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Donna M. Arnold

Title: Associate Librarian

Department: Library - SL - Music Library

College: University of North Texas

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

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

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

No previous courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

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. (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/
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    • The course as a whole was
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    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
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