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Resource: Arithmetic of the soul
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Author: Cavanaugh, J. P.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Magazine
URL: http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0298web/math.html
Year: 1998
Description: This article by J.P. Cavanaugh discusses how music was once viewed not as emotional, but as mathematical. In the wisdom of Ancient Greek philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle, music was not solely a matter of artistic, divine, or romantic expression. Music was math. Following that theory, later philosophers named the "quadrivium" of mathematical arts: Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and Music.

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