Music 1649A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quadrivium, Music Theory
4 Nov 2015
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Music theory i mus1649 lecture #1. September 10th introduction to the course (theoretical foundations in music. The seven liberal arts: a term given to an education based on classical antiquity. It is meant to be a practical education which develops mental capacity: the seven liberal arts were taught in two groups: the trivium and the quadrivium, trivium, grammar, dialectic (logic, rhetoric, quadrivium, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music. Transmission of the classical legacy boethius (ca. 480-524: boethius was a philosopher of the early 6th century.
