{{Short description|American songwriter (1879–1942)}} '''Frederick Jerome Work''' (c. 1879 - 1942) was a collector, arranger ("harmonizer"), and composer of songs in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|1613176807}} |last1=Kimberling |first1=Clark |title=Three Generations of Works and Their Contributions to Congregational Singing |journal=The Hymn |location=Boston |volume=65 |issue=3 |date=Summer 2014 |pages=10–17 }}</ref> He was part of a family of musicians<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200196580/|title=John Wesley Work, III (1901-1967)|website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> and published a collection of African-American spirituals with his brother John Wesley Work.
He worked at Fisk University and with its Jubilee Singers and toured with another singing group he conducted.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kucJEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22f.j.+work%22+fisk&pg=PT178|title=Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance|first=Cary D.|last=Wintz|date=November 25, 2020|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135606411 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He played the piano.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k-AaBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22f.j.+work%22&pg=PT62|title=To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition|first1=Lynn|last1=Abbott|first2=Doug|last2=Seroff|date=February 1, 2013|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=9781496801623 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was photographed at Albert Coombs Barnes home in 1940.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2028792|title=Work, Frederick J. (Frederick Jerome), at the home of Albert C. (Albert Coombs) Barnes, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania - Yale University Library|website=collections.library.yale.edu}}</ref>
He was born in Nashville, Tennessee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/f/frederick-jerome-work|title=Hymnology|website=hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk}}</ref>
==Books== *''New Jubilee Songs, as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University'' 2nd ed. Collected and Harmonized by Frederick J. Work (1904)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aafa.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/41827|title=New Jubilee Songs, as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk Univ., 1904, 2nd ed. Collected and Harmonized by Frederick J. Work, 1904 | Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History|website=aafa.galileo.usg.edu}}</ref> * ''Folk songs of the American Negro'' with John Wesley Work with John Wesley Work II
==Songs== *"Wade in the Water" *"Out of the Depths"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3oMAQAAIAAJ&q=out+of+the+depths|title=Folk Song of the American Negro|first=John Wesley|last=Work|date=November 2, 1915|publisher=Press of Fisk University|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==See also== *Julian Work *Monroe Work
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Work, Frederick J.}} Category:American male songwriters Category:20th-century African-American musicians Category:Fisk University people Category:1879 births Category:1942 deaths