Richard Douglas P. Jones is a British musicologist and editor, known especially for his work as a Bach scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he has taught at Cardiff University and Sheffield University.[1]
Jones prepared the two-volume Urtext edition of the Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 published by Oxford University Press in 1993.
Jones has edited the following keyboard works by Bach:
In 1997 he was appointed editor of piano examination pieces for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.[1]
Jones translated Alfred Dürr's standard work on Bach's cantatas to English.[2]
Jones wrote The Creative Development of J. S. Bach in two volumes, published in 2007 and 2013 by Oxford University Press.[2] David Ledbetter notes in a review of volume I for Early Music that the book is focused on the "composer's creative development", not found in comparable books: Christoph Wolff provided biographical details; David Schulenberg provided commentaries on individual keyboard pieces; Peter Williams discussed the complete organ works in the order of the BWV catalogue; and Alfred Dürr described the Bach cantatas following the liturgical year. Ledbetter summarises: "Anybody wishing to get to grips with the music of Bach will be well advised to equip themselves with this survey as their starting point."[3] A review of volume II by Peter Smaill compares "outstanding musical analysis" of the "all-embracing study of Bach's musical creativity, year by year" to the biography in three volumesbyPhilipp Spitta.[4]