In Competition No. 3154 you were invited to supply your own variations on the medieval round ‘Sumer is icumen in’.
This six-part polyphony — the jaunty accompaniment to the ritual sacrifice of Edward Woodwood’s Christian copper in the horrific climax of The Wicker Man — is also known as the Summer Canon and dates from about 1300.
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