Music was an important part of both secular and spiritual culture, and in the universities it made up part of <answer>the quadrivium</answer> of the liberal arts. From the early 13th century, the dominant sacred musical form had been the motet; a composition with text in several parts. From the 1330s and onwards, emerged the polyphonic style, which was a more complex fusion of independent voices. Polyphony had been common in the secular music of the Provençal troubadours. Many of these had fallen victim to the 13th-century Albigensian Crusade, but their influence reached the papal court at Avignon.
What is the term for the four subjects that comprised the liberal arts in medieval universities?
the quadrivium