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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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Trobar clus

French
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 deliberately obscure and hermeticstyle of troubadour poetry, accessible only to a learned elite. Its dense imagery and closed meaning were considered marks of the highest poetic sophistication.

Detailed Definition
Trobar clus, meaning closed or sealed composition in Occitan, designates the most demanding and hermetic style of troubadour lyric. Poets such as Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Arnaut Daniel cultivated an intentionally difficult language of rare words, complex syntax, and layered meanings accessible only to the initiated. This obscurity was not a failing but a sign of aristocratic refinement: poetry as a private communication between equals who share the cultural codes required to unlock its meaning. Trobar clus stands in direct opposition to trobar leu and reflects fundamental debates about the social function and ideal audience of poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Trobar clus uses obscure, densely layered language intended for elite audiences; Arnaut Daniel is often associated with the difficulty of trobar clus; A student contrasts a deliberately cryptic lyric with clearer troubadour styles; Hidden meanings and intellectual challenge define trobar clus technique
Additional Notes
Terza rima, though Italian in origin, became an important comparative form in French literary experimentation. Its interlocking rhyme scheme creates continuous forward propulsion, making closure structurally deferred. Students should focus on how linked rhyme shapes narrative or reflective momentum. Compare with more self-contained stanza forms such as the quatrain. Because French rhyme resources differ from Italian, adaptation of terza rima presents interesting technical challenges in French poetic practice.
Also Known As
Closed trobar Hermetic style
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