A dance from the William Calvert ms. booklet

One page from a manuscript fiddler's tune book that, according to its IMSLP entry, dates from 1812. The tune at the top is "The Moon and Seven Stars" -- see the facsimile. It is a jig in two strains, the first of which holds close to the ^5-^8 interval frame it announces immediately, the second of which realizes a rising figure within that space, a figure that was possible but remained unrealized in the first strain. See the second graphic, an analysis with comments; and also the third graphic, which shows the interval spaces (proto-backgrounds).

Facsimile:

 Analysis:

Proto-background (intervallic) spaces: