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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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

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.

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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Russian Golden Age

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

Early-to-mid 19th-century Russian poetry led by Pushkin and Lermontov

Detailed Definition
Russian Golden Age (early-to-mid 19th century) marks the flourishing of Russian poetry under Pushkin, Lermontov, and Baratynsky, who synthesized European forms with native diction and themes; Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (in Onegin stanzas) epitomizes this era’s lyrical innovation, national consciousness, and linguistic refinement.
Example
Example in poetry:
Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” exemplifies Russian Golden Age poetry with its Onegin stanza and social realism; Mikhail Lermontov’s “Demon” blends Romanticism and national myth; In “The Bronze Horseman,” Pushkin merges Petersburg’s grandeur with individual tragedy; Contemporary poets like Joseph Brodsky inherit Golden Age lyricism; Student reference: Golden Age fused European forms with Russian folk motifs and Orthodox spirituality.
Additional Notes
Russian Golden Age flourished early-to-mid 19th century with Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev. Revolutionary period for Russian literature. Combined Romantic and Realist elements. Pushkin established modern Russian literary language. Essential cultural transformation.
Also Known As
Russian nineteenth-century Pushkin era Golden Age Russian Romantic Russian
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