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[[File:Ioann Damaskin ikona.jpg|thumb|John of Damascus ({{circa|675|749}}), who was a major proponent of 8th century [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōns]] and the supposed creator of the [[octoechos]] ]]

The [[Byzantine Empire]] lasted from AD 395 to 1453, during which [[Byzantine music|music was prominent throughout the empire]].<ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Nicol |first=Donald MacGillivray |author-link=Donald Nicol |date=21 September 2021 |title=Byzantine Empire &#124; History, Geography, Maps & Facts |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |location=Chicago |access-date=2 October 2021 |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Byzantine-Empire |quote=When did the Byzantine Empire exist?: The Byzantine Empire existed from approximately 395 CE—when the Roman Empire was split—to 1453.}}</ref>{{Refn|Even after the [[Fall of Constantinople]] in 1453 the Byzantine musical tradition continued in the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] through figures such as [[Panagiotes the New Chrysaphes]], [[Petros Bereketis]], [[Petros Peloponnesios]], and [[Chrysanthos of Madytos]],{{sfn|Levy|2001}}{{sfn|Touliatos|2001}} as well as Serbians such as [[Kir Stefan the Serb|Kir Stefan]], [[Isaiah the Serb|Isaiah]], [[Nikola the Serb|Nikola]] and [[Kir Joakim]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Randel |editor-first=Don Michael |year=2003 |title=The Harvard Dictionary of Music |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Cambridge |pages=751, 771 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|02rFSecPhEsC}} |isbn=978-0-674-01163-2 }}</ref>|group=n}} Both sacred and secular music were commonplace, with [[sacred music]] frequently used in church services and [[secular music]] in many events including, ceronmonies, dramas, ballets, banquets, festivals and sports games.{{sfn|Levy|2001}}{{sfn|Touliatos|2001}} However, despite its popularity, secular Byzantine music was harshly criticized by the [[Church Fathers]].{{sfn|Touliatos|2001}}{{refn|{{harvnb|Touliatos|2001}} lists [[John Chrysostom]], [[Tertullian]], [[Cyprian]], [[Clement of Alexandria]], [[Gregory Nazianzen]], [[Basil the Great]], [[Ambrose]], [[Augustine of Hippo]] and particularly [[Jerome]] as the church fathers who were vocally against secular Byzantine music|group=n}} Like their [[List of medieval composers|medieval Western contemporaries]], little is known about the lives of Byzantine composers.{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=62}}

Composers of sacred music, especially hymns and chants, are generally well documented throughout the history of Byzantine music. However, those before the reign of [[Justinian I]] are virtually unknown; the monks Anthimos, Auxentios and Timokles are said to have written [[troparia]], but only the text to a single one by Auxentios survives.<ref name="Metcalfe"/> The first major form was the [[kontakion]], of which [[Romanos the Melodist]] was the foremost composer. In the late 7th century the [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]] overtook the kontakion in popularity; [[Andrew of Crete]] became its first significant composer, and is traditionally credited as the genre's originator (though modern scholars now doubt this). The kañon reached its peak with the music of [[John of Damascus]] and [[Cosmas of Maiuma]] and later [[Theodore of Stoudios]] and [[Theophanes the Branded]] in the 8th and 9th centuries respectively.{{sfn|Levy|2001}}Secular music is considerably less documented; not until late in the empire's history are composers of secular music known by name, with [[Joannes Koukouzeles]], [[Xenos Korones]] and [[Joannes Glykys]] as the leading figures.{{sfn|Touliatos|2001}} Partly due to the little information concerning them, many modern studies of Byzantine music pay little attention to specific composers.{{sfn|Velimirović|1978|p=818}}

Like their [[List of medieval composers|Western counterparts of the same period]], recorded Byzantine composers were primarily men.{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=62}} The best known woman was [[Kassia]], a prolific and important composer of [[sticheron]] hymns and the only woman whose works entered the [[Byzantine liturgy]].{{sfn|Mellas|2020|pp=147–148}} A few other women are known to have been composers, Thekla, Theodosia, Martha and the daughter of [[John Kladas]] (her given name is unrecorded).{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|pp=64, 80}} Aside from Kassia, only the daughter of John Kladas has any surviving work, a single [[antiphon]].{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=64}} Some [[Byzantine emperor]]s are known to have been composers, such as [[Leo VI the Wise]], [[Constantine VII]] and possibly [[John III Doukas Vatatzes]].{{sfn|Kalaitzidis|Apostolopoulos|2015|loc=§2 "Prominent Personalities"}}

==Byzantine composers==
{{for|composers of the same time in the Western classical tradition|List of medieval composers}}

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|+ Byzantine composers
! scope="col" width="22%"                    | Name
! scope="col" width="20%"                    | Lifetime
! scope="col" width="28%" class="unsortable" | Extant works
! scope="col" width="35%"                    | Remarks
|- align=center
