{"id":686,"date":"2011-11-11T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=686"},"modified":"2016-10-11T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:10:42","slug":"arnold-byron-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"ARNOLD, BYRON, 1901-1971."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician; Professor of music; collector of folksongs. Born&#8211; August 15, 1901, Vancouver, Washington. Parents&#8211; Horace Wade and Marguerite Jaggy Arnold.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Flossie E. Hagebusch, 1962. Education&#8211; Willamette University, B.A., 1924; Eastman School of Music. Faculty member of the University of Alabama, 1938-1949; University of Southern California after 1950.\u00a0Best known for his work in collecting folksongs of Alabama;\u00a0 travelled around the state gathering recordings and texts of folksongs of many types.\u00a0 Died\u00a0 December 25, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baker&#8217;s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 6th ed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Introduction&#8221; to An Alabama Songbook.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Composer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five Incapacitated Preludes (A Symphonic Suite).<\/p>\n<p>Three Fantasticisms (for orchestra).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Alabama Songbook:\u00a0 Ballads, folksongs, and spirituals collected by Byron Arnold.\u00a0 Ed. by Robert W. Halli, Jr.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Folk Songs of Alabama. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1950.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arnold&#8217;s collection of Alabama folksongs (recordings and papers)\u00a0is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Musician; Professor of music; collector of folksongs. Born&#8211; August 15, 1901, Vancouver, Washington. Parents&#8211; Horace Wade and Marguerite Jaggy Arnold.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Flossie E. Hagebusch, 1962. Education&#8211; Willamette University, B.A., 1924; Eastman School of Music. Faculty member of the University of Alabama, 1938-1949; University of Southern California after 1950.\u00a0Best known for his work in collecting folksongs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}