DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

JERUSALEM JEWETT 531
in Masfa' (Jephthah at Mizpeh) was the title
of a short oratorio by Sempliee, set by Barthelemon
at Florence in 1776 ; performed there,
in Rome—where a chorus from it even iienetrated
to the Pope's chapel, and procured the composer
two gold medals—and in London in 1779 and
1782. A copy of it is in the Library of the
Royal College of Music. (4) ' Jephtha and his
Daughter.' An oratorio in two parts ; the words
adapted from the Bible, the music by G. Rein-
thaler. Produced in England by Hullah at
St. Martin's Hall, April 16, 1856.
JERUSALEM. (1) Grand opera in
G.
four
acts ; music by Verdi, the words by Royer and
Waez ; being a French adaptation of I LoM-
BARDi. Produced at the Academic, Paris, Nov.
26, 1847. (2) A Sacred Oratorio in three
parts ; the words selected from the Bible by
W. Sancroft Holmes, the music by H. H.
Pierson. Produced at Norwich Festival,
Sept. 23, 1852.
JESSONDA.
G.
A grand German opera in three
acts ; the plot from Lemiere's novel ' La Veuve
du Malabar.' ^ Words by Edouard Gehe, music
by Spohr. Produced at Cassel, July 28, 1823
in London, at St. James's Theatre (German company),
June 18, 1840 ; in Italian, at Covent
Garden, Aug. 6, 1853. G.
JEUNE HENRI, LE. Opi^ra-comique in
libretto by Bouilly, music by Mehul.
two acts ;
Produced at the Theatre Favart, May 1, 1797.
The overture, ' La Chasse du Jeune Henri,' has
always been a favourite in France. The piece
was damned, but the overture was redemanded
on the fall of the curtain, having been already
encored at the commencement. G.
JEUNE, LE. See Le Jeune.
JEUX D'ANCHES. The French name for
the Reed Stops of an Organ.
JEWESS, THE. See JtiivE, La.
JEWETT, or JEWITT, Randolph (or
Rand.all), (1603-75). A church composer
and organist of some eminence. He was prob-
' ably born at Chester, where we find a Randle
Juet' as a chorister, from 1612 to 1615 ; or he
possibly may have been a son of John Jewett,
who was precentor's vicar at Christ Church,
Dublin, in 1619.
In 1631 Randolph Jewett succeeded Thomas
Bateson (ob. 1630) as organist of Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, and in the same year was
alsoappointed organistof St. Patrick's Cathedral,
which yiost he held, with the organistship of
Christ Church, until 1639. While organist of
Christ Church he seems to have introduced orchestral
music into the cathedral service. The
rather puritanically inclined Bishop Bedell was
much displeased with the pompous service at
that cathedral, ' which was attended and celebrated
with all manner of instrumental musick,
as organs, sackbutts, cornetts, violls, etc., as if it
had been at the dedication of Nebuchadnezzar's
1 See Spohr'B ^elbsibiograpliU, ii. 149.
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golden image in the plain of Dura.' This
description is in part borne out by a chapter
act of 1637, whereby the proctor was directed
to ' pay to the two sackbutts and two cornetts
for their service and attendance in this Cathe-
drall the sume of twenty nobles cache at or
before Easter next ensuing.'
In 1639 Jewett was succeeded in the post of
organist of Christ Church by Dr. Benjamin
Rogers. In the same year he was deprived of
the choral vicarage which he held in St. Patrick's
by the archbishop for not being in priest's orders.
He was restored in 1641. In 1642 we find
him at Chester, whither he was brought fi'om
Dublin in connection with some special services
on the occasion of a visit Irom the King. In
1643-44 he was organist of Chester Cathedral,
and as the cathedral accounts from 1644 to
1664 are missing, it is jirobable that he remained
there until 1646, when he returned to Dublin,
and was appointed a vicar choral of Christ
Church. This appointment was made on a
letter of recommendation from the Lord Lieutenant
(Lord Ormonde), which begins ' Having
understood howe much this bearer, Randall
Jewett, hath suffered for his good affections
towards His Majesty's Service, and howe ably he
is qualified in his p'feshion, and for the quire,*
etc. In the same year he was also appointed
vicar choral of St. Patrick's. He probably
returned to England on the suppression of the
cathedral estalilishments under the Commonwealth,
as we next find him at St. Paul's, where
he was almoner in 16 60, and in 1661 minor canon
and junior cardinal (an ancient office carrying no
duties, and held by a minor canon). In 1666
he was appointed organist, master to the chori-
sters, and lay vicar of Winchester Cathedral,
where he remained until his death in 1675. His
hurying-place in the north transept of the cathedral
is still marked by a stone bearing the
following inscription :
H. S. E.
Randolph .Jewet
Geneeosus
ob. Jul. 3 set. "2 Dom
1675.
He was succeeded at Winchester by John
Reading (the composer of the tune ' Adeste
Fideles, ' and
the ' ' Dulce Domum of Winchester
College). Jewett is stated by Hawkins (Hist.)
to have taken out his bachelor's degree in music
at Trinity College, Dublin, but no evidence on
the point is furnished by the college books.
The words of five anthems by Jewett appear
in the book of ' Anthems to be sung in the
Cathedral Church of the Holy and United Trinity
in Dublin.' Printed 1662. (See Clifford, vol.
i. 558ft.) Only one of these is now extant,
i>.
a Funeral Anthem, 'Iheardavoicc from Heaven,'
for solo and chorus, fireser"\-ed in Tudway's
collection, vol. iii. pp. 91-93. Mr. J. S. Bumpus
has an old cathedral book containing the bass
voice parts onl}' of some of these anthems, and