| colspan=5 {{n/a|The death of [[Theodosius I]] in 395 causes the permanent division of the [[Western Roman Empire]] and [[Byzantine Empire]]<ref name="Britannica"/>}}
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Anthimos
| {{fl|5th century}}
| Said to have composed [[troparia]] (none survive)
| A [[monophysite]]<ref name="Troparion">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Troelsgård |first=Christian |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Troparion |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28455 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000028455 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref><ref name="Metcalfe">{{cite book |last=Metcalfe |first=William |year=1898 |title=The Scottish Review |volume=XXXII |publisher=Alexander Gardner |url={{google books|plainurl=y|dlIcAQAAIAAJ}} |page=302 }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Auxentios
| {{fl|5th century}}
| The text to a single [[troparion]] survives (attribution uncertain); said to have composed others
| A biography on Auxentios attributes the composition of a [[troparion]] to him<ref name="Metcalfe"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Werner |first=Eric |year=1976 |title=Contributions to a Historical Study of Jewish Music |publisher=[[Ktav Publishing House]] |location=Brooklyn |pages=16–17 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|qVpTTufKYQkC}} }}</ref><ref name="Troparion"/>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Timokles
| {{fl|5th century}}
| Said to have composed [[troparia]] (none survive)
| –<ref name="Metcalfe"/><ref name="Troparion"/>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Anatolius of Constantinople]]
| Died 458
| A few hymns
|
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Severus of Antioch]]
| 465–538
| Many hymns
|<ref>{{cite book |last=Youssef |first=Youhanna Nessim |editor-last1=D'Alton |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Youssef |editor-first2=Youhanna Nessim |year=2016 |title=Severus of Antioch: His Life and Times |chapter=Hymns of Severus of Antioch and the Coptic Theotokia |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |location=Leiden |isbn=978-90-04-30799-5 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=rrS9CwAAQBAJ}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017062456/https://repository.divinity.edu.au/2878/1/_Youssef_Severus_Book__my_chapter.pdf |archive-date=2021-10-17 |chapter-url=https://repository.divinity.edu.au/2878/1/_Youssef_Severus_Book__my_chapter.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wolfram |first=Gerda |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Severus of Antioch |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.25529 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000025529 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[John bar Aphtonia]]
| {{circa|480|537}}
| A few hymns
| His hymns bare similarities to those of [[Severus of Antioch]], whom he wrote a biography on<ref>{{Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity | volume = 2|first=John W. |last=Watt |title=John bar Aphtonia |pages=819–820}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Jeff W. |last=Childers |title=John bar Aphtonia (d. 537) |encyclopedia=Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition |editor1=Sebastian P. Brock |editor2=Aaron M. Butts |editor3=[[George A. Kiraz]] |editor4=Lucas Van Rompay |url=https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/John-bar-Aphtonia |publisher=Gorgias Press |year=2011 }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Romanos the Melodist]]
| late 5th century – after 550
| About 60 of the 85 [[kontakion]] attributed to him are considered authentic
| The preeminent [[kontakion]] composer of his time<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Engberg |first=Gudrun |others=Revised by Alexander Lingas |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Romanos the Melodist |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23748 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000023748 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Kyriakos
| {{fl|6th century}}
| No works survive
| Contemporary of Romanos<ref name="Kucharek">{{cite book |last=Kucharek |first=Casimir A. |year=1971 |title=The Byzantine-Slav Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: Its Origin and Evolution |publisher=Alleluia Press |location=Combermere |pages=394 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|HpXpAAAAMAAJ}} |isbn=978-0-911726-06-0 }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Anastasius
| {{fl|6th century}}
| No works survive
| A composer recorded as "Anastasius" is thought to be a 6th century Byzantine emperor, either [[Anastasius I Dicorus]] ({{circa|431 – 9 July 518}}) or [[Anastasios II]] (Died 719). Contemporary of Romanos<ref name="Kucharek"/>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Germanus I of Constantinople|Germanus I]]
| {{circa|634|733}}
| Various [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s are attributed to him
