Sumer is icumen in

Anonyme

Edition
Published by Chester Music Ltd. [Great Britain] , 1983 ; in Chester books of Madrigals no. 4 (48 p.)
Ref. : JWC 55495  (1 p.) , "The Chester Books of Madrigals ; The Seasons"
Editor or author of the restitution: Petti, Anthony G.
 
Description
Text in: old English + adapted in Latin
Epoque: 13th century
Genre-Style-Form: Secular ; Rondo ; Madrigal ; Middle ages
Type of Choir:  (12 mixed voices )
Tonality: E flat major
Musicological Sources: original manuscript in the British Library (Harleian 978, f.l.v.), dates around the middle of the 13th century, and the composer is thought to have been a monk from Reading Abbey.
 

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