Dr. Donna M. Arnold
University of North Texas
Library - SL - Music Library
(940) 565-2860
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Education

MLS, Texas Woman's University, 1991.
Major: Library and Information Studies
Dissertation Title: Scholar-librarians of the 19th Century
PhD, University of North Texas, 1982.
Major: Musicology
Dissertation Title: The Lute Music and Related Writings in the Stammbuch of Johann Stobaeus
MM, Southern Illinois University, 1971.
Major: Music History and Literature
Dissertation Title: The Operas of Franz Schubert
BM, University of Wisconsin, 1970.
Major: Music History, Theory
Dissertation Title: Beethoven's Insertion Arias

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Librarian III/Associate Librarian, University of North Texas. (September 1, 2004 – Present).
Librarian II, University of North Texas. (September 1, 1997 – August 31, 2004).
Librarian I, University of North Texas. (September 1, 1995 – August 31, 1997).

Professional Memberships

Beta Phi Mu International Library & Information Studies Honor Society. (1991 – Present).

Secretary/Treasurer, Texas Chapter Music Library Association. (1989 – Present).

International Dickens Fellowship, Denton Branch. (1980 – Present).

Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. (1971 – Present).

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. (1970 – Present).

Music Library Association. (February 1989 – February 2024).

member, American Musicological Society, Texas chapter. (2015 – 2016).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Carrier-McClimon, Carolyn, “Hearing the 'Töne eines Passionsliedes' in J.S. Bach's Christmas oratorio: The nineteenth-century critical reception of BWV 248". Bach; Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute XLV: 2. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Forney, Kristine K. “New Insights in the Career and Musical Contributions of Tielman Susato”. Tielman Susato and the Music of His Time. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Jovanović, Jelena. “The Power of Recently Revitalized Serbian Rural Folk Music in Urban Settings”. Music, Power, and Politics (New York: Routledge, 2005). RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Larkey, Edward. “Fighting for the Right (to) Party? Discursive Negotiations of Power in Preunification East German Popular Music,”. Music, Power, and Politics (New York: Routledge, 2005). RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Morgan-Ellis, Esther M. “Edward Meikel and Community Singing in a Neighborhood Picture Palace, 1925-1929”. American Music 32:2 (2014). RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Van Orden, Kate. “Tielman Susato, Music, and the Cultures of Print”. Tielman Susato and the Music of His Time. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
Book
Arnold, D. M. (2005). The Best Books for Academic Libraries, Volume 9, Music & fine arts, rev. ed..
Arnold, D. M. (2003). The Best Books for Academic Libraries, Volume 9, Music & fine arts.
Book Review
Arnold, D. M. (2023). Gordienko, Anastasia. Outlaw music in Russia: the rise of an unlikely genre.. 61(2), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/
Arnold, D. M. (2023). Clague, Mark. "O say can you hear?: a cultural biography of "The Star-spangled banner". Choice. 60(9), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/
Arnold, D. M. (2023). Simon, Julia. The inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: blues, race, identity.. Choice. 60(8), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/
Arnold, D. M. (2023). Goldin-Perschbacher, Shana. Queer country.. 60(5), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/
Arnold, D. M. (2022). Tassie, Gregor. The three apostles of Russian music: the Soviet avant-garde. Lexington Books, 2022.. 60(1), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Arnold, D. M. (2022). Church, Michael. Musics lost and found: song collectors and the life and death of folk tradition. Boydell Press, 2021.. Choice. 5912, 1. Chicao, IL: American Library Association.
Arnold, D. M. (2022). November, Nancy. Beethoven’s symphonies arranged for the chamber: sociability, reception, and canon formation. Cambridge, 2021.. Choice. 59(12), . Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Arnold, D. M. (2022). Zuk, Patrick. Nikolay Myaskovsky: a composer and his times. Boydell & Brewer, 2021. Choice. 59(9), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Arnold, D. M. (2022). Schmelz, Peter John. Sonic overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and polystylism in the late USSR. Oxford, 2020. Choice. 59(8), . Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Arnold, D. M. (2022). Perone, James E. Listen to soul!: exploring a musical genre.. Choice. 59(5), 1. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Issiyeva, Adalyat. Representing Russia's Orient: from ethnography to art song. Oxford, 2020 (c2021).. Choice. 59(3), .
Arnold, D. M. (2021). November, Nancy. Performing history: approaches to history across musicology. Academic Studies Press, 2020.. Choice. 59(3), .
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Rethinking Prokofiev, ed. by Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier. Oxford, 2020.. Choice. 58(12), .
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Snodgrass, Jennifer. Teaching music theory: new voices and approaches. Oxford, 2020.. Choice. 58(9), .
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Vander Wel, Stephanie. Hillbilly maidens, Okies, and cowgirls: women's country music, 1930–1960. Illinois, 2020.. Choice. 58(9), .
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Bayne, Pauline Shaw. A guide to library research in music, by Pauline Shaw Bayne and Edward Komara. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.. Choice. 58(9), .
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Messing, Scott. Self-quotation in Schubert: "Ave Maria," the Second Piano Trio, and other works. Rochester, 2020.. Choice. 58(5), .
Arnold, D. M. (2020). Gioia, Ted. Music: a subversive history. Basic Books, 2019.. Choice. 58(20), .
Arnold, D. M. (2020). Crossley, Nick. Connecting sounds: the social life of music. Manchester University Press, 2020.. Choice. 58(2), .
Arnold, D. M. (2020). Schreiber, Brad. Music is power: popular songs, social justice, and the will to change. Rutgers, 2019 (c2020).. Choice. 57(11), .
Arnold, D. M. (2020). Weissman, Dick. A new history of American and Canadian folk music. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.. Choice. 57(6), .
Arnold, D. M. (2020). Yearsley, David Gaynor. Sex, death & minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and her musical notebooks. Chicago, 2019.. Choice. 57(5), .
