The earlier and generally recognized study of music comes from the works of Pythagoras in ancient Greece, and Pythagorean theory explores in detail the relationship between musical notes and the chord length of string instruments and the length of the air column of wind instruments. relationship between. Although there may not have been the concepts of "liberal arts" and "science" at that time, if examined with modern thinking, music in Bi's eyes does have strong scientific attributes. Plato, the later philosophical sage, mentioned (perhaps conceived by him) ancient Greek elite education in