| Music, the fourth branch of the quadrivium, was zealously cultivated. |
| The trivium and the quadrivium represented the available means of expression. |
| In the curriculum of the mediaeval university, astronomy made up with music, arithmetic and geometry the quadrivium. |
| Pacioli's four mathematical disciplines are the antique and medieval quadrivium. |
| Music was an important part of both secular and spiritual culture, and in the universities it made up part of the quadrivium of the liberal arts. |
| In these last two divisions we have the root of the medival trivium and quadrivium. |