Arnold, D. M. (2019). Lasser, Michael. City songs and American life, 1900–1950. Rochester, 2019.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2019). Perone, James E. Listen to pop!: exploring a musical genre. Greenwood, 2018.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2019). Field recordings of black singers and musicians: an annotated discography of artists from West Africa, the Caribbean and the eastern and southern United States, 1901–1943, comp. by Craig Martin Gibbs. McFarland, 2018.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2019). Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass generation: a memoir. Illinois, 2018.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2018). Ward, Brian, and Patrick Huber. A & R pioneers: architects of American roots music on record. Vanderbilt, 2018.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2018). Melamed, Daniel R. Listening to Bach: the Mass in B minor and the Christmas oratorio. Oxford, 2018.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2018). Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and rock from Dylan to U2, ed. by James Rovira. Lexington Books, 2018.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2018). Doll, Christopher. Hearing harmony: toward a tonal theory for the rock era. Michigan, 2017.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2018). Beach, David. Schubert's mature instrumental music: a theorist's perspective. Rochester, 2017.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2018). Shrock, Dennis. Choral monuments: studies of eleven choral masterworks. Oxford, 2017..
Arnold, D. M. (2018). The Oxford handbook of country music, ed. by Travis D. Stimeling. Oxford, 2017.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Massimo, Richard. I got a song: a history of the Newport Folk Festival. Wesleyan, 2017.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Bradley, Adam. The poetry of pop. Yale, 2017.. Choice.
Arnold, D. M. (2017). McCarron, Andrew. Light come shining: the transformations of Bob Dylan. Oxford, 2017..
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Cohen, Ronald D. Depression folk: grassroots music and left-wing politics in 1930s America. North Carolina, 2016..
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Rathey, Markus. Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas oratorio: music, theology, culture. Oxford, 2016..
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Rethinking Schubert, ed. by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton. Oxford, 2016..
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Marissen, Michael. Bach & God. Oxford, 2016..
Arnold, D. M. (2017). Shute, Benjamin. Sei solo: symbolum?: the theology of J. S. Bach's solo violin works. Pickwick Publications, 2016..
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Cornfield, Daniel B. Beyond the beat: musicians building community in Nashville. Princeton, 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Halliwell, Martin. Neil Young: American traveller. Reaktion Books, 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Leary, James P. Folksongs of another America: field recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Lewin, David. David Lewin's Morgengruss: text, context, commentary, ed. by David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn. Oxford, 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Nunn, Erich. Sounding the color line: music and race in the southern imagination. Georgia, 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Perlman, Ken. Couldn't have a wedding without the fiddler: the story of traditional fiddling on Prince Edward Island. Tennessee, 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Tatlow, Ruth. Bach's numbers: compositional proportion and significance. Cambridge, 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Wald, Elijah. Dylan goes electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the sixties. Dey St., 2015.. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). Marissen, Michael. Bach & God. Oxford, 2016..
Arnold, D. M. (2015). Freeman, Robert. The crisis of classical music in America: lessons from a life in the education of musicians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. ISBN 9781442233010 Gingerich, John M. Schubert's Beethoven project. Cambridge, 2014. ISBN 9780521650878 Cohen, Ronald D. and Rachel Clare Donaldson. Roots of the revival: American and British folk music in the 1950s. Illinois, 2014. ISBN 9780252038518 Messing, Scott. Marching to the canon: the life of Schubert's Marche militaire. Rochester, 2014. ISBN Murphy, Clifford R. Yankee twang: country and western music in New England. Illinois, 2014. ISBN 9780252038679 Johnson, Graham. Franz Schubert: the complete songs. German texts tr. by Richard Wigmore. Yale, 2014. 3v. ISBN 9780300112672 Bostridge, Ian. Schubert's Winter journey: anatomy of an obsession. Knopf, 2015. ISBN 9780307961631. Choice Magazine.
Arnold, D. M. (2014). 7 book reviews published, 2013-2014 8 book reviews published, 2012-2013 7 book reviews published, 2011-2012. Choice Magazine.
Encyclopedia Article
Arnold, D. M. (2019). Jaroff, Serge, 1896-1985. Grove Music Online.
Journal Article
Arnold, D. M. (2022). A World Famous, Yet Unknown Countertenor: Basile Bolotine of Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir. Journal of Singing. 78(4), 6. Jacksonville, FL: National Association of Teachers of Sining. https://www.nats.org/cgi/page.cgi/about_journal_singing.html
Arnold, D. M. (2020). The Refugees Who Took the World by Storm: Serge Jaroff and His Don Cossack Choir. 9(1), 19-40. https://ncco-usa.org/publications/the-choral-scholar-american-choral-review/issues/20
Arnold, D. (2017). Schoenberg's punk rocker: the radical transformations of Dika Newlin.
Arnold, D. M. (2016). A Treasure Trove from Radio’s Bygone Days: The WFAA and WBAP Sheet-Music Collections at the University of North Texas Music Library. Other. 73(1), 22-32. Music Library Association. https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/Notes
Arnold, D. M. (2015). Evolving Not Extinct: Music Reference in the 21st Century. 56(2), 146-150. Taylor & Francis Online. http://www.tandfonline.com/
Newsletter
Arnold, D. M. (2021). Reference Sources Spotlight: the Portal to Texas History. Music Library Association blog. http://blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/13488-2/
Arnold, D. M. (2019). Reference Sources Spotlight: theeuropeanlibrary.org. Music Library Association News blog. http://blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/reference-sources-spotlight-theeuropeanlibrary-org/

