Includes bibliographical references. "The works of Carl Schalk": p. 289-320. Music of the Lutheran heritage. Figs and thistles : Luther's hymns in English / Robin A. Leaver -- The Cantica sacra (Hamburg, 1588) of Franz Eler : Latin chant and German chorales for the Lutheran liturgy / Daniel Zager -- Johann Krieger's musical contrast of law and gospel in the cantata Danksaget dem vater / Mary Benson Stahlke -- The sacred vocal music of Johann Kuhnau / Evangeline Rimbach -- Bible and hymnal in Johann Sebastian Bach's music : a commentary on three cantata movements / Christoph Wolff -- Dancing before the Lord : dance rhythms in Bach cantatas / Natalie Jenne -- The Lutheran musical heritage and worship in the twenty-first century. Seven habits of highly effective liturgies : insights from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century / Joseph Herl -- "A new song here shall be begun" : Reformation-era hymnody for twenty-first century children / Barbara J. Resch -- No special doctrinaire schemes / Paul Westermeyer -- New life for the musical Passion : selected Passions for liturgical worship, 1955-2004 / William H. Braun -- Choral classics for the Lutheran Church musician : a letter to a young church choir director / Paul Bouman -- The pastor and the church musician / Frank C. Senn -- The life and works of Carl Schalk. A focused life / Steven Wente -- The works of Carl Schalk.