Unveiling the Cross - Good Friday

A few years ago I published the musical score of Amelio Cimini’s Paschal Exsultet, which was my favorite melody: when I am asked to sing the Exsultet, I prefer to sing Cimini’s melody.

Well, this year, finding myself singing for the Unveiling of the Cross on Good Friday, a melody I had learned over the years came back to mind. However, I could not find it in the third edition of the Roman Missal published in Italian in 2020. And I began to suspect that the melody I had in mind was by some composer. Yet I could not find a corresponding melody on Youtube. In the meantime I transcribed the melody into a new score: this time, instead of using the program Finale for the transcription, I used the program MuseScore because I read the news that Finale had come to an end and would no longer be updated / released. I had to spend a couple of days figuring out how it worked, but in the end, searching the MuseScore forums, I managed to finish it.

Finally, I did some further research to make sure that the melody I had in mind was not my own invention, and in the end I was able to trace it: it was one of the melodies proposed in the previous edition of the Roman Missal, published in Italy in 1973. Since this Missal is now almost no longer found in churches, I thought it might nevertheless be useful to publish this score, because it is a melody I know, that I like, that stays with me, and it is difficult for me to adopt a new melody when this one is fixed in my head. And perhaps someone may find it useful…