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"Sumer is icumen in" (aka "Summer Canon" or "The Cuckoo Song") is the initial sequence of notes (ie the incipit) of a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century. The title translates approximately to "Summer has come in" or "Summer has arrived". Written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English, the composer's identity is now unknown (it may have been W. de Wycombe). The manuscript in which it is preserved was copied between 1261 and 1264. It is the oldest known musical composition featuring six-part polyphony.