Dr. William P. Latham Collection, 1938-2002

By Maristella Feustle

Collection Overview

Title:	Dr. William P. Latham Collection, 1938-2002
ID:	06/ 040
Primary Creator:	Latham, William P.
Extent:	50.0 Boxes
Subjects:	Composition (Music) University of North Texas. College of Music
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
Finding Aid Revision History:	Documents added 4/3/2017. Finding aid expanded 10/2020.

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Box and Folder Listing
Series 1: Orchestral works Series 2: Works for band Series 3: Works for soloist with orchestra or band Series 4: Works for chorus and orchestra Series 5: Documents Series 6: Works for chorus with band Series 7: Works for chorus a cappella or with keyboard/small ensemble accompaniment Series 8: North Texas Composers Archive masters All

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Series 1: Orchestral works
- Box 1 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723373
  - Folder 1: American Youth Performs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Condensed score, sketches in pencil.
  - Folder 2: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Full score, spiral comb-bound.
  - Folder 3: American Youth Performs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Parts - ozalid copies.
  - Folder 4: American Youth Performs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Extra copies of violin parts - ozalids.
  - Folder 5: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Full score - master copy - ozalid transparency.
  - Folder 6: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Spiral comb-bound score - ozalid.
  - Folder 7: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Second spiral-comb-bound copy of full score.
  - Folder 8: Overture [renamed from American Youth Performs] Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Spiral comb-bound ozalid score.
- Box 2 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723374
  - Folder 1: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Parts - master copies - ozalids.
  - Folder 2: American Youth Performs: Photos, 1969 August 25 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    "St. Moritz and setting of Orchestra Festival." 8 photos. 7 color, 1 black and white.
  - Folder 3: American Youth Performs: Correspondence, 1969-1977 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 4: American Youth Performs: Concert program, 1969 August 18-30 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Official programs for the International Festival of Youth Orchestras (St. Moritz, Switzerland), with a press release and orchestra roster.
  - Folder 5: American Youth Performs: Programs from other performances, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth, Grand Prairie High School Chorale, March 2; Knoxville, TN, December 2. Includes programs, press notices, presentation speech.
  - Folder 6: And Thou America, 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Parts, manuscript. Original envelope containing information on instrumentation included.
  - Folder 7: And Thou America, 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Parts - ozalid copies.
- Box 3 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723375
  - Folder 1: Excelsior K-2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Parts, folded, not in score order. Includes note: "XC reduction 92% N.G. use 90 %."
  - Folder 2: Excelsior K-2, concert programs, 1994 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Three copies of concert programs including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra performance (John Giordano, conductor) at Landreth Auditorium, Texas Christian University, September 13, 1994.
  - Folder 3: Homemade card on occasion of Excelsior K-2 premiere Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 4: Copies of a profile of Latham and a review of Excelsior K-2 in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1994 September 5, 14 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 5: Correspondence related to the promotion and performance of Excelsior K-2, 1994-1996 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 6: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Sketches and first draft Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Cites material from Alan Lomax' Cowboy Songs, p. 250.
- Box 4 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723376
  - Folder 1: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Sketch in pencil Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 2: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Parts, masters Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Ozalid copies of manuscript.
  - Folder 3: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Manuscript parts, 1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    "Percussion missing."
  - Folder 4: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Published score and parts, 1984 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Shawnee Press, Delaware Water Gap, PA.
- Box 5 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723377
  - Folder 1: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Correspondence with Sherman (TX) Symphony, premiere program, press notices, 1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Premiered November 4, 1978 by the Sherman Symphony. Enclosed document explains that the work was written in honor of the Sherman Symphony's thirteen years, and fifty performances up to that point.
  - Folder 2: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Published score and miniature score, 1984 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Shawnee Press, Delaware Water Gap, PA.
  - Folder 3: Lady of Shalott: Two manuscript scores, 1939 November 5; 1939 December Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 4: Lady of Shalott: Parts and photonegatives Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Instrumentation list on brown paper wrapper.
  - Folder 5: Lady of Shalott: Newspaper clippings and concert program, 1941 March Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Eugene Goosens, March 7-8, 1941.
- Box 6 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723378
  - Folder 1: A Modern Trilogy: Sketches Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 2: A Modern Trilogy: Ballet, piano sketches Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 3: A Modern Trilogy: Byzantine Dance, score in pencil, 1938 May 14 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 4: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, string parts - masters, 1941 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Ozalid transparencies.
  - Folder 5: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, string parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Inventory on brown paper wrapper.
- Box 7 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723379
  - Folder 1: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, Wind, percussion parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Package still sealed. Inventory on front cover.
  - Folder 2: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, program, 1942 February 8 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Performance by Cincinnati Dance Guild at Ohio University
  - Folder 3: Suggestions for Orchestra, score in C, 1939 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Manuscript, in ink.
  - Folder 4: Suggestions for Orchestra, parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Package still sealed; page with inventory taped on front.
- Box 8 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723380
  - Folder 1: Symphony No. 1, short score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    In pencil.
  - Folder 2: Symphony No. 1, Fugue ("first movement") arranged for piano, four hands Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 3: Symphony No. 1, first movement, score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    In pencil.
  - Folder 4: Symphony No. 1, second movement, score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    In pencil.
  - Folder 5: Symphony No. 1, third movement, score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    In pencil.
  - Folder 6: Symphony No. 1, ozalid master of score, 1950 August 1 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Title page of first copy: "to fulfill the thesis requirements for the degree [of] Doctor of Philosophy, department of composition, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester."
  - Folder 7: Symphony No. 1, ozalid masters of parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 8: Symphony No. 1, full score, 1950 August 1 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Two spiral-bound ozalid copies. Title page of first copy: "to fulfill the thesis requirements for the degree [of] Doctor of Philosophy, department of composition, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester."
- Box 9 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723381
  - Folder 1: Symphony No. 1, parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Package still sealed. Inventory of parts on paper taped to front.
  - Folder 2: Symphony No. 1, programs and analysis (thesis outline), 1950 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    File includes two programs from performance at Eastman on April 25, 27 1950.
  - Folder 3: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), sketch Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    In pencil. Originally title "Symphony No. 2" later changed to "Sinfonietta."
  - Folder 4: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), ozalid master of full score, 1953 August 2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
- Box 10 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723382
  - Folder 1: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), full score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Copy from ozalid.
  - Folder 2: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), ozalid masters of parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 3: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), parts, violins and violas Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 4: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), parts, cello and bass Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 5: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), parts, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, timpani Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 6: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), second set of parts, violins and violas Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
- Box 11 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723383
  - Folder 1: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), second set of parts, cello bass, woodwinds, horns, trumpets Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 2: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), third set of parts, complete Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 3: Symphony No. 2, three spiral-bound copies of score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
- Box 12 Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 723384
  - Folder 1: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), score, "examination copies" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Two spiral-bound copies
  - Folder 2: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), correspondence, programs, press notices Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Note on file: "See also files for Fest TX Composers 67, 67-88, 91 and pub. file, Theodore Presser."
- Box 13: Oversized items Request Reading Room Access
  