| If authentic, his [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s would be earlier than those of Andrew of Crete and thus confirm Andrew is not the genre's originator<ref name="Velimirović">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Velimirović |first=Miloš |author-link=Miloš Velimirović |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Kanōn |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.14677 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000014677 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Jeffery |first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Jeffery |editor-last=Jeffery |editor-first=Peter |editor-link=Peter Jeffery |year=2001 |title=The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West |chapter=The Earliest Oktōēchoi: The Role of Jerusalem and Palestine in the Beginnings of Modal Ordering |publisher=[[Boydell Press]] |location=Suffolk |isbn=978-0-85115-800-6 |page=181 |chapter-url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=vf2M-F2oPsMC}} }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Andrew of Crete]]
| {{circa|660|740}}
| Hymns, primarily [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s{{sfn|Mellas|2020|p=115}}
| Best known for his Great Kanōn, a 250 stanza hymn. Traditionally credited with inventing the [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]], though modern scholars doubt this<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=[[Enrica Follieri|Follieri, Enrica]] |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Andrew of Crete |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.00894 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000000894 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref><ref name="Velimirović"/>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[John of Damascus]]<br/><small>(John Damascene)</small>
| {{circa|675|749}}
| Many [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōns]] and [[troparia]]. Traditionally credited with inventing the [[octoechos]], though modern scholars doubt this
| A close colleague of [[Cosmas of Maiuma]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=[[Enrica Follieri|Follieri, Enrica]] |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=John Damascene |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.14388 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000014388 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Cosmas of Maiuma]]<br/><small>(Kosmas of Jerusalem)</small>
| {{fl.|early 8th century}}
| Various [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōns]], [[sticheron]], [[Idiomelon|idiomelas]] and triōdias
| A close colleague of [[John of Damascus]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=[[Enrica Follieri|Follieri, Enrica]] |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Kosmas of Jerusalem |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15408 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000015408 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Stephen the Sabaite]] 
| Died 807
| [[Idiomelon|Idiomelas]] in the [[Triodion]], [[Canon (hymnography)|Kanōns]]
| {{sfn|Patrich|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4pj9YNdgJYC&pg=PA11 11]}}
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Theodore the Studite]] 
| 759 – 826
| Various [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōns]]
| Kept a letter correspondence with [[Kassia]]; brother of Joseph the Confessor<ref name="Velimirović"/><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Thomas |editor-first1=John Philip |editor-last2=Hero |editor-first2=Angela Constantinides |year=2000 |title=Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founders' Typika and Testaments |publisher=[[Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection]] |location=Washington D.C. |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=huh3WG-sqtUC&pg=PA85 85] |url={{google books|plainurl=y|huh3WG-sqtUC}} |isbn=978-0-88402-232-9 }}</ref>
|- 
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Joseph the Confessor]]
| {{fl|9th century}}
| [[Troparia]], [[sticheron]] and [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s
| Brother of Theodore the Studite<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint Joseph, Bishop of Thessalonica, and brother of Saint Theodore of Studion |publisher=[[Orthodox Church in America]] |url=https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100324-saint-joseph-bishop-of-thessalonica-and-brother-of-saint-theodor |access-date=2 October 2021 }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Theophanes the Branded]] 
| 775 – 845
| [[Canon (hymnography)|Kanōns]] for saints and his brother, [[Theodorus and Theophanes|Theodorus]].
| Contributed to the ''[[Octoechos (liturgy)|Parakletike]]''<ref name="Velimirović"/>{{sfn|Patrich|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4pj9YNdgJYC&pg=PA174 174]}}
|- 
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Kassia]] 
| {{Hs|0805}}805/810 – 865/867 
| More than 50 [[liturgical]] works, primarily [[stichera]]. 26 have disputed authenticity
| The only woman Byzantine composer whose work is included in the [[Byzantine liturgy]]. The most important and renowned woman in Byzantine music. She had a letter correspondence with [[Theodore the Studite]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Touliatos |first=Diane |year=2001b |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Kassia |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40895 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040895 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>{{sfn|Touliatos|1996|p=1}}
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Joseph the Hymnographer]] 
| {{circa|816}} – 886 
| Various [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s, of which 525 survive.
