DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

544 JONES JONES
Movements of the Modem Greek Daucea. and a short Dissertation
on the * Origin of the Ancient Greelt Music,' 180-1 ; The Minstrel's
' Serenades ' ; Terpsichore's Banquet, a Selection of Spanish, Maltese,
llussian, Armenian, Hindostan, English, German, French, and
' Swiss Airs ; The Musical Miscellany, chiefly selected ' from eminent
composers'; 'Musical Remainsof Handel, Bach, Abel, etc. ' ; Choice
' Collection of Italian Songs ' ; The Musical Portfolio ; consisting
of
English, Scotch, Irish, and other favourite Airs'; 'Popular
Cheshire Melodies'; 'Musical Trifles calculated for Beginners on
the Harp'; and 'The Musical Bouquet, or Popular Songs and
liallads.'
13esii:les his jirofessional pursuits Jones filled
a situation in the Office of Robes at St. James's
Palace. He collected an extensive library of
scarce and curious books, part of which, to the
value of about £300, he sold in the latter
part of his life, and the remainder was dispersed
by auction after his death, realising about
£800. He died (as he was born, on Easter
Day), Ain-il 18, 1824. w. H. H.
JON"ES, Edward, an early music typographer
who for a time, after the death of John Playford,
,)unior, printed the Playford publications.
These include Hannonia Sacra, 1688-93 ;
Apollo's Banquet, 1690-93 ; the eighth edition
of the Dancing Master, 1690, etc. His printing
office was in the Savoy, and he is perhaps the
Edward Jones referred to by Thomas Mace in
Mustek's Monumc'iit, 1676, as possessing a valu-
able lute. F. K.
JONES, JoHX, born 1728, became organist
of the Middle Temple, Nov. 24, 1749 ; of the
Charterhouse (following Dr. Pepusch), July 2,
1753 ; and of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dec. 25,
1755. He died, in possession of these three
seats, Feb. 17, 1796, and was buried in the
Charterhouse. He published several sets of
harpsichord lessons, and ' Sixty Chants Single
and Double' (1785) in the vulgar, florid taste
of that time. One of these was sung at George
III.'s state visit to St. Paul's, April 23, 1789,
and at many of the annual meetings of the
Charity Children. At the latter, in the year
1791, Haydn heard it, and noted it in his diary
as follows (with a material improvement in the
taste of the fourth line) :
' No music has for a long time affected me so much
as this innocent and reverential strain.' G.
JONES, Richard, a fine violinist and com-
]>oser for the instrument. He succeeded Stefano
Carbonelli as leader of the hand at Drury Lane
Theatre about 1730, and was in turn succeeded
at that post by Richard Clarke and Michael
Christian. Festing was one of his distinguished
piupils. Jones wrote a hook of ' Chamber airs '
and one of ' Suites.' In Wm. Randall's list for
1776 he is noted as composer of some 'Lessons
for the Harpsichord,' [irobably first issued by
Walsh. A fine sonata for the violin by him is
included in .'iltVed Moflat's Mcister Schule. For
his period his -violin technique, as displayed in
his sonatas, is distinctly advanced. F. K.
JONES, Robert [who took the degree of
Mus.B. at Oxford, from St. Edmund's Hall in
1597], was a celebrated lutenist, published [and
dedicated to the first Earl of Leicester] in 1600
'The First Booke of Ayrcs, '—one of the pieces
in which, ' Farewell deere love ' (alluded to by
Shakespeare in ' Twelfth Night '), is printed in
score in J. S. Smith's Musiea Antigua—and
' The Second Booke of Songs and Ayres, set out
to the Lute, the Base Violl the playue way, or
the Base by tableture after the leero fashion
[dedicated to Sir Henry Lennard] ; a song from
which— ' My
love bound me with a kisse, ' is
likewise given in Musica Antiqua. He contributed
the madrigal, ' Faire Oriana, seeming to
wink at folly, ' to ' The Triumpjhes of Oriana,
published in the same year. In 1607 he
published ' The First Set of Madrigals of 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8 parts, for Viols and Voices, or for
Voices alone, or as you please,' and in 1608
' Ultiraum Vale, or the Third Book of Ayres of
1, 2, and 4 Voyces.' [An unique copy of this
is in the Royal College of Music] In 1609
appeared ' A Musicall Dreame, or the Fourth
Booke of Ayres ; The first part is for the Lute,
two voyces and the Viole de Gambo : The second
part is for the Lute, the Viole and four voices
to sing ; The third part is for one voyce alone,
or to the Lute, the Base Viole, or to both if you
please, whereof two are Italian Ayres.' In
1610 he published 'The Muses Gardin for
delights, or the Fift Booke of Ayres only for the
Lute, the basse Violl and the Voyce.' [The
words of these airs were reprinted in 1901,
edited by Mr. W. Barclay Squire, from a (probably
uniijue) copy in the possession of the Earl
of Ellesmere.] He contributed three pieces to
Leighton's ' Teares or Lamentaeions ' published
in 1614. In 1616 Jones, in conjunction with
Philip Rosseter, Philip Kingman, and Ralph
Reeve, obtained a privy seal for a patent authorising
them to erect a theatre, for the use of the
Children of the Revels to the Queen, within the
precinct of Blaokfriars, near Puddle Wharf, on
the site of a house occupied by Jones. But the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen were opposed to the
scheme, and procured from the Privy Council an
order prohibiting the building being so applied,
and by their influence Jones and his fellows were
compelled to dismantle their house and surrender
their patent, w. H. H. ; with additions from
the introduction to Mr. Squire's edition of the
poems.
JONES, Rev. William, kno\vn as
' Jones
of Nayland,' born at Lowick, Northamptonshire,
July 30, 1726, and educated at the
Charterhouse and at University College, Oxford.
He included music in his studies and became
very proficient in it. In 1764 he was presented
to the vicarage of Bethersden, Kent, and
subsequently became Rector of Pluckley in the