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I made this musical meditation relying on the first verse of John’s Gospel: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’.

There are many analogies that try to convey ‘the unity of God and Jesus since the beginning of the times, and eternally’ but I am so very fond of the “analogy” John used in his Gospel: The Word as the Union and inseparable essence of God and Jesus, being them two two different persons.

The mind (Thought) and the words that “dwell” in the mind (in their very essential means) are One and share the very same essence. Words and Mind are essentially a single entity altogether at the same time that they are two different “things” or “persons”… the same that happens with God and Jesus. But the analogy between God/Jesus and the Word works wonderfully not just in that sense but in the means that words “get out” of the mind when they are spoken or written (while keeping the essence of the mind) and they are “incarnated” in sound (voice) or printed letters… and that “incarnation” of the mind in form of voice or letters gets spread throughout the world and people. That “incarnation” (voice or printed letters) spreads the message of the mind and make people who listen or read that message commune with the mind that spread such message… exactly as happens with the message of Jesus, considering Jesus as an incarnation of God that spreads the message of God among people making them commune with Him. I got these ideas from Ludolf of Saxonia and St Augustine.

Having such thoughts in mind I made this musical meditation trying to convey them in the shape of music. So at the beginning of the piece (the beginning of times) I made two different notes of the same trumpet sound in unison, together as one. They are two different notes (persons) of the same instrument sounding as one single entity (as happens with God and Jesus). I chose the sound of a trumpet because I find its magestic character very appropriate to evoke God and Jesus.

So in the first part of this piece the “note” of God and the “note” of Jesus sound in unison, as One, repeatedly. Jus a note: I titled this piece “Generation” but Jesus was not Generated, Jesus is Uncreated, he exists since always and for always, eternally.

In the second part of the piece a melody with the same trumpet sounds representing God and after it the same melody with the same trumpet (same essence) sounds representing Jesus (but in a different tessitura -as a different person-). So in this second part God and Jesus are represented in alternation, being different “persons”, but as a single structure, entity and essence.

In the third part of this piece the melody that represents God and the melody that represents Jesus sound in combination, following at the same time two different lines (persons) in a single structure (essence). The polyphonic condition of this third part evokes the unity of the two persons, God and Jesus.

So this musical meditation exemplify, as a musical analogy, three different ways (unison, alternation and counterpoint) in which God and Jesus are One, share the same essence, but being two different persons. Those three different ways of “being” One and two persons at the same time is actually expressed in one single way: the musical piece by itself as a single entity.

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from Meditationes Vitae Christi I -Generation and Childhood Of Christ-, released March 5, 2017

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Alvaro Barcala Madrid, Spain

Artist and composer. Barcala bases his compositions mostly on the piano, going through a range of sounds from post- classical, ambient and experimental.

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