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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Volume

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

The loudness or softness of a musical sound; in poetry, it can be a metaphor for the emotional intensity, dramatic pitch, or the "loudness" of an idea.

Detailed Definition
Poets use volume to control or describe intensity levels—shouting, murmuring, or swelling—in diction, line breaks, or typography. It shapes dramatic arc and emotional scale. From dynamic terminology, volume adds auditory depth. Its significance is in empowering poets to modulate force, creating contrasts that mirror psychological states and guide reader immersion. Volume reinforces poetry’s sonic dimension, treating language as audible phenomenon capable of filling or emptying space with feeling.
Example
Example in poetry:
Volume controls loudness: poets swell from soft murmur to full volume cry using typography, repetition, or syntax.; Educational: mark volume changes in drafts and revise for dynamic range.; Volume shapes dramatic arc and guides immersion.; It treats language as audible force filling emotional space.; Example: protest poem building volume from whisper to roar.; Students practice by performing low to high volume shifts.
Additional Notes
Volume controls loudness/softness, shaped by diction, typography, or syntax for dramatic scaling. Tip: modulate from murmur to cry across a poem. Guides immersion. Students practice volume shifts in performance. Volume treats language as audible force shaping emotional space and intensity.
Also Known As
Dynamics
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