THE  THIRD  DAY  SONATA

The Third Day Sonata is a composition in three parts for strings, ensemble, or piano and represents a fusion of; medieval, Scottish folk, classical and more contemporary styles. It was written by Andrew Hennessey, a Christian, in an attempt to pay tribute to an unknowable sacrifice that took place beyond the scope of the imagination and endurance and sensitivities of the human psyche - the brutal Crucifixion of Christ. Buried and sleeping at the centre of the Earth, on the Third day of death his Father, our Father, made him live again.

PART 1, BARS 001 - 056, DAY 1, is called BABEL IN THE DARK. The Light of the World has gone out. A world without Light, full of discourse and confusion. Melodic opinions and directions change.

PART 2, BARS 057 - 112, DAY 2, is called THE DEATH OF THE WORLD. Pomp and circumstance and procrastination begin to reign, but there is also a prelude to what will come tomorrow. Finally the night ends with the Dawning of the Third Day.

PART 3, BARS 113 - 164, DAY 3, is called ASCENSION. The Risen Christ re-awakens and arises to Heaven, and God's right hand, gradually and temporally detaching from the bass notes that symbolize the burden of the low and immature world.

NOTES ON THE DEMO SOUNDFILE

This General MIDI file doesn't have sculptured dynamics or stereo separation but is intended to illustrate the piece as a musical whole for the purposes of printing manuscript and learning the parts for live performances.

THE RECONCILIATION OF ALIENS

Ephesians 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11  Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12  That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15  Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16  And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17  And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18  For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19  Now therefore ye are no more [aliens (Jerusalem Bible)] strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.