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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.

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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Tchaikovsky

Historical Figure
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

Russian Romantic composer known for emotional intensity, ballet scores, symphonies, and lyrical drama.

Detailed Definition
Tchaikovsky appears in poetry as a figure of passionate melody, tragic feeling, and dramatic emotional sweep. His music carries associations of dance, winter, yearning, fairy tale, and inward torment. Poets invoke him when language turns orchestral, when beauty trembles on the edge of sorrow, or when personal vulnerability is magnified into public, unforgettable music.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet might use Tchaikovsky to evoke sweeping emotion, ballet, and Romantic sorrow; Swan Lake can inspire poems about beauty trapped inside enchantment; A poem might compare a storm of feeling to Tchaikovsky’s orchestral surges; His name may suggest longing, theatrical passion, and music on the edge of tears
Additional Notes
Tchaikovsky brings poetry a mixture of lyric splendour, emotional exposure, theatrical drama, and dance-like momentum. His ballets can evoke enchanted worlds, swans, sleeping courts, and nutcracker fantasies, while his symphonies suggest fate, longing, and romantic intensity. A poetic reference may therefore move between glittering surface and private anguish, music as public spectacle and music as confession.
Also Known As
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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