Tune: MARVEL

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MARVEL

Composer: Carl Schalk
Published in 7 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Eight Improvisations on 20th Century Hym…

Composer: Carl Schalk

Carl F. Schalk (b. Des Plaines, IL, 1929; d. 2021) is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. He completed graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. From 1952 to 1956 he taught and directed music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wisconsin, and from 1958 to 1965 served as director of music for the International Lutheran Hour. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music.… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	MARVEL
Composer:	Carl Schalk
Meter:	8.8.8.8.8.8.8.6
Incipit:	55566 11555 51321
Key:	A♭ Major
Copyright:	© 1989 GIA Publications, Inc.

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Texts

Before the Marvel of This Night

As Tender As a Mother Hen

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Piano/Organ

Eight Improvisations on 20th Century Hymn Tunes, Set 2

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Organ Solo

Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ Volume 1: Musica Sacra
Composer/Editor Carl Flentge Schalk
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2002) pp. 26
Eight Improvisations on 20th Century Hymn Tunes Set 2
Composer/Editor Michael A. Burkhardt
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1999) pp. 25
Thine the Praise Volume 2: Organ Meditations on the Hymn Tunes of Carl Schalk
Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1994) pp. 14