J. Evans Music Press
AMERICAN
VERSE & VESTIGE
Music by Jeremiah Evans
A Series of Art Songs Celebrating America's
Enduring Poets & Cultural Essence
& COLLECTED
PIANO WORKS
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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.
19 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
God Bless Our Native Land
(Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)
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
Roses
(Adapted from a poem
by George Godoy)
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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)
Individual song titles are available from SHEET MUSIC DIRECT
15 ART SONGS
For Medium-Low Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Rain Fugue
(Jessie Redmon Fauset)
Roses
(Adapted from a poem
by George Godoy)
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 Emma Lazarus
1. Long Island Sound
2. The New Colossus
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(Roses, Three Poems of William Carlos Williams, Two Lullabies)
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19 ART SONGS
For Medium-Low Voice & Piano
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)
God Bless Our Native Land
(Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)
If You Should Go
(Countee Cullen)
July Midnight
(Amy Lowell)
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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(July Midnight, Belle Gunness,
& Eldorado)
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18 ART SONGS
For Medium-Low Voice & Piano
CONTENTS:
Two Poems
of Georgis Douglas Johnson
1. The Dreams of the Dreamer
2. Lost Illusions
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 for Children
1. Afternoon on a Hill
(Edna St. Vincent Millay)
2. The Little Turtle
(Vachel Lindsay)
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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COLLECTED PIANO MUSIC
Book 1
(Easy Works)
Lyrical and highly accessible works for early intermediate- early advanced level students, amateurs, and more experienced pianists alike. ​​
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Two Lyrical Sketches for the Young
Lyrical Sketchbook (12 easy pcs)
Three Lyrical Duets
Two Canzonas
Four American Canvas Sketches
Three American Bagatelles
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COMPLETE PIANO WORKS, BOOK 1 by Jeremiah Evans Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct
COLLECTED PIANO MUSIC
Book 2
(Neoclassical Works)​
Highly structured compositions in a taut, virtuosic, and muscular neoclassical style.
Three Inventions
Two Nocturnes
Toccata
Sonatina
Sonata
Fantasia & Allegro Ostinato
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COLLECTED PIANO MUSIC
Book 3
(Eclectic-Contemporary Works)​
Progressive and wide-ranging in style, these eclectic works are infused with fresh, contemporary sounds.
Lyrical Etude in C Major
Three Epigraphs
Four Short Waltzes
Shades & Hues (Book 1)
Shades & Hues (Book 2)
Five Pages From A City Journal
Prologue in Two Pages
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