Melodic Structures in the Double Jigs of O’Neill’s <i>The Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems</i> (1907)

O’Neill’s The Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) is a collection foundational importance for the modern performance practice Irish traditional music. This article examines 365 double jigs this in terms their patterns motivic repetition using an analytical methodology devised to explicate and compare melodic structures each part. dataset demonstrates prevalence four standard structures: period (39%), sentence (11%), hybrid (35%), allied (2%). survey considers motives both within originating part (internal repetition) outside (external shows that as number parts increases, so too does amount average overall repetition. These findings may provide baseline assess other tune classifications (reel, hornpipe, etc.), historical collections, regional repertoires, output individual composers.