Trebor was a 14th-century
composer
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of
polyphonic
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chanson
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s, active in
Navarre
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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 possibly an
anadrome
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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. Some of his pieces explicitly reference historical events such as the
Aragon
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ese 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
Avignon
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ese 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
sustained chords, the former of which is one of the hallmark devices of ''ars subtilior''.
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
Notes
References
*
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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