"How closely related are the genres of these two songs?"

"- basically not at all, why? I mean, they're both intended to be - singable by amateurs? But they're not from related traditions or the same century."

"Well, I'm trying to derive as much of your music theory and style conventions as I possibly can and that's important context."

"Ah, makes sense. I can try to sing more complicated songs than I can play, I won't do it well but I won't completely lose the thread of what I'm doing?"

"I would really appreciate that!  Or if you just want to take them down I can learn your notation system.  - If taking down music is a thing you know how to do."

"It is not."

"Well then I'll do it and we'll see where things go from there."

"Did you say your lens had music on it?"

"It does, is that what we want to use its charge on?"

"One use among as many as we can fit in.  Probably if you work with Colley on plenty of songs we'll figure out a lot that way, and then we can bring in a group of people to transcribe the fully-instrumented versions of a few and use those to extrapolate much of the rest."

(Colley is bouncing and shoulder-shimmying.)

"Okay." And he will sing Amazing Grace and anything else he can remember the lyrics to, though for a lot of songs that's just the chorus and he has to mumble through some parts.

"I will also happily take tunes you don't remember lyrics for.  And if you remember harmonies or any other things going on besides the melody that would help a lot too."

"I do not remember any harmonies basically at all, sorry, but I can hum stuff." He hums stuff.

Colley transcribes it all into uncanny-valley sheet music and makes only a few mistakes in what she sings back to him to check that she got it right.

He will let her know when he notices a note being wrong.

"Do you know anything about how your sheet music works to compare against this?"

"Uh, some things. Not enough to transcribe any specific song but I know what it looks like approximately." He will write out a staff and draw a bass clef and put some notes of various values in at random.

" - Hm.  Kyeo, are you more familiar with it?"

He wobbles a hand, writes and labels the notes on a treble clef, remembers how to write sharps and flats. Draws a D major scale.

"I thiiiiiiiink," (she warbles) "this looks really similar to some ancient sheet music we have archived somewhere, but it's been a few decades since I looked at it and I don't remember for certain.  I'll try and dig up some copies overnight; it would be really exciting if we could discover how to interpret that."

Nod nod!

"I don't suppose either of you know anything directly about your music theory instead of just having examples that can be used to extrapolate."

Headshake.

"I could probably answer - some music theory related questions? But only because I'll have picked stuff up, not because I learned it systematically at all, so I don't know what to say from a cold start."