Boethius seems to have been the first to use the term quadrivium, joining music with the mathematical arts of arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. From Wordnik.com. [MUSICAL GENIUS] Reference
B1 is thus the earliest text to identify the set of sciences that became known as the quadrivium in the middle ages and that constitute four of the seven liberal arts. From Wordnik.com. [Archytas] Reference
These four subjects make up the quadrivium, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
The arts of the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) and those of the quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Thomas Aquinas] Reference
I'd never heard of "liberal arts education" except in terms of the trivium and quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [Basketweaving Interviews] Reference
Candidates for masters 'degrees went on to study the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Essay] Reference
For them, edu - cation centered, not in philosophy or theology, but in the liberal arts, the trivium and quadrivium of the. From Wordnik.com. [EDUCATION] Reference
Gerbert wrote a series of works dealing with matters of the quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [Biblical Evidence for Catholicism] Reference
The first three of these books are taken up with the trivium and quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
+ The first three of these books are taken up with the trivium and quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The first figure in the representation of the quadrivium is Music, with Tubal Cain beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference
Spain, the trivium and quadrivium were taught by a body of learned men, among whom was the archbishop, Leander. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
It covered everything contained in the trivium and quadrivium of the Middle Ages; it was an encyclopedic faculty. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
After that, more or less of the quadrivium was given, together with advanced courses covering the ground of the trivium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Hugo, "physicus excellens qui quadrivium docuit", and it is to be assumed that this science was included in his teaching. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Contrasted with them we find the mathematical disciplines as artes quadriviales, or quadrivium, or a road with four branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
(see O 'Meara 1989), particularly under the influence of Nicomachus' earlier treatment of Pythagorean work in the quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
Hence the names trivium and quadrivium, because here the robust mind progresses as if upon roads or paths to the secrets of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
At the age of five his education began at Liège, where he spent eleven years mastering the difficulties of the trivium and quadrivium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
What was the quadrivium?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » What Kinds of Girls Are Upper Tier Colleges Looking For?] Reference
Liek quadrivium, the next set of lernin. From Wordnik.com. [Meow-mix - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Trivium and quadrivium, 73. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu-Arabic Numerals] Reference
Logic, and Rhetoric; the quadrivium, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"trivium" of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the "quadrivium" of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Humanistic instruction comprised grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (trivium and quadrivium). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
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