andrewstuntpilot:A seven hundred year-old song for a sunny Sunday. The oldest known six-part musical
andrewstuntpilot:A seven hundred year-old song for a sunny Sunday. The oldest known six-part musical composition — “Sumer Is Icumen In", c.1260 (Middle English, Wessex dialect). Also noted are performance instructions in Latin along with later secondary lyrics in red on the theme of the Crucifixion, “‘Perspice χρ̅icola”. [Source: British Library, illuminated manuscript, Harley 978, f. 11v] [Listen]. -- source link