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The Seventh Station of The Cross - Jesus Falls the Second Time for solo piano, is the seventh movement of a prayerful devotion on The Stations of the Cross, referring to the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The music is characterized by recurring themes that appears in other movements of the entire piano cycle of 15 pieces or movements entitled The Stations of the Cross for Solo Piano by John Cartée.
The seventh movement opens with a fortissimo broken chord sequence in the bass representing the frustration of falling a second time. The Theme of The Trinity (heard in movements 4 and 8, containing 3 ascending notes) is inserted into this sequence. The Theme of Time (4-6 repeated notes and presented in movements 3, 9, 11 and 15) and The Theme of The Cross (6 notes divided into 2 pitches heard in movements 2, 3, 4, 9, 11 and 14) both interrupt the fall. A new theme is introduced here entitled The Joy of The Cross (movement 9) representing the ultimate joy of Jesus' love for us knowing that his pain will end all pain by the reconciliation of mankind to God through The Cross.
A new section with momentum is introduced with harmonic offbeat rhythms surrounding The Theme of The Cross. This links to The Theme of Perservance (movements 3 and 9) a 13-note theme accompanied by trills and broken chords in the left hand. Mary's Theme (movements 4 and 12) is juxtaposed with The Theme of The Cross (2, 3, 4, 9, 11 and 14).
The opening sequence returns this time played softer with sustain pedal with a crescendo into The Theme of The Trinity (3 ascending notes) with accented fortissimo on top of the opening sequence for a dramatic ending.
O guiding night! O night more lovely than the dawn! O night that has united the lover with his beloved, transforming the beloved in her lover... I abandoned and forgot myself, laying my face on my beloved, all things ceased. I went out from myself, leaving my cares forgotten among the lillies.
St. John of The Cross
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