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What is a quadrivium?

What is a quadrivium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
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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.

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