Dr. William P. Latham Collection, 1938-2002
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- Biographical Note
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- Detailed Description
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Collection Overview
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Dr. William P. Latham Collection, 1938-2002![]() |
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ID: | 06/ 040 |
Primary Creator: | Latham, William P. |
Extent: | 50.0 Boxes |
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Languages: | English |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of about 50 boxes of Latham's compositions and papers.Biographical Note
William Peters Latham was born on January 14, 1917 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Census data shows the family had relocated to Cincinnati by 1920, and to Wilmore, Kentucky by 1930, and Latham's papers reference his childhood in Kentucky. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and master’s degree from College of Music in Cincinnati, which later merged to become the College-Conservatory of Music. Latham studied under Eugène Goossens while at the College of Music, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performed Latham's tone poem The Lady of Shalott under Goosens' direction. Latham briefly served as instructor of woodwind and brass instruments at the North Texas State Teachers College, now the University of North Texas, in 1938 and 1939.
Latham enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, serving in the 10th Cavalry Band and as an infantry platoon leader during the Second World War, receiving a Purple Heart. After his military service, he taught at Eastern Illinois University, and married his wife, Joan Seyler Latham, a composer who also earned a master's degree from the Cincinnati College of Music, in 1946.
From 1946 until 1965, Latham taught at Iowa State Teachers’ College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, which is now the University of Northern Iowa. He completed a PhD in music composition from Eastman School of Music in 1951, studying under Howard Hanson and Herbert Elwell.
In 1965, Latham joined the North Texas music faculty as professor of music and coordinator of composition, became Director of Graduate Studies in Music in 1969. In 1978, he became one of only eight faculty members at that point to achieve the rank of Distinguished Professor of Music. He retired in 1984 and received the title of Professor Emeritus, but remained active as a composer. William P. Latham died in Denton on February 24, 2004.
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Repository: | Music Library |
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Box and Folder ListingSeries 1: Orchestral worksSeries 2: Works for bandSeries 3: Works for soloist with orchestra or bandSeries 4: Works for chorus and orchestraSeries 5: DocumentsSeries 6: Works for chorus with bandSeries 7: Works for chorus a cappella or with keyboard/small ensemble accompanimentSeries 8: North Texas Composers Archive mastersAll
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Series 3: Works for soloist with orchestra or band
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Box 1
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Barcode: 726411-
Folder 1: Andante and Allegro, 1962
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"2 mvts. oboe sonata - transcribed by the composer for oboe solo and wind ensemble."
"Published by Jack Spratt, 1966."
Manuscript score, sketch.
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Folder 2: Andante and Allegro, 1962
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Folder 3: Birthday Salute, sketch, orginal score, copy, originals (in pencil) of parts and copies, vocal score, synthesizer part (2 copies), 1990
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"Arr. Happy Birthday."
Synthesizer part is a reduction of string parts.
"Used following 'Sacred Flame'."
Dated 1990 on envelope; score dated April 27, 1991 and inscribed to Joan.
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Folder 4: [Birthday Salute] Here's to You, Charlie, sketch, full score (original and copy), parts, synthesizer (reduction of strings), vocal score, 8.5 x 11" reduction masters, file of related papers, 1992
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"For Charles Mattheson's 80th birthday, used with Birthday Salute." Written to precede Birthday Salute.
Filed in its original order with Birthday Salute.
"C.f. trip file."
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Folder 5: Concertino for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, condensed score and sketches, 1968 November 29
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"For John Giordano."
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Box 2
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Folder 1: Concertino for E-flat Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, full score (marked "uncorrected") and parts, 1968 December 12
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Labeled "K912" from filing system at the University of Northern Iowa. -
Folder 2: Concertino for E-flat Alto Saxophone and Full Orchestra, full score, 1969 July
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"For John Giordano." Two ozalid copies in separate plastic comb binding.
"Scored for wind ensemble, Dec. 1968; re-scored for full orchestra July 1969."
Copyright assigned to Dorn Publications, Inc., Needham, MA, in 1982.
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Folder 3: Concertino for E-Flat Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, solo part, 4 copies, 1968
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Folder 4: Concertino for E-Flat Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, set of parts with list
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Box 3
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Folder 1: Concertino for E-flat Alto Saxophone and Full Orchestra, set of parts
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"Complete set." -
Folder 2: Concertino, two percussion parts
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Folder 3: Concerto Grosso for Soprano and Alto Saxophone with Wind Ensemble, sketches and [performers'] saxophone ranges, 1960
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Folder 4: Concerto Grosso for Soprano and Alto Saxophone with Wind Ensemble, full score
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Two plastic comb-bound copies. "For Karin and Sigurd Rascher."
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Box 4
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Folder 1: Concerto Grosso for 2 Saxophones and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, full score, 1960 October 1
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"Copy #3," plastic comb-bound. -
Folder 2: Concerto Grosso for 2 Saxophones and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, condensed score, 1960 August 16
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Folder 3: Concerto Grosso for Soprano and Alto Saxophone with Wind Ensemble, solo parts, 2 copies, 1960
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"Transcribed for orchestra, 1962." Both saxophone parts on same score. Ozalid copies. -
Folder 4: Concerto Grosso for Soprano and Alto Saxophone with Wind Ensemble, set of parts, complete
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Box 5
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Folder 1: Concerto Grosso for 2 Saxophones and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, set of parts, complete
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Folder 2: Concerto Grosso for 2 Saxophones and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, set of parts, complete
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Folder 3: Concerto Grosso, transcribed for orchestra, parts, 1962
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"Missing French horn I, trombone I, timpani (use band part)." "Full score (orch.) is available from Dorn Publications, Inc." -
Folder 4: Concerto Grosso for Two Saxophones and Chamber Orchestra, concert program, 1963 July 2
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Composed for and performed by Karin and Sigurd Rascher.
