Thanks for sharing that Meself. Doesn't look like it'd answer my kind of questions, judging by the introduction.

"My proposal is that the distinctive melodic structure of these dance tunes should not be associated with any particular socio-economic class, but instead acknowledged to have been simply inherently connected with social dancing over history."

Looks to me like it's doing an "Imagined Village" for dance tunes.
I'm more interested in how a reel or jig or hornpipe is actually played (because that is what makes them what they are, ultimately). Looking at the contents list, it looks like her thesis is mostly about provenance and publication and dissemination of tunes. It doesn't look like there's much (if anything) in there about style and practice – the nuts and bolts about how the material of the tunes is physically realised by thinking, creative human beings. It's funny how little discussion of actual music there is in books about music!