William and Gayle Cook Music Library
William and Gayle Cook Music Library
Published scores comprise the bulk of the collection. Most are miniature scores, but there are a number of full scores and organ scores as well. Of special interest is a volume of the Bach-Gesellschaft collected edition (Folder #17). This volume containing Cantatas 41-50 may be from the original printing. Nearly every score has some analytical annotations. Many contain extensive analysis and some performance indications.
A few of the folders contain published monographs. For instance, Folder #1a is Donald Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis, Volume 5. Professor Herford's marginal notes provide clues to his views on the contents. Also of interest is a facsimilie copy of Bach's Sonaten und Partiten für Violine, BWV 1001-1006 (Folder 128).
Of most interest and of most importance, however, are the more than 100 folders of personal papers. Many contain handwritten lecture notes for courses Professor Herford taught, for television lectures, or for invited lectures. There are also copies of a few of the articles for publication in the Bach Quarterly, along with correspondence with Elinore Barber, Editor. Several student papers from Union Theological Seminary's School of Sacred Music, Westminster Choir College, and Indiana University also appear in the collection. Other course-related materials include a few notebooks containing course outlines, notes about student papers, and notes from master classes.
Of special interest to scholars of Professor Herford's analytical techniques are three papers in which Prof. Herford discusses his process of analysis (Lecture from May 8, 1976, Folder #27), an essay on score study and the importance of musicological research for performance practice (Folder #68), and notes on analysis ("Analysis of Choral Masterpieces: Notes taken from a course given by Julius Herford (1958)", Folder #87).