Sumer Is Icumen In - Medieval English Song

Vocals and arrangement by Farya Faraji. Sumer is icumen in is a song from the mid 1200’s, written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English, and the author may possibly be W. de Wycombe, a composer and copyist. I’ve always seen this song as a coincidental companion piece to “Miri it is while sumer ilast,“ another song from the same era that laments the end of summer, whilst this one rejoices in the arrival of either spring or summer, some having theorised that the song is actually about the arrival of spring, and that the term sumer at the time was a larger, all encompassing term for the warmer periods of the year. My rendition of “Miri it is“ can be found here: It is a canon, or a round: the idea being that a minimum of three people sing the exact same melody, but not at the same time: someone starts the song, then someone starts singing the same song at a certain point after the other has started, and so on, creating