Trebor (composer)

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Trebor was a 14th-century composer of polyphonic chansons who worked in Navarre and other southwest European courts around 1380–1400. He may be the same person as Triboll, Trebol, or Borlet in other sources, and his name might be an anagram of Robert. He wrote in the ars subtilior style, and six of his pieces survive, mostly in the Chantilly Codex, a major manuscript of ars subtilior music. Some works reference events such as the Aragonese conquest of Sardinia (1388–89) and the reign of Gaston Febus, count of Foix. His music was familiar to Avignonese composers like Grimace and F. Andrieu, who quoted his pieces. Trebor is noted for displacement syncopation and sustained chords, the former being a hallmark device of ars subtilior.