| Contributed to the ''[[Octoechos (liturgy)|Parakletike]]''<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Toma |editor-first=Paraskevi |year=2018 |title=The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present |publisher=[[LIT Verlag]] |location=Münster |pages=xxi–xxii |url={{google books|plainurl=y|3QdaDwAAQBAJ}} |isbn=978-3-643-90995-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Jeffery |first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Jeffery |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Oktōēchos |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.50097 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000050097 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Thekla
| {{fl|9th century}}
| No works survive
| Known to have written now lost [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=80}}
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Theodosia
| {{fl|9th century}}
| No works survive
| Known to have written now lost [[Canon (hymnography)|kanōn]]s. She was an abbess who lived near [[Constantinople]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Touliatos |first=Diane |editor-last=Marshall |editor-first=Kimberly |editor-link=Kimberly Marshall |year=1995 |title=Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions |chapter=The Traditional Role of Greek Women in Music from Antiquity to the End of the Byzantine Empire |publisher=[[Northeastern University Press]] |location=Boston |isbn=978-1-55553-219-2 |page=119 }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Leo VI the Wise]] 
| 866 – 912 
| Hymns for the [[Great Feast]] of the [[Exaltation of the Cross]]
| Was [[Byzantine emperor]] from 886 to 912<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Cartwright |first=Mark |year=2017 |encyclopedia=[[World History Encyclopedia]] |title=Leo VI |location=Horsham |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Leo_VI/ }}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Martha
| {{fl|End of the 9th century}}
| No works survive
| Abbess and mother of [[Simeon Stylites]]{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=80}}
|- 
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Constantine VII]]
| 905 – 959
| 11 ''exaposteilaria anastasima'' and 3 [[sticheron]]
| Was [[Byzantine emperor]] from 908 until 959 (co-emperor until 945)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Troelsgård |first=Christian |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Constantine VII Porphyrogennetus |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06331 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006331 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Nikephoros Ethikos]]
| {{fl|{{circa|1300}}}}
| Liturgical chants; 40 survive
| His works are far more stylistically conservative than those of his contemporaries<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Williams |first=Edward V. |others=Revised by Christian Troelsgård |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Ethikos, Nikephoros |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09050 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009050 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Gregorios Glykys]]
| {{fl|{{circa|1300}}}}
| Liturgical chants; only a few survive, including a [[sticheron]]
| Had the post of [[domestikos]] (in a musical context meaning "first singer of the left choir")<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Glykys, Gregorios |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11305 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011305 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[John Koukouzelis]]
| {{fl|1300–50}}
| Many chants
| One of the most illustrious musicians of his time; known as the "second source of Greek music" ([[John of Damascus]] being the first)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Williams |first=Edward V. |others=Revised by Christian Troelsgård |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Koukouzeles [Papadopoulos], Joannes |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15428 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000015428 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Xenos Korones]]
| {{fl|1325–50}}
| Chants
| <ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Troelsgård |first=Christian |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Korones, Xenos |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51928 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000051928 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Joannes Glykys]]
| {{fl|Late 13th century}}
| Chant and psalms
| Purportedly the teacher of Korones and Koukouzelis<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Williams |first=Edward V. |others=Revised by Christian Troelsgård |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Glykys, Joannes |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11306 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011306 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[John Kladas]]
| {{fl|1400}}
| Virtually every sacred genre of his time
| He was particularly prolific and his daughter seems to have been a composer as well<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Williams |first=Edward V. |others=Revised by Christian Troelsgård |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Kladas [Lampadarios], Joannes |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15917 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000015917 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=63}}
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| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | Daughter of [[John Kladas]]
| {{fl|1400}}
| A single [[antiphon]] is attributed to her
