AMERICAN
VERSE & VESTIGE
A Series of Art Songs & Vocal Chamber Music
Celebrating America's Enduring Poets & Cultural Essence
Music by Jeremiah Evans
J. Evans Music Press
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AMERICAN VERSE & VESTIGE is a series of over 60 art songs and vocal chamber music settings featuring classic American poetry. The songs aim to celebrate the American experience by bridging together our past and present. At a time when our country is divided and fraught with discourse, these songs add context to our cultural journey and encourage a deeper appreciation for our national identity and the evolution of our American story.
The chronology of poets included in the collection represents 225 years of lived American history (Colonial America through the 20th century, 1748-1973). These songs feature the poetry of historically significant American poets whose words explore the intimate expressions, diverse experiences, and characteristic observances of bygone generations.
17 ART SONGS
For Medium-High Voice & Piano
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CONTENTS:
An Hymn to the Evening
(Phillis Wheatley)
April Rain Song
(Langston Hughes)
Belle Gunness
(Anonymous)
Central Park at Dusk
(Sara Teasdale)
Departing Summer
(George Moses Horton)
Eldorado
(Edgar Allan Poe)
Four Epitaphs
(Countee Cullen)
1. For my Grandmother
2. For John Keats
3. For Paul Laurence Dunbar
4. For a Lady I Know
If You Should Go
(Countee Cullen)
Owed to New York
(Byron Rufus Newton)
Pictures of the Floating World
(Amy Lowell)
1. Autumn Haze
2. A Lover
3. Nuit Blanche
4. Nuance
5. The Pond
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(Central Park At Dusk,
Departing Summer,
& Owed to New York)
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13 ART SONGS
For High Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
​Sea Gypsy
(Richard Hovey)
Three Poems
of Emily Dickinson
1. I Never Saw a Moor
2. The Butterfly Upon the Sky
3. Wild Nights!
Three Poems
of William Carlos Williams
1. The Red Wheelbarrow
2. El Hombre
3. Summer Song
Two Lullabies
(Langston Hughes)
1. Winter Sweetness
2. Fairies
Two Parables
(Kahlil Gibran)
1. On the Steps
of the Temple
2. The Fox
Two Poems of Amy Lowell
1. July Midnight
2. Madonna of the
Evening Flowers
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(Sea Gypsy, Three Poems of Emily Dickinson,
& Two Parables)
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14 ART SONGS
For Medium-High Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Two Poems
of Emma Lazarus
1. Long Island Sound
2. The New Colossus
Two Poems of
Georgia Douglas Johnson
1. The Dreams of the Dreams
2. Lost llusions
Two Poems
of Henry Livingston Jr.
1. Catharine Breese Livingston
2. Acrostic- Eliza Hughes
Two Poems
of James Weldon Johnson
1. Sunset in the Tropics
2. The Gift to Sing
Two Poems
of Jessie Redmon Fauset
1. Oblivion
2. Rain Fugue
Two Poems
of Native American Poets
1. Seashells
(Alexander Posey)
2. Oh, Give Me Back
My Bended Bow
(William Walker Jr.)
Two Poems
of Sara Teasdale​
1. A Cry
2. But Not to Me
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(Two Poems of Emma Lazarus
& Jessie Redmon Fauset)
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10 ART SONGS
For Medium-High Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Two Psalms (solo voice)
1. Psalm 23 (KJV)
2. Psalm 117 (KJV)
Two Songs for Children
1. Afternoon on a Hill
(Edna St. Vincent Millay)
2. The Little Turtle
(Vachel Lindsay)
Two Songs
of the American Countryside
1. A Farm Picture
(Walt Whitman)
2. The Pasture
(Robert Frost)
Two Songs
of the American South
1. Summer in the South
(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
2. Southern Mansion
Velvet Shoes
(Elinor Wylie)
Zalka Peetruza
(Raymond Garfield Dandridge)
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10 ART SONGS for Medium-High Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano, Vocal & Guitar Chords at Sheet Music Direct
(Two Songs for Children,
Velvet Shoes, & Zalka Peetruza)
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16 ART SONGS
For Medium-Low Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Pictures of the Floating World
(Amy Lowell)
1. Autumn Haze
2. A Lover
3. Nuit Blanche
4. Nuance
5. The Pond
Rain Fugue
(Jessie Redmon Fauset)
Sea Gypsy
(Richard Hovey)
Three Poems
of Emily Dickinson
1. I Never Saw a Moor
2. The Butterfly
Upon the Sky
3. Wild Nights!
Two Lullabies
(Langston Hughes)
1. Winter Sweetness
2. Fairies
Two Parables
(Kahlil Gibran)
1. On the Steps
of the Temple
2. The Fox
Two Poems
of Georgis Douglas Johnson
1. The Dreams of the Dreamer
2. Lost Illusions
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(Rain Fugue, Two Lullabies,
& Pictures of the Floating World)
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15 ART SONGS
For Medium-Low Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Afternoon on a Hill
(Edna St. Vincent Millay)
An Hymn to the Evening
(Phillis Wheatley)
April Rain Song
(Langston Hughes)
Belle Gunness
(Anonymous)
Central Park at Dusk
(Sara Teasdale)
Departing Summer
(George Moses Horton)
Eldorado
(Edgar Allan Poe)
Four Epitaphs
(Countee Cullen)
If You Should Go
(Countee Cullen)
July Midnight
(Amy Lowell)
Long Island Sound
(Emma Lazarus)
Owed to New York
(Byron Rufus Newton)
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(July Midnight, Belle Gunness,
& Eldorado)
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14 ART SONGS
For Medium-Low Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Two Poems
of Henry Livingston Jr.
1. Catharine Breese Livingston
2. Acrostic- Eliza Hughes
​Two Poems
of James Weldon Johnson
1. Sunset in the Tropics
2. The Gift to Sing
Two Poems
of Native American Poets
1. Seashells
(Alexander Posey)
2. Oh, Give Me Back
My Bended Bow
(William Walker Jr.)
​Two Poems
of Sara Teasdale
1. A Cry
2. But Not to Me
​Two Psalms
​1. Psalm 23
2. Psalm 117
Two Songs
of the American South
1. Summer in the South
(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
2. Southern Mansion
(Arna Bontemps)
​Velvet Shoes
(Elinor Wylie)
​Zalka Peetruza
(Raymond Garfield Dandridge)
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(Two Poems of Henry Livingston Jr., Two Poems of J.W. Johnson, & Two Poems of Native American Poets)
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A CEREMONY OF SONGS
FOR THE CELEBRATION OF SPRING
For High Voice & Bb Clarinet
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Music by Jeremiah Evans
Poems by Sara Teasdale, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson,
& Paul Laurence Dunbar
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1. Fanfare...(Bb cl. solo)
2. There Will Come Soft Rains
(Sara Teasdale)
3. April
(Sara Teasdale)
4. Sonnet
(Alice Dunbar Nelson)
5. Spring Pools
(Robert Frost)
6. A Light Exists in Spring
(Emily Dickinson)
7. Spring Song
(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
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Duration: 15'20"
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DRIFTING FLOWERS
OF THE SEA
For Medium Voice & Oboe
Music by Jeremiah Evans
Poem by Sadakichi Hartmann
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TWO POEMS OF
RALPH WALDO
EMERSON
For Medium-Low Voice,
Bb Clarinet, Violin, Cello, & Piano
Music by Jeremiah Evans
1. Brahma
2. The Rhodora​
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