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John Wesley Work

1873 - 1925 Person Name: John W. Work Jr., 1873-1925 Author of "Down by the Riverside" in Praise y Adoración John W. Work, Jr. (b. Nashville, TN, 1872; d. Nashville, 1925), is well known for his pioneering studies of African American folk music and for his leadership in the performance of spirituals. He studied music at Fisk University in Nashville and classics at Harvard and then taught Latin, Greek, and history at Fisk from 1898 to 1923. Director of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk, Work also sang tenor in the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, which toured the country after 1909 and made commercial recordings. He was president of Roger Williams University in Nashville during the last two years of his life. Work and his brother Frederick Jerome Work (1879-1942) were devoted to collecting, arranging, and publishing African American slave songs and spirituals. They published two collections: New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) and Folk Songs of the American Negro (1907). Bert Polman

Phil. V. S. Lindsley

Arranger of "[Going to lay down my burden]" in National Jubilee Melodies

Clarence Cameron White

1880 - 1960 Person Name: Clarence C. White Arranger of "[Goin’ to lay down my sword and shield]" in Lift Every Voice and Sing II White, Clarence Cameron; b. Clarksville, TN, 8/10/1880, d. New York, 6/30/60 LOC Name Authority Files

Hazel R. Brownson

Arranger of "STUDY WAR NO MORE" in At Worship

Lawrence Curry

1906 - 1966 Harmonizer of "[Goin't' lay down my burden]" in Hymns for Junior Worship

Edward C. Deas

1880 - 1944 Person Name: E. C. Deas Arranger of "[Goin' to lay down my sword and shield]" in Songs and Spirituals Edward C. Deas was born on 31 Jan 1880 in Florence County, South Carolina. He died June 20, 1944, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. email to Hymnary