minstrel: Sumer Is Icumen In

[Steven G. Anderson]

Never mind.  No sooner did I send out my plea for help than I finally found
a complete copy of the sheet music.  Thanks anyway, everyone.

SGA

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> From: Steven G. Anderson <sande02 at emory.edu>
> To: minstrel at pbm.com
> Subject: minstrel: Sumer Is Icumen In
> Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 1:42 PM
> 
> "Sumer Is Icumen In" (aka "The Cuckoo Song") is famous for being the
> earliest surviving song written for six voices.  Unfortunately, the only
> sheet music I can find for it only gives the melody line which four
voices
> are singing as a round.  Listening to a recording, I've figured out that
> the fifth part is a baseline alternating between everyone's starting note
> and a third down, with the words "Sing cuccu, nu" ("sing cuckoo now")
> repeating over and over again.  Can anyone tell me what the sixth part
is?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve Anderson

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