Trebor
Trebor was a 14th-century composer of polyphonic chansons, active in Navarre and other southwest European courts c. He may be the same person also called Triboll, Trebol, and Borlet in other contemporaneous sources. His name is possibly an anadrome of Robert.
Trebor
- Born
- 1400
- Died
- 1409
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- chanson
- Movements
- classical music
- Languages
- French
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Trebor was a 14th-century composer of polyphonic chansons, active in Navarre and other southwest European courts c. He may be the same person also called Triboll, Trebol, and Borlet in other contemporaneous sources. His name is possibly an anadrome of Robert.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Trebor. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1775599
In this article
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 Aragonese conquest of Sardinia in 1388-89 and the reign of Gaston Febus, the count of Foix. 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 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
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,108 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Trayko ProkopievPerson
- Tré CoolPerson
- TreachPerson
- Treat WilliamsPerson
- Trekky RecordsOrganisation
- Trent LottPerson
- Trent ReznorPerson
- TrentemøllerTerminology
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Trebor?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.