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Summer is icumen in
anon.
words: anon.
words: anon.
Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing Cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, and springeth wde nu. Sing Cuccu! Awe bleteth after lombe, Lhouth after calve cu; Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth Murie sing Cuccu, Cuccu, Cuccu! Wel singes thu Cuccu, Ne swik thu never nu. |
Perhaps a little explanation is needed here.
"Sumer is icumen in" is a six part round. Four of the parts keep repeating the first six lines (starting in two bar intervals), while the last two sings the ground (the bottom line) as a two part canon.
You can add more voices by singing the six first line as a five, six, seven or more part canon (up to twelve!) but it's not that much point in it, and the sound might easily become too muddy.
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