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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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17 ART SONGS Medium-High Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

00:00 / 06:12

(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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13 ART SONGS for Medium-High Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Vocal Solo at Sheet Music Direct

00:00 / 08:12

(Sea Gypsy, Three Poems of Emily Dickinson,  

& Two Parables)

Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT

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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14 ART SONGS for Medium High Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

00:00 / 10:05

(Two Poems of Emma Lazarus

& Jessie Redmon Fauset)

Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT

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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

00:00 / 08:44

(Two Songs for Children,

Velvet Shoes, & Zalka Peetruza)

Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT

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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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16 ART SONGS for Medium-Low Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

00:00 / 08:20

(Rain Fugue, Two Lullabies,

& Pictures of the Floating World)

Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT

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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15 ART SONGHS for Medium-Low Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

00:00 / 07:17

(July Midnight, Belle Gunness,

& Eldorado)

Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT

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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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14 ART SONGS for Medium-Low Voice & Piano by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

00:00 / 10:33
(Two Poems of Henry Livingston Jr., Two Poems of J.W. Johnson, & Two Poems of Native American Poets)

Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT

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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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A Ceremony of Songs for the Celebration of Spring by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Instrumental Duet at Sheet Music Direct

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

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