Presentations Given

Oral Presentation

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association, Picture This: the University of North Texas Library Through the Years, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2023 – ).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association annual conference, The Research Excursion of a Lifetime: How Serge Jaroff's Choir of Don Cossack Refugees Burnished My Reference Arsenal, Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association, Baylor University and virtual, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), TMLA/NEMLA/Mid-Atlantic chapter joint meeting [Music Library Association], We Cosset Our Special Collections: But Who Cares?, Texas Music Library Association, New England Music Library Association, Mid-Atlantic Music Library Association, virtual, United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Texas Chapter, Music Library Association, A Belgian Hero, a Russian Outlaw, and the Perils of Scholarly Transformation, Texas Chapter, Music Library Association, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Texas Chapter, Music Library Association, "Serge Jaroff and His Don Cossack Choir: Two Rare Scores in the University of North Texas Music Library", Texas Chapter, Music Library Association, University of Texas, Austin, United States of America. (2015).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Evans, B. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Music Library Association, "Talkin' to Texans and Other Americans: Music Oral History Project Perspectives: TMLA and its Oral History Project”, Music Library Association, Oral History Committee, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2012 – 2012).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Music Library Association, "Jazz Collections and Performance Practice at UNT: WFAA and WBAP Collections at the University of North Texas Music Library”, Music Library Association, United States of America. (2012).

Panel Presentation

Arnold, D. M. (Panelist), Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association, Public Services Town Hall meeting, Music Library Association, virtual, United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Feustle, M. (Panelist), Arnold, D. M. (Panelist), Jocoy, S. (Panelist), Whealton, V. (Panelist), Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association / Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, It Slices, It Dices, It Juliennes: The Versatile Toolkit of Combined Musicological and Librarian Skills, TMLA / AMS-SW, Zoom, United States of America. (2020 – 2020).

Paper

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Texas Chapter, Music Library Association, "Schoenberg's Punk Rocker: the Radical Transformations of Dika Newlin", Texas Chapter, Music Library Association, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2014).

Poster

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), spring conference, Southwest Chapter, American Musicological Society, "Serge Jaroff and the Don Cossack Choir: the State of Research in the 21st Century", American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2015).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Hartsock, R. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Music Library Association, “Thinking outside the box: finding publishing opportunities in unexpected places", Music Library Association, Atlanta, GA, United States of America. (2014).

Professional Meeting Contribution

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Annual Conference, Music Library Association, Traditional and Electronic Resources in Music Research, Music Library Association, Portland, OR, United States of America. (2018).

Arnold, D. M. (Author & Presenter), Annual conference, Music Library Association, Reference and research tools for Latin American music : Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: an encyclopedic history by Malena Kuss, Music Library Association, Orlando, FL, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, UNT Libraries Scholarship and Awards Committee. (September 9, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Circulation Workgroup. (2005 – Present).

Committee Member, University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. (2015 – 2022).

Faculty Mentor, library mentoring program. (September 2016 – August 2017).

Committee Member, Scholarly Communication Transformation Workgroup. (2014 – July 2017).

Committee Member, Search Committee for copyright librarian. (December 2016 – May 2017).

Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (2010 – 2012).

Member, Oversight Committee for the Core Curriculum. (2004 – 2010).

Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (2006 – 2008).

Professional Service

Committee Member, Music Library Association Nominating Committee. (March 7, 2023 – Present).

Board of Advisors, Krum Public Library, Krum, TX. (2001 – Present).

Editorial Review Board Member, Music Reference Services Quarterly [journal]. (2000 – Present).

Committee Member, Music Library Association Public Services Committee. (February 2018 – March 2022).

Committee Chair, Music Library Association Reference Souces Subcommittee. (February 2018 – March 2022).

Public Service

Other, Krum Public Library. (2001 – Present).