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Xenos Korones
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Xenos Korones (fl. c. 1350) was a 14th Century Byzantine composer and brother of Agathon Korones. His reputation as "teacher of the teachers" next to John Koukouzelis is confirmed by six methods ascribed to him. Among them two longer ones became very famous: the "method of nenanismata and teretismata" in echos protos, and the "method of the sticherarion" beginning with the first sticheron (SAV 1) which passes through all the echoi (but not to a systematic plan like in Mega Ison) with melodic formulas from the entire repertoire of the old sticherarion (see Dodecanese Archive, Archeio Demogerontias Symes, Ms. 335, ff. 10v-13r; ff. 24r-29r). The 14th-century akolouthiai GR-An 2458 called Xenos Korones "lampadarios at Hagia Sophia", later sources also do mention that he later promoted to the position of the protopsaltes. We do not know the exact dates of the nominations, but his activities must have been around 1350, since he also set a religious poem composed by Patriarch Isidoros I (1347-49) into music. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Festal Trisagion (As Many as Have Been Baptized) [Arr. I. Arvanitis] [Live]
2852Kalophonic Polychronion
533The Service of the Furnace: V. Second Canticle (Ode 8)
534The Service of the Furnace: II. First Canticle (Ode 7)
515The Service of the Furnace: IV. Conclusion of the First Canticle
466The Service of the Furnace: VII. Conclusion of the Second Canticle
437Festal Trisagion (‘As many of you as have been baptized’)
28Dynamis, mode second
19Dynamis, mode second,
110In thee, O full of grace, all creation doth rejoice in Mode IV Plagal
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