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“Sumer is Icumen In” is an unusual and ingenious song dating from 13th-century England. The two lowest voices trade a short repeated phrase throughout, singing the text “sing cuckoo.” Above this repeated pattern, the top four voices enter sequentially on the same note, singing the text “sumer is icumen in.” The example begins with the two lowest voices alone and continues through four separate entries of the upper, canonic voices.
"Sumer is icumen in" performed by The Hilliard Ensemble, from Chants medievaux anglais (Cat.# Harmonia Mundi HCM 901154) (p)1985 Harmonia Mundi. All rights reserved.
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