Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36881

	Ἐπωφελὴς μέθοδος ἡ τοῦ Κορώνη,
	κρατημάτων φέρουσα χειρονομίας
	εἰς ἦχον τερπνὸν τοῦ πλαγίου δευτέρου
	καὶ νενανῶ δέματος ἠκριβωμένου·
	ἥδυστον γὰρ τοῦ νενανῶ τὸ μέλος,
	ὡς ἡ τέχνη δείκνυσι τῆς μελουργίας·
	τὰ γὰρ ἄλλα δέματα τῶν ὀκτὼ ἤχων
	(τοῦ πρώτου, φημὴ, καὶ καθεξῆς τῶν ἄλλων)
	δένουσι καὶ λύουσιν ἐντέχνως πάνυ,
	τὴν μεταβολὴν ὡς ἐν βραχὺ δεικνύντες·
	τὸ δὲ νενανῶ ἐκτεταμένον μέλος
	ὑπὲρ τῶν ὀκτὼ ἔνατος ἦχος πέλει.

Type(s)	[36882] Ἐπωφελὴς μέθοδος ἡ τοῦ Κορώνη (12 verses)
Text source	G. Stathis, 1976, Ἅγιον Ὄρος (vol. 2), Athens: 704
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1500
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 570 [1451-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 103v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Plousiadenos of Crete < Greece (1429 - 09/08/1500) - RGK: I.176, II.234, III.294 - VGH: 185.H - PLP: X.23385 (archon, protopapas, psaltes, thytes)
Contextual information	It precedes the method of melismatic vocal passages for the Nenano melody (του νενανω μέλους).
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Eight Tones Music Orthros Xenos Koronis (1301-1350) - PLP: VI.13243
Bibliography	Primary I. Liakos, S. Mazera 2013, Metodele de predare a muzicii bisericești – arta psaltică (secolele X‐XIX), Lucrări de muzicologie, 28, 38-56: 50
Number of verses	12
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Georgi Parpulov. Creator(s) Juan Bautista Juan López The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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