Frank D'Accone
Frank A. D’Accone (June 13, 1931 – June 26, 2022) was an American musicologist who studied Renaissance music in Florence and Siena. Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, he earned BMus and MMus at Boston University and later earned his MA (1955) and PhD (1960) at Harvard University, where he studied with noted scholars. His doctoral work, based on two years of archival research in Florence, produced A Documentary History of Music in the Florentine Cathedral and Baptistry in the Fifteenth Century.
He taught at SUNY Buffalo (1960–1968) and UCLA (professor from 1968 to 1994), with a stint at Yale as a visiting professor. D’Accone’s research illuminated the musical life of 14th–17th century Tuscany, and his 12-volume Music of the Florentine Renaissance is a major reference for the period. He also edited Renaissance Music in Facsimile with Howard Mayer Brown and Jesse A. Owens, helped edit Musica Disciplina with Gilbert Reaney, and served as general editor of Corpus mensurabilis musicae.
D’Accone received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the ACLS, and others, and was honored by Italian and American institutions, including membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Galileo International Prize. He died in Laguna Beach, California, at age 91.
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