  Barcode: 726435
  - Folder 1: And Thou, America, master ozalid for full score; string parts, programs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Score dated June, 1947
  - Folder 2: And Thou, America, full score, spiral-bound ozalid copy, 1947 June Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Includes insert detailing part corrections.
  - Folder 3: And Thou, America, full score, second spiral-bound ozalid copy, 1947 June Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 4: Excelsior K-2, sketches, letter from John Giordano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 5: Excelsior K-2, first complete rough draft, 1994 April 7 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    In pencil.
  - Folder 6: Excelsior K-2, original manuscript master, 1994 May 2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  - Folder 7: Excelsior K-2, parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    2 pages per 11" x 17" sheet, not folded.
  - Folder 8: Jubilee 13/50, master ozalid for full score, 1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Commissioned by the Sherman Symphony Orchestra.
  - Folder 9: Jubilee 13/50, full score, ozalid copy, 1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Prepared for plastic-comb binding, but not bound.
  - Folder 10: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, full manuscript score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
    
    Plastic comb-bound.

Dr. William P. Latham Collection, 1938-2002

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Series 1: Orchestral works

Box 1 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: American Youth Performs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: American Youth Performs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: American Youth Performs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 5: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 6: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 7: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 8: Overture [renamed from American Youth Performs] Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 2 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: American Youth Performs, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: American Youth Performs: Photos, 1969 August 25 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: American Youth Performs: Correspondence, 1969-1977 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: American Youth Performs: Concert program, 1969 August 18-30 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 5: American Youth Performs: Programs from other performances, 1969 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 6: And Thou America, 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 7: And Thou America, 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 3 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: Excelsior K-2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: Excelsior K-2, concert programs, 1994 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: Homemade card on occasion of Excelsior K-2 premiere Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: Copies of a profile of Latham and a review of Excelsior K-2 in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1994 September 5, 14 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 5: Correspondence related to the promotion and performance of Excelsior K-2, 1994-1996 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 6: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Sketches and first draft Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 4 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Sketch in pencil Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Parts, masters Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Manuscript parts, 1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Published score and parts, 1984 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 5 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Correspondence with Sherman (TX) Symphony, premiere program, press notices, 1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: Jubilee Thirteen-Fifty: Published score and miniature score, 1984 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: Lady of Shalott: Two manuscript scores, 1939 November 5; 1939 December Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: Lady of Shalott: Parts and photonegatives Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 5: Lady of Shalott: Newspaper clippings and concert program, 1941 March Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 6 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: A Modern Trilogy: Sketches Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: A Modern Trilogy: Ballet, piano sketches Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: A Modern Trilogy: Byzantine Dance, score in pencil, 1938 May 14 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, string parts - masters, 1941 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 5: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, string parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 7 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, Wind, percussion parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: A Modern Trilogy: Waltz, program, 1942 February 8 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: Suggestions for Orchestra, score in C, 1939 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: Suggestions for Orchestra, parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 8 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: Symphony No. 1, short score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: Symphony No. 1, Fugue ("first movement") arranged for piano, four hands Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: Symphony No. 1, first movement, score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: Symphony No. 1, second movement, score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 5: Symphony No. 1, third movement, score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 6: Symphony No. 1, ozalid master of score, 1950 August 1 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 7: Symphony No. 1, ozalid masters of parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 8: Symphony No. 1, full score, 1950 August 1 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 9 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: Symphony No. 1, parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 2: Symphony No. 1, programs and analysis (thesis outline), 1950 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 3: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), sketch Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Folder 4: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), ozalid master of full score, 1953 August 2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Box 10 Request Reading Room Access

Folder 1: Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonietta), full score Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services