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What is a quadrivium?

What is a quadrivium? Here are some definitions.

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  1. The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
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The trivium and the quadrivium represented the available means of expression.
Arts students studied the trivium, parts of the quadrivium, and an increasingly large amount of Aristotle.
Pacioli's four mathematical disciplines are the antique and medieval quadrivium.
In these last two divisions we have the root of the medival trivium and quadrivium.
Music, the fourth branch of the quadrivium, was zealously cultivated.
In the curriculum of the mediaeval university, astronomy made up with music, arithmetic and geometry the quadrivium.

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