Premier Cru ranked below Grand Cru, a village-level elegance the poet called "the respectful lieutenant"; He wrote of Premier Cru as the noble's cousin, a climatically superior plot that still yields excellent fruit; In her classification poem, Premier Cru was the worthy runner-up, a wine with a clear voice but less hubris; The poet compared Premier Cru to a fine sonnet—less famous than the epic, but perfectly crafted and deeply satisfying; She called it the first growth's shadow, a terroir that demands attention though it lacks the crown
Additional Notes
Premier Cru is a classification level below Grand Cru, used primarily in Burgundy and Champagne to denote vineyards of exceptional quality that are not quite at the pinnacle of the Grand Cru level; in Burgundy, Premier Cru vineyards are recognized for their distinct terroir and are often the source of wines of great finesse, complexity, and value, while in Champagne, Premier Cru applies to villages (not single vineyards) and determines pricing and quality perception; for students, Premier Cru serves as an educational marker of the hierarchy of quality and the importance of vineyard classification, and in poetry, it can represent the high aspirations of a work that is excellent but perhaps not transcendent, a reminder that greatness has degrees and that the second rank can still be glorious.
Also Known As
first growth elite vineyard classified excellence
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