Trebor was a 14th-century composer of

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s, active in

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and other southwest European courts c. 1380-1400. He may be the same person also called Triboll, Trebol, and

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in other contemporaneous sources. His name is likely a reversal of Robert.

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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

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ese conquest of

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in 1388-89 and the reign of

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, the count of

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. His music was well known to

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ese composers of the time, such as

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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 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

*''Passerose de beaute'' *''Helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort''

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