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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Triad

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 triad is a three-note chord built on a root, third, and fifth, forming the basis of harmony.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, triad metaphorically denotes a group of three interrelated elements—images, ideas, or sounds—that create harmonic or structural unity. It appears in triptychs or ternary patterns. From basic harmony, triads ground complex textures. Its literary use provides concise balance and resonance. Triad underscores poetry’s chordal possibilities, where three parts combine for stability or tension, enriching thematic architecture and offering simple yet profound building blocks for emotional and intellectual harmony in verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Triad groups three elements harmoniously: "hope, fear, resolve formed a tense triad pulling the speaker in three directions."; Poets build structural or imagistic triads for stability or chord-like resonance.; Educational: construct a stanza around a root-third-fifth idea triad.; Triad offers concise building blocks for thematic unity.; It appears in triptych or ternary patterns.; Students explore triad tension and resolution in short forms.
Additional Notes
Triad forms a basic three-note chord (root, third, fifth) as harmony foundation; in poetry, three interrelated elements create structural or thematic unity. Tip: build stanzas around idea triads. Offers concise balance. Educational for triptychs. Triad provides stable building blocks for resonance or tension in verse architecture.
Also Known As
three-note chord harmonic foundation major minor block Triplet
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