Schalk graduated in 1952 from Concordia University Chicago (then known as Concordia Teachers College River Forest) with a B.S. in education and proceeded to earn a M.Mus from the Eastman School of Music and an M.A.R. from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis.
The Vocal Descant Edition for Worship, Third Edition (GIA Publications, 1994) offers 254 descants by such composers as Donald Busarow, John Ferguson, Richard Hillert, Robert Hobby, Hal Hopson, David Hurd, Austin Lovelace, Ronald Nelson, Sam Batt Owens, Robert Powell, Richard Proulx, William P. Rowan, Carl Schalk, Randall Sensmeier, Scott Withrow, and Michael Young.
According to Carl Schalk, the hymn of the day came out of the singing of the gradual which is sung before the epistle reading.
Carl Sagan | Carl Jung | Carl Orff | Carl Maria von Weber | Carl Lewis | Carl Zeiss AG | Carl Linnaeus | Carl Sandburg | Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | Carl Levin | Carl Zeiss | Carl Michael Bellman | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Carl Froch | Carl Perkins | Carl von Clausewitz | Carl Reiner | Carl Hancock Rux | Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | Carl Edwards | Carl Cox | Carl Bildt | Carl Barks | Carl Wilson | Carl Schmitt | Carl Milles | Carl Crawford | Carl Bernstein | Carl Andre | Carl Van Vechten |