Background
D'Accone, Frank Anthony was born on June 13, 1931 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Salvatore and Maria (DiChiappari) D'A.
(Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone...)
Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers. Tracing the origins and development of musical chapels at the Cathedral and Baptistery, and the growth of musical establishments at several other churches such as the Santissima Annunziata, Santa Trinita and San Lorenzo, D'Accone examines the effect of Medici patronage, on the one hand, and the impact of Savonarola, on the other, and at the careers of individual composers such as Heinrich Isaac.
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(This study of Scarlatti's first and most-performed opera ...)
This study of Scarlatti's first and most-performed opera investigates the reasons for its popularity, initially political, but subsequently musical. Among the details inspected are the social and political situation in Rome; an analysis of the music and libretto; the earliest Roman performances using hitherto unpublished contemporary documents and comparisons with other works performed-during the Carnival of 1679; Queen Christina's early patronage of Scarlatti and his first opera; subsequent performances through 1699, the last-known production; and conclusions about the importance of this opera.
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(This second selection of studies by Frank D'Accone, again...)
This second selection of studies by Frank D'Accone, again based principally on the documentary evidence, follows the development through the mid 16th century of musical chapels at the Cathedral and the Baptistery of Florence and of musical establishments at the Santissima Annunziata and San Lorenzo. The lives, careers and works of composers associated with these churches are illustrated and their works analyzed, particularly the theoretical treatise by Fra Mauro, the madrigals of Mauro Matti and the ambitiously conceived canzone cycle of Mattia Rampollini. The final studies, moving into the 17th century, look at the music for Holy Week, and the unprecedented programme of performances at Santa Maria Novella.
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( Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ec...)
Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs. Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of music and music-making in Siena. After detailing the history of music and liturgy at Siena's famous cathedral and of civic music at the Palazzo Pubblico, D'Accone describes the crucial role that music played in the daily life of the town, from public festivities for foreign dignitaries to private musical instruction. Putting Siena squarely on the Renaissance musical map, D'Accone's monumental study will interest both musicologists and historians of the Italian Renaissance.
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D'Accone, Frank Anthony was born on June 13, 1931 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Salvatore and Maria (DiChiappari) D'A.
Bachelor of Music, Boston University, 1952. Master of Music, Boston University, 1953. AM, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960.
Assistant professor music, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1960-1963; associate professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1964-1968; professor music, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968-1994; department chairman, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1976; chairman faculty, University of California at Los Angeles (College Fine Arts), 1976-1979; department chairman musicology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989-1993. Visiting professor music Yale University, 1972-1973.
(This second selection of studies by Frank D'Accone, again...)
(Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone...)
( Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ec...)
(This study of Scarlatti's first and most-performed opera ...)
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Musicol. Society (honorary, director 1973-1974), International Musicol.