quadrivium

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Herschel believed that music belonged as one of the four liberal arts of the quadrivium, alongside arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2022

This Pythagorean view re-emerged in medieval universities, where scholars studied the quadrivium, which divided the science of mathematics into four parts: geometry and arithmetic, astronomy and music.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2010

The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

But to many this appears too much like a reversion to the viewpoint of the mediæval convent schools which classed music in the quadrivium along with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul

In the second part which begins with "Geometry and Arithmetic" it is set down that the knowledges of the quadrivium have a truth of their own.

From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Norton, Arthur Orlo