Trebor was a 14th-century
composer of
polyphonic chanson
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s, active in
Navarre and other
southwest European courts c. 1380-1400. He may be the same person also called Triboll, Trebol, and
Borlet in other contemporaneous sources. His name is likely a reversal of Robert.
Music
His compositions are associated with the style known as ''
ars subtilior'', and six of his works survive in one of the most important surviving manuscripts of ''ars subtilior'' music, the
Chantilly Codex
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 ...
. Some of his pieces explicitly reference historical events such as the
Aragonese conquest of
Sardinia
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in 1388-89 and the reign of
Gaston Febus, the count of
Foix
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. His music was well known to
Avignonese composers of the time, such as
Grimace and
F. Andrieu, who quoted some of his pieces in their works. He is noted for his use of
displacement syncopation and
sustain
In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time. It may relate to elements such as amplitude (volume), frequencies (with the use of filters) or pitch. For example, a piano key, when struck and held, creates a near-immedi ...
ed chords, the former of which is one of the hallmark devices of late 14th-century French musical style.
The compositions attributed to Trebor, most of them in the Chantilly Codex, are:
*''En seumeillant m’avint une vision''
*''Se July Cesar, Rolant et roy Artus''
*
*''Quant joyne cuer en may est amoureux''
*''He, tres doulz roussignol joly'' – also attributed to
Borlet
*''Passerose de beaute''
*''Helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort''
See also
*
Borlet
Further reading
*
French classical composers
French male classical composers
Ars subtilior composers
14th-century French composers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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