Frank D'Accone

Frank (Anthony) D'Accone (born 13 June 1931, Somerville, MA) is an American musicologist. D'Accone is the author of pioneering documentary studies of the musicians and institutions that produced the music of the Florentine and Siennese Renaissance. His many modern editions of the music of this culture made available to present-day performers and scholars for the first time in several centuries a full and wide-ranging picture of the musical life in Tuscany during the Renaissance. His body of work “substantially extends current knowledge of the music history of the Italian Renaissance.”

He received BMus and MMus degrees from Boston University, where his teachers included Karl Geiringer and Gardner Read. At Harvard University he studied with Nino Pirrotta, A. Tillman Merritt, Randall Thompson and Walter Piston, receiving his MA in 1955 and PhD in 1960. During two years of archival work in Florence as John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellow in Music, he gathered material for his dissertation: “A Documentary History of Music in the Florentine Cathedral and Baptistry during the 15th Century”.

D'Accone was Assistant and Associate Professor at State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo (1960-1968), Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1966–67) and Yale University (1972-73). He was Professor of Music and Musicology at UCLA from 1968 until retirement in 1994. D’Accone’s research has focused on music of Florence and Siena from the 14th to the 17th centuries. His 12-volume Music of the Florentine Renaissance is a major source for scholarship on sacred and secular music of the period. His writing for scholarly journals covers a wide variety of topics ranging from individual composers (i.e., Gagliamo, Isaac, Pisano) to the musical activity in specific institutions (i.e., Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore). His writings present a broad view of musical culture in northern Italy during the Renaissance. With Howard Mayer Brown and Jesse A. Owens he has edited the series Renaissance Music in Facsimile, and with Gilbert Reaney the journal Musica Disciplina. He was also general editor of the Corpus mensurabilis musicae.

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