These arts were divided into trivium ( which included rhetoric, idioms, vocabulary and etymology ) and quadrivium : arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
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In the Renaissance, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy became an extra syllabus expected of the Renaissance man such as Leon Battista Alberti.
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Alcuin led this effort and was responsible for the writing of textbooks, creation of word lists, and establishing the trivium and quadrivium as the basis for education.
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The people were associated with the " studia humanitatis ", a novel curriculum that was competing with the " quadrivium " and scholastic logic.
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According to his own account, he continued his education at Durham, learning the trivium and quadrivium, with Virgil, Plato and Plotinus among his favourite authors.
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The consequence of this centralisation of knowledge was that they initially controlled both public administration and education, where the miniatures are examples of the practical application of quadrivium subjects.
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His work " The Principles of Music " ( better-known under the title " Quadrivium " was used to understand dissonance and consonance in music.
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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.
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The name of the place called " le Qu�roy " comes from the Latin " quadrivium " meaning " crossroads " which probably indicated two old roads.
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Originally, there was the trivium, which consisted of grammar, logic and rhetoric; and the quadrivium, which consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