| Her given name is unknown; recorded only as the daughter of [[John Kladas]]{{sfn|Touliatos-Banker|1984|p=63}}{{sfn|Touliatos|1996|p=1}}
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[John Laskaris (composer)|John Laskaris]]
| {{fl|first half of 15th century}}
| Not particularly prolific;
| Also a music theorist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Conomos |first=Dimitri E. |editor-last=Kazhdan |editor-first=Alexander |year=2005 |orig-year=1991 |encyclopedia=[[Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]] |title=Laskaris, John |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-504652-6 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-3011 }} {{subscription required}}</ref>
|- 
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Manuel Chrysaphes]]
| {{fl|1440–1463}}
| A large amount of hymns, chants, ''kratēmata'', ''mathēmata'' and ''anagrammatismoi'' among others
| An extremely prolific composer; [[John VIII Palaiologos]] and [[Constantine XI Palaiologos]] were patrons of his music.<ref name="Conomos">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Conomos |first=Dimitri E. |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Chrysaphes, Manuel |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05722 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005722 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref>{{refn|He was also a noted music theorist, writing the treatise ''Peri tōn entheōroumenōn tē psaltikē technē kai hōn phronousi kakōs tines peri autōn'' which contains extensive and otherwise unknown information on contemporary Byzantine music, practice and theory.<ref name="Conomos"/>|group=n}}
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | John Vatatzes
| {{fl|mid 15th century}}
|
| Long assumed to be the emperor [[John III Doukas Vatatzes]], though this is no firm evidence for this{{sfn|Velimirović|1978|pp=819–821}}
|-
| style="background-color: #EAECF0" | [[Janus Plousiadenos]]
| {{circa|1429–1500}}
|
| {{sfn|Conomos|1982|pp=2–4}}
|- align=center
| colspan=5 {{n/a|[[Fall of Constantinople]] results in the conquest of the [[Byzantine Empire]] by the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1453<ref name="Britannica"/>}}
|}

==References==
===Notes===
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===Citations===
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===Sources===
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* {{cite journal |last=Conomos |first=Dimitri |date=1982 |title=Experimental Polyphony, 'According to the... Latins', in Late Byzantine Psalmody |journal=[[Early Music History]] |volume=2 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1017/S0261127900002060 |jstor=853760 |s2cid=190692588 }}
* {{cite web |last1=Kalaitzidis |first1=Kyriakos |last2=Apostolopoulos |first2=Thomas |year=n.d. |orig-year=2015 |title=Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Musical Heritage |website=istanbultarihi.ist |publisher=History of Istanbul |url=https://istanbultarihi.ist/596-byzantine-and-post-byzantine-musical-heritage |access-date=23 June 2023 |ref={{sfnRef|Kalaitzidis|Apostolopoulos|2015}} }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Levy |first=Kenneth |others=Revised by Christian Troelsgård |editor-first1=Christian |editor-last1=Troelsgård |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Byzantine Chant |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.04494 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000004494 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
* {{cite book |last=Mellas |first=Andrew |year=2020 |title=Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-108-76736-1 |doi=10.1017/9781108767361 |s2cid=225623021 }}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Patrich |editor-first=Joseph |year=2001 |title=The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present |publisher=[[Peeters (publishing company)|Peeters]] |location=Leuven |url={{google books|plainurl=y|O4pj9YNdgJYC}} |isbn=978-90-429-0976-2 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Touliatos-Banker |first=Diane |date=Spring 1984 |title=Women Composers of Medieval Byzantine Chant |journal=College Music Symposium |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=62–80 |jstor=40374217 }}
* {{cite book |last=Touliatos |first=Diane |editor-last1=Schleifer |editor-first1=Martha Furman |editor-last2=Glickman |editor-first2=Sylvia |editor-link2=Sylvia Glickman |year=1996 |title=Women Composers: Music Through The Ages |publisher=[[G. K. Hall]] |location=New York |volume=1: Composers Born Before 1599 |isbn=978-0-8161-0926-5 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Touliatos |first=Diane |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Byzantine secular music |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48192 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000048192 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
* {{cite book |last1=Velimirović |first1=Miloš |author-link=Miloš Velimirović |editor-last=LaRue |editor-first=Jan |year=1978 |title=Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese |chapter=Two Composers of Byzantine Music: John Vatatzes and John Laskaris |publisher=Pendragon Press |location=New York |pages=818–831 |url=https://archive.org/details/la-rue-1978-aspect-of-medieval-and-renaissance-music |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/la-rue-1978-aspect-of-medieval-and-renaissance-music/page/818/mode/2up }}
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== External links ==
* [https://library.princeton.edu/byzantine/subject-theme/liturgy Digitalized Byzantine Manuscripts (Liturgy)] at the Princeton Music Library
* [https://library.princeton.edu/byzantine/subject-theme/hymns Digitalized Byzantine Manuscripts (Hymns)] at the Princeton Music Library

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