Sumer is icumen in / Perspice Christicola, Anonymous 13th-century English, sung by Quire Cleveland, dir. Ross W. Duffin, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Akron OH, on Oct. 29, 2017.
Sumer is icumen in is perhaps the most famous song from the Middle Ages. Its unique manuscript source describes the piece as a “rota,” which is Latin for “wheel,” and that imagery suits the concept of a round very well. Four voices follow each other on the same music, but a further wrinkle is that, beneath the voices of the round are two other voice parts, making their own short canon with each other. The manuscript refers to those as the “Pes” - literally the “foot,” and therefore serving the same sort of function as the repeating “ground bass” of later centuries. Sumer is icumen in has a sacred text as well, Perspice Christicola, written underneath the familiar English one. We sing both Latin and English lyrics here, and follow the reconstruction of the original melody from Ross Duffin’s 1988 article in the journal “Speculum.”
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