Instead, I managed to learn Ye Mariners All aka A Jug of This. One of my favorite sea shanties. The tune evokes New Bedford and the whaling trade whenever I listen to it.
After learning that tune, and playing it (on guitar,) I moved on to Scarborough Fair. I played around a bit with The Old Dun Cow and barely got past the first line. It's a fast little thing, and I haven't been playing much, so I was losing it in the sixteenth notes.
The intonation on the acoustic is shot to hell, so it sounds in tune on the open strings and the first handful and a half of frets. Blah.
Found the first part of my transcription of Mozart's Requiem k.626, so I played that through a few times. I can read along slowly enough with it that it starts to evoke the real thing, but it's got quite a lot of twists and turns (as one would expect when trying to fit parts for several different sections of an orchestra on one instrument!) so it's not as easy to pick up as a traditional tune.
After playing them for Justin and Rachel, Justin showed an interest in learning them - also expressed that he hadn't really listened to much Mozart. I grabbed some Neville Mariner and the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields discs and played him the opening of the Requiem as well as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (which he did recognize.) Gave him a disc with that serenade, a divertimento, and A Musical Joke on it for listening tonight.
After that, Justin came in to read through Scarborough Fair and then went off to play it on the keyboard. I played the melody in stages until he had picked it up. Very cool stuff.
In the less than happy category, Deb went down the street to join in with a bunch of the other neighbors for a prayer circle for Mara, who has inoperable brain cancer - she had been doing good with chemo back in October, and I'm not sure how long things were going on before that, but she's basically on her final notice. Later this week, people will be dropping off food for them, because their family and friends will be over.
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