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Dr. Donna M. Arnold

Associate Librarian

University of North Texas

Department of Library - SL - Music Library

(940) 565-2860

Email: donna.arnold@unt.edu

Education

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

Professional Positions

    Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Librarian III/Associate Librarian, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2004 - Present).
  • Librarian II, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (1997 - 2004).
  • Librarian I, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (1995 - 1997).

Professional Memberships

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

  • Donna Arnold et al. (2005). The Best Books for Academic Libraries, Volume 9, Music & fine arts, rev. ed..
  • Donna M Arnold; Lisa Blankenship; Richard Griscom; et al. (2003). The Best Books for Academic Libraries, Volume 9, Music & fine arts.

    • Book Review

  • Arnold, D.M. (2024). Dietrich, Kurt. Never givin' up: the life and music of Al Jarreau.. Choice. 61 (11) Chicago, IL, Association of Research Libraries. https://www.choiceconnect.org/review/magprint/235014
  • Arnold, D.M. (2024). Mueller, Darren. At the vanguard of vinyl: a cultural history of the long-playing record in jazz.. Choice. 62 (2) 1. Chicago, IL, Association of Research Libraries. https://www.choiceconnect.org/review/magprint/235904
  • Arnold, D.M. (2024). Olwage, Grant. Paul Robeson's voices. Oxford, 2023.. Choice. 61 (9) Chicago, IL, Association of Research Libraries. https://www.choiceconnect.org/review/magprint/234684
  • Arnold, D.M. (2024). Tomita, Fumi. Early jazz: a concise introduction, from its beginnings through 1929.. Choice. Chicago, IL, Association of Research Libraries. https://www.choiceconnect.org/review/magprint/235568
  • 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
  • Donna Arnold. (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, Personnel Affairs Committee. (October 16, 2024 - Present).
  • 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).

Public Service

  • Other (member, Advisory Board), Krum Public Library. (2001 - Present).

Professional Service

  • Committee Member, Music Library Association Nominating Committee. (March 7, 2023 - Present).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Music Reference Services Quarterly [journal]. (2000 - Present).
  • Board of Advisors, Krum Public Library. Krum, TX. (2001 - 2022).
  • Committee Member, Music Library Association Public Services Committee. (February 2018 - March 2022).
  • Committee Chair, Music Library Association Reference Sources Subcommittee. (February 2018 - March 2022).