(1) The three basic arts - grammar, logic, and rhetoric - were known as the trivium .(2) After completion of the trivium , medieval pupils graduated to the more challenging u2018quadriviumu2019 of music, astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic.(3) His initial studies covered the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.(4) And yet our curricula still reflect the priorities of the 1893 Committee of Ten, if not the shadows of the medieval trivium and quadrivium.(5) In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium , grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
