THE FIFTH STATION OF THE CROSS - SIMON OF CYRENE HELPS JESUS CARRY THE CROSS by JOHN CARTÉE Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

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Artist JOHN CARTÉE

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer JOHN CARTÉE

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 4

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher John Cartée

Level 5

Product ID 1655818

Genre Sacred Religious Christian Easter Lent

Instruments Piano

Product Description

The Fifth Station of The Cross - Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry The Cross for solo piano, is the fifth movement of a prayerful devotion on The Stations of the Cross, referring to the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. This is the only movement of the entire 15 movement piano cycle where there is no connecting themes to other movements because of its uniqueness in that Simon of Cyrene is the only non-divine person to help Jesus carry The Cross. In other movements, the music is characterized by recurring themes in the entire piano cycle entitled The Stations of the Cross for Solo Piano by John Cartée.

Simon of Cyrene enters into the divine plan of helping Jesus carry The Cross on Good Friday. The opening in five-four time is soft and mysterious with an offbeat rhythm and sustained pedal. It gently develops into a forte section continuously acknowledged by octave notes. This idea is developed using the rich harmonic sounds of the lower register. It drives on, as Jesus keeps going and now with Simon's momentum striving into a climax on their journey together before it returns to the original mysteriousness.

Simon, you touched a color of divine love, to feel its helpless and vunerable shade, a rainbow of pain. Or did you choose to carry it at all? But one glance, one look from his ocean eyes inviting you to hold it tenderly, an irresistible love. Take it Simon, caress it in your arms and hold it close for it is my salvation.
John Cartée

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