Xenos Korones
Xenos Korones
Genres: medieval, Classical, byzantine, Greek, choir
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About Xenos Korones
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.
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