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SE06 EP14 - Liberal Arts and Fine Arts: Understanding the Trivium, Quadrivium, and the Place of Music in Catholic Education - with Mark Langley

Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast

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Exploring the Interplay of Liberal Arts and Fine Arts

This chapter delves into the distinctions between liberal arts, servile arts, and fine arts, highlighting the essence of 'making' within each discipline. It emphasizes the role of liberal arts in understanding truth and fine arts in creating beauty, using examples from various fields like grammar, rhetoric, geometry, and astronomy. The discussion also touches on the importance of music as a liberal art in understanding the order in music and as a fine art in producing beautiful music, connecting music to the order of nature and the well-ordered soul.

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