I appreciate all of you who took the time to comment on this. I do have a better understanding at this point of some things that I have always taken for granted. A precursory search of the internet provide nothing, but that could have been due to the mispelling of "aire". I figured Mudcatters would come through.

Would it be accurate to say that "aire" refers to songs or music that would not normally be used for dances or does not fall into other categories such as reels, marches, hornpipes, waltzes, etc.