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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 leu

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 clear and accessible style of troubadour poetry, using plain language and direct expression to reach a broader audience. The stylistic opposite of the hermetic trobar clus.

Detailed Definition
Trobar leu, meaning light or easy composition in Occitan, designates the accessible and transparent style of troubadour lyric, characterized by clear language, direct expression, and easily comprehensible meaning. Associated with poets such as Guiraut de Bornelh, who called himself master of the trobar leu, it aimed to reach the widest possible audience rather than an exclusive elite. The debate between trobar clus and trobar leu mirrors fundamental questions about poetic communication that recur throughout literary history: should poetry aspire to difficulty and exclusivity, or to clarity and democratic accessibility across social boundaries?
Example
Example in poetry:
Trobar leu favours clarity, elegance, and accessibility in troubadour poetry; A love lyric with direct emotional language exemplifies trobar leu; Students compare straightforward diction in trobar leu with the obscurity of trobar clus; A poet choosing lucid expression over complexity adopts a trobar leu approach
Additional Notes
Tirade in French literary analysis usually refers to an extended rhetorical speech or sustained poetic outpouring, especially in dramatic contexts. Students should distinguish it from simple verbosity, since the tirade often serves strategic expressive or argumentative purposes. Compare with monologue and declamatory verse traditions. Analysing a tirade involves tracking rhetorical escalation, repetition, and emotional architecture across extended verbal performance rather than isolating individual lines.
Also Known As
Open trobar Light style Easy style
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