Jones, William
(1726–1800)
WILLIAM JONESJONES, WILLIAMWILLIAM JONES [bapt. 1726-† 1800] William Jones, an English clergyman, lamented the increasingly secular explanations which were offered for music and considered the compositional practices of his day to be »depraved.« His reactionary musical theory is based upon the Old Testament and upon seventeenth-century mechanistic theory. For him, God played an important role in the creative process. Jones's lifelong fascination with science fostered his awareness of basic…