Ernst Ferand

Ernst Thomas Ferand (1887-1972) (also known as Ernest Ferand and Ernst Ferand-Freund) was a Hungarian music educator and musicologist.

Biography

Little is known about Ferand's early life and education. He became interested in the methods of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and from 1925-1938 he taught at Austria's Hellerau-Laxenburg School.[1] In 1938 he published the influential treatise Die Improvisation in der Musik (Improvisation in Music).[2]

From 1939 until 1965 he was affiliated with the New School of Social Research.[3] He wrote a number of articles which were published in The Musical Quarterly and the Journal of the American Musicological Society. A reviewer of the English translation of his 1956 work "Improvisation in Nine Centuries of Western Music" referred to Ferand as "perhaps the most widely acknowledged authority on the subject [of improvisation in Western music.]"[4]

Ferand died on May 29, 1972 in Basel, Switzerland.[5]

Bibliography

Books
  • (1938). "Die Improvisation in der Musik: eine Entwicklungsgeschichtliche und Psychologische Untersuchung". Zurich: "Rhein-verlag".
  • (1956). "Die improvisation; in Beispielen aus neun Jahrhunderten abendländischer Music" (Improvisation in Nine Centuries of Western Music). Köln: "A. Volk Verlag".
  • (1957). "Improvisation", die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Lexikon) Bd.6, Kassel; Basel: Bärenreiter. pp. 1093-1135.
  • (1961). Improvisation in nine centuries of western music; an anthology with a historical introduction. Köln: Arno Volk Verlag. Series: Das Musikwerk(Anthology of music), no. 12.

Articles
  • Ernst Th. Ferand (July 1939). "The "Howling In Seconds" of the Lombards". The Musical Quarterly. 25 (3): 313–324. doi:10.1093/mq/xxv.3.313.
  • Ernst T. Ferand (1940). "Improvisation in Music History and Education". Papers of the American Musicological Society: 115–125.
  • Ernst T. Ferand (July 1941). "Two Unknown "Frottole"". The Musical Quarterly. 27 (3): 319–328. doi:10.1093/mq/xxvii.3.319.
  • Ernst T. Ferand (Oct 1942). "In Memoriam: Fernando Liuzzi". The Musical Quarterly. 28 (4): 494–504. doi:10.1093/mq/xxviii.4.494.
  • Ernest T. Ferand (Apr 1949). "Review: The Technique of Variation. A study of the Instrumental Variation from Antonio de Cabezón to Max Reger by Robert U. Nelson". The Musical Quarterly. 35 (2): 331–334. doi:10.1093/mq/xxxv.2.331.
  • Ernest T. Ferand (Jan 1951). ""Sodaine and Unexpected" Music in the Renaissance". The Musical Quarterly. 37 (1): 10–27. doi:10.1093/mq/xxxvii.1.10.
  • Ernest T. Ferand (Dec 1951). "Internationale Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft, Vierter Kongress, Basel, 29. Juni bis 3". Notes. Second Series. 9 (1): 126–127. doi:10.2307/890494.
  • E. T. Ferand (1956). "Improvised Vocal Counterpoint in the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque". Annales musicologiques (4): 147–151.
  • Ernest T. Ferand (Autumn 1957). "What Is "Res Facta"?". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 10 (3): 141–150. doi:10.1525/jams.1957.10.3.03a00020.
  • Ernest T. Ferand (Jan 1958). "Embellished "Parody Canatatas" in the Early 18th Century". The Musical Quarterly. 44 (1): 40–64. doi:10.1093/mq/xliv.1.40.

References
  1. "Obituaries". AMS Newsletter. 4 (2): 8. 15 Aug 1974.
  2. Solis, Gabriel & Bruno Nettl. Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society. 2009.
  3. Weber, Horst & Stefan Drees. "Sources Relating to the History of Emigre Musicians 1933-1950". p. 201
  4. Wishart, Peter. "Review: Improvisation in Nine Centuries of Western Music". The Musical Times, vol. 103, No. 1431. May, 1962
  5. Janet Rhoads Pinkowitz (Jun 1974). "Index to Music Necrology". Notes. 30 (4): 766–772.
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