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Didascalicon, Book II: the sciences, their parts and their discipline
Hugh of St Victor · Didascalicon de studio legendi
Translated from the Latin into English by machine.
Section 9 of 30
Chapter IX. On music
Music took its name from
moys
, that is, water, because no euphony, that is, good sonority, can be made without moisture.
← Chapter VIII. On arithmetic
Next: Chapter X. On geometry →
