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  • CPDL #17453: Icon_pdf_globe.gif Icon_snd_globe.gif LilyPond Network.png Alternate Version Available
Editor: Monique Rio (submitted 2008-07-03).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 98 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2008-01-01).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: © 2006 Philip Legge
Edition notes: with a realisation, and alternate lyrics © David Greagg.
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Editor: N. Nakamura (submitted 2006-03-24).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 56 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Postscript file also available. Copyright © 2004 by N. Nakamura.
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Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: Letter   Copyright: Personal
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Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2001-05-19).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Encore file is zipped. Canon realized for 4 mixed voices, SATB.BB.

General Information

Title: Sumer is icumen in
Composer: Anonymous

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: 6 equal voices

Genres: Secular & SacredCanon

Languages: Middle English, Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: c. 1250 C.E.

Description: This rota or round was originally sung with the secular Middle English text. It is widely held that the Latin text was added later in order to preserve it in the library of Reading Abbey (since profane works would not be held in the Abbey).

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Original text and translations

Middle_English.png Middle English text

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing Cuccu!
GroweÞ sed, and bloweÞ med,
and springÞ wde nu.
Sing Cuccu!

Awe bleteÞ after lomb,
lhouÞ after calve cu.
Bulluc sterteÞ,
bucke verteÞ,
murie sing Cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
wel singes Þu Cuccu
ne swik Þu naver nu.

Pes:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!

*Note: Þ in Middle English sounds like "th".


Latin.png Latin text

Perspice Christicola,
que digacio;
celicus agricola
pro vitis vicio,
filio,
non parcens exposuit
mortis exicio.
Qui captivos
Semivivos
a supplicio
Vite donat
et secum coronat
in celi solio.


English.png English translation

Summer is come,
sing loud, cuckoo!
The seed grows and the meadow blooms,
and now the wood turns green.
Sing, cuckoo!

Ewe bleats after lamb,
cow lows after calf,
bullock leaps,
buck farts,
sing merrily, cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo!
You sing well, cuckoo.
Don't ever stop now.

Pes:
Sing cuckoo now. Sing, Cuckoo.
Sing Cuckoo. Sing cuckoo now!



English.png English translation

Observe, worshipper of Christ,
what gracious condescension!
The heavenly husband,
because of the vine's imperfection,
not sparing his son,
exposed him
to death's destruction.
The prisoners,
who are half-dead
on account of the death sentence,
he restores to life,
and crowns them at his side
on heaven's throne.
-Trans. Ernest H. Sanders