Medieval Songs From the Time of Chaucer
Sumer Is Icumen
Sanctus. Maria mater egregia
Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, GG.4.27(1), University Library Cambridge.
Copyright: Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

60 second sample clips from the album Sumer Is Icumen In, The Hilliard Ensemble, Harmonia Mundi, France, 1985

 

Perhaps the most recognized piece of English medieval misic. This is a round for four voices written in Reading Abbey around 1240
A canon in latin celebrating the resurrection sung at Easter
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