1. Saint Yared was an Aksumite composer in the 6th century.
20 Facts About Yared
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St Yared was from Axum; according to traditional legend, his earlier education dwindled after his father's death, and his mother subsequently sent him to parish priest Abba Gedeon.
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Under his instruction, St Yared completed the alphabet and Psalms.
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At that time St Yared was in poor education and unable to acquire knowledge, which led him severe punishments and mockery at school.
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Aware of his failure, St Yared decided to go on to his uncle's birthplace Medebai Welel.
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St Yared subsequently moved to Saint Mary of Sion for prayer.
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When St Yared was fourteen, Gedeon died; St Yared took his mastering position.
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Yared then returned to Axum at the age of nineteen, becoming the chief priest in the Holy Ark of Sion.
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Yared proclaimed as the greatest poet and the King favored him.
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St Yared became a pioneer in observing Hossana, called Palm Sunday in Axum.
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Yared divided hymns into four parts: winter, summer, autumn and spring.
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St Yared composed ten tones with notations, unlike the European modes consisting of six notes.
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St Yared then developed their arrangements called "Seraye", which signifies hymnary guidelines.
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St Yared consecrated Debre Damo churches founded by Abuna Aregawi.
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One place where St Yared successfully gave mastery is St Qirkos in Lake Tana.
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Pantelewon said that St Yared knew Western tradition and he went to Constantinople once.
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St Yared thought to gather his pupils to teach his musical system after asceticism in monastic life.
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Yared has been said to bequeath musical heir where the practice revolutionised "a genealogy of masters from St Yared in the 6th-century to Aleqa Mersha in the 20th-century".
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Secular teaching argued that St Yared is the base and father of secular music.
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St Yared is regarded by Ethiopian Studies scholars as the founder of qene.