Biography:

Musician; Professor of music; collector of folksongs. Born– August 15, 1901, Vancouver, Washington. Parents– Horace Wade and Marguerite Jaggy Arnold.  Married–Flossie E. Hagebusch, 1962. Education– Willamette University, B.A., 1924; Eastman School of Music. Faculty member of the University of Alabama, 1938-1949; University of Southern California after 1950. Best known for his work in collecting folksongs of Alabama;  travelled around the state gathering recordings and texts of folksongs of many types.  Died  December 25, 1971.

Source:

Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 6th ed.

“Introduction” to An Alabama Songbook.  University of Alabama Press, 2004.

Composer:

Five Incapacitated Preludes (A Symphonic Suite).

Three Fantasticisms (for orchestra).

Compiler:

An Alabama Songbook:  Ballads, folksongs, and spirituals collected by Byron Arnold.  Ed. by Robert W. Halli, Jr.  University of Alabama Press, 2004.

Folk Songs of Alabama. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1950.

Papers:

Arnold’s collection of Alabama folksongs (recordings and papers) is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.