Borlet was a 14th- and 15th-century composer whose life we know extremely little about. It is thought that his name is an
anagram of Trebol, a French composer who served
Martin of Aragon
Martin the Humane (29 July 1356 – 31 May 1410), also called the Elder and the Ecclesiastic, was King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica and Count of Barcelona from 1396 and King of Sicily from 1409 (as Martin II). He failed to secure ...
in 1409 at the same time as
Gacian Reyneau and other composers in the
Codex Chantilly
The Chantilly Codex (''Chantilly, Musée Condé MS 564'') is a manuscript of medieval music containing pieces from the style known as the ''Ars subtilior''. It is held in the museum at the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise.
Most of the co ...
.
If this Trebol is the same as
Trebor then he has six surviving compositions. If not then he is only known for his
virelai
A ''virelai'' is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music. It is one of the three ''formes fixes'' (the others were the ballade and the rondeau) and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the lat ...
'He tres doulz roussignol' and its variation 'Ma tre dol rosignol', which is also a virelai.
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See also
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Trebor
References
Further reading
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* French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950 .
* Fuller, Sarah. The European Musical Heritage 800-1750, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 .
* Besseler, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', ''
Archiv für Musikwissenschaft
The ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'' is a quarterly German-English-speaking trade magazine devoted to music history and historical musicology, which publishes articles by well-known academics and young scholars.
It was founded in 1918 as the s ...
'', VII (1925): 167-252 ( Hé, tres doulz roussignol joly; Roussignolet du bois, dounés).
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Günther, Ursula. 'Der Gebrauch des tempus perfectum diminutum in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960): 277-297, p. 297 ( Hé, tres doulz roussignol joly; Roussignolet du bois, dounés).
* Newes, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59 ( Ma trédol rosignol joly; Aluette cryante apprés li rysignol; Rosignolin del bos jolin)
* LeClercq, Fernand 'Questions à propos d'un fragment récemment découvert d'une chanson du XIV siècle: une autre version de "Par maintes fois"' Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, , ( Hé, tres doulz roussignol joly; Roussignolet du bois, dounés).
* Besseler, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.
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* Fischer, Kurt von. 'Ein neues Trecentofragment', Festschrift für
Walter Wiora, edited by L. Finscher & C. H. Mahling, Basel and New York: Bärenreiter, 1968, , .
* Hasselman, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley): 1970, .
* Newes, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, .
Ars subtilior composers
French classical composers
French male classical composers
14th-century French composers
15th-century French composers
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