Frank D'Accone

Musicologist Lewis Lockwood stated that 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.

His writing for scholarly journals covered a wide variety of topics ranging from individual composers (i.e., Gagliamo, Isaac, Pisano[9]) to the musical activity in specific institutions (i.e., Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore).

With Howard Mayer Brown and Jesse A. Owens he edited the series Renaissance Music in Facsimile, and with Gilbert Reaney the journal Musica Disciplina.

“The Singers of San Giovanni in Florence during the 16th Century”, Journal of the American Musicological Society, xiv (1961), 307-58; reprinted in The Garland Library of the History of Music, ed.

“The Intavolatura di M. Alammano Aiolli: A Newly Discovered Source of Florentine Renaissance Keyboard Music”, Musica Disciplina, xx (1966), 151–174.

“Bernardo Pisano and the Early Madrigal”, International Musicological Society: Congress Report, x, Ljubljana (1967), Kassel (1970), 96–107.

“Transitional Text Forms and Settings in an Early 16th-Century Florentine Manuscript”, Words and Music: The Scholar’s View, Cambridge (1972), 29–58.

“Music and Musicians at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinita, 1360–1363”, Memorie e contributi alla musica dal medioevo all’età moderna offerti a Federico Ghisi nel settantesimo compleanno (1901–1971), Bologna (1973), 131–151; reprinted in Music in Renaissance Florence: Studies and Documents, Aldershot (2006).

“Alcune note sulle Compagnie fiorentine dei Laudesi durante il Quattrocento”, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, x (1975), 86–114.

“Repertory and Performance Practice in Santa Maria Novella at the Turn of the 17th Century”, A Festschrift for Albert Seay, Colorado Springs (1982), 514–537; reprinted in Music and Musicians in 16th-Century Florence, Aldershot (2007): 71–136.

“Marco da Gagliamo and the Florentine Tradition for Holy Week Music”, La musique et le rite sacre et profane, II.

“Music at the Sienese Cathedral in the Later 16th Century”, Trasmissione e recezione delle forme di cultura musicale, Bologna (1987), Turin (1990), 729–736.

“The Sienese Rhymed Office for the Feast of Sant’Ansano”, L’Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento, Certaldo (1992), 21–40.

“Francesco Corteccia’s Peace Motet”, Et facciam dolçi canti: Studi in onore di Agostino Ziino, i, Lucca (2003), 407–438.

“Solving the Mystery of Francesco Corteccia’s ‘Book of Counterpoints’”, Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer.

Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, Colleen Reardon, eds., Musica franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D’Accone, Stuyvesant, NY (1996).