Herbert also composed a considerable body of smaller-scale works, often writing music for his own performance on the cello or producing individual songs for the Victor Herbert Orchestra. He published some of his dance music compositions under the pseudonym Noble MacClure. During the last decade of his life, he composed a number of overtures for feature films, although "The Fall of a Nation" was his only complete film score. On February 12, 1924, Herbert was one of the featured composers at New York's Aeolian Hall, in an evening entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music" that included the world premiere of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" by the Paul Whiteman orchestra. Herbert's contribution for the evening, "A Suite of Serenades", was his last work to premiere with him in attendance.