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Box 6
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Folder 1: Fantasy Concerto for Flute and Strings, original manuscript score, parts ("old copies), 1941
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Folder 2: Fantasy Concerto, piano reduction, 1950
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For flute and piano, 2 copies with score and flute part. Composed in 1941, published by Jack Spratt Music Co. (Old Greenwich, CT) in 1950. -
Folder 3: Fantasy Concerto for Flute and Strings, correspondence, programs, press notices, 1941
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Folder 4: Fantasy for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble, sketches, 1969
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Folder 5: Fantasy for B-flat Trumpet Solo and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, condensed score.
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"For John Haynie." Manuscript score in pencil. -
Folder 6: Fantasy for B-flat Trumpet Solo with Band Accompaniment, solo part and full score, 1969
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Folder 7: Trumpet Fantasy [Fantasy for Trumpet], correspondence, programs, press notices
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Box 7
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Folder 1: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, condensed score and programs, 1946
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"Short score," manuscript in ink in spiral manuscript paper notebook. -
Folder 2: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, parts, 1946
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Folder 3: Lenten Letter, first sketches, program notes, text sources
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Text by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Patricia Blake. Dedicated to Jeannine Crader. -
Folder 4: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, full score
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Labeled with the pseudonym "Wilhelm von der Vogelweide" (allusion to Walter von der Vogelweide). Landscape orientation. -
Folder 5: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, full score
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"Copy 1." Landscape format. -
Folder 6: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, full score
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Two copies, portrait orientation in plastic comb binding. -
Folder 7: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, full score
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Corrections to title page in blue pencil. Portrait orientation.
Loose, blank page of landscape-oriented score included in file.
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Folder 8: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, condensed score
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Original in pencil and two copies.
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Box 8
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Folder 1: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, full score, re-copied masters, 1983 August
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Folder 2: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, orchestral parts: strings, percussion (complete set)
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Folder 3: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, "old score and parts"
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Folder 4: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings, and Percussion, correspondence, programs, press notices, text clearance
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Folder 5: River to the Sea for Baritone and Orchestra, 1942 January 3
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Full score, vocal score, parts, photostatic negatives, text (by Merrick Fifield McCarthy), program, press notices. -
Folder 6: The Sacred Flame, first sketches
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In four sections.
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Box 9
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Folder 1: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, "orchestral piano part (electronic keyboard)"
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"For Joan."
Two copies in plastic comb binding. Piano reduction for electronic keyboard simulating orchestral instruments, noted on one copy. The other copy is indicated to be a piano reduction for rehearsal only.
Texts by Mary Coleridge, Thomas Moore, and William P. Latham
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Folder 2: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, original piano reduction
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Manuscript in pencil. Estimated duration of each of the four sections of the work taped to envelope. -
Folder 3: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, set of parts with list
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Folder 4: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, parts, originals and "reduction masters"
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Folder 5: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, assorted papers
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Box 10
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Folder 1: Sisyphus 1971, orchestral part masters and duplicates
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Folder 2: Sisyphus 1971, orchestral part copies
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Folder 3: Sisyphus 1971, programs and explanation of Sisyphus' legend
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Folder 4: Suite for Trumpet and String Orchestra, score and parts, 1951
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Ozalid copies of manuscript score and parts. Two copies of score. -
Folder 5: Suite for Trumpet and String Orchestra, transcribed for "chamber band," score and programs, 1958
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Manuscript original score in pencil, in plastic comb binding; ozalid copy. -
Folder 6: Suite for Trumpet and String Orchestra, transcribed for "chamber band," parts
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Folder 7: Suite for Trumpet and String Orchestra, correspondence, programs (orchestral version), press notices
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"More correspondence in Presser file. See also under [Series 8], Instrumental Chamber Music."
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Box 11: Oversized items
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Folder 1: Fantasy Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra, full score, 1941
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Plastic comb-bound ozalid copy with annotations and corrections in pencil. -
Folder 2: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, full score
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2 copies, spiral-bound ozalid copies. Copy 1 has additional markings in pink-colored pencil. -
Folder 3: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, ozalid masters of full score and string parts
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Extra sheet with corrections included with score. -
Folder 4: A Lenten Letter: Solo Cantata for Dramatic Soprano, Strings and Percussion, full score, 1974 March 24
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"For Jeannine Crader." "Text adapted from Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other sources." Plastic comb-bound copy of ozalid. -
Folder 5: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, full score, original ("first draft"), 1990
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Title from poem "Love" by Thomas Moore. "For Joan, on her 70th birthday (April 27, 1991), and our 45th wedding anniversary (April 18 1991)." -
Folder 6: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and orchestra, full score, copy, 1990
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Plastic comb-bound. Annotations in pencil and red ink. -
Folder 7: The Sacred Flame: Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra, reduced-size masters of piano reduction
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Photocopies, two pages of music per 11 x 17-inch sheet. -
Folder 8: Sisyphus 1971: full score, ozalid masters in pencil
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For also saxophone, string orchestra, and electric piano, "à François Daneels." Copyrighted by Gérard Billaudot, Paris. -
Folder 9: Sisyphus 1971, full score, ozalid copy in plastic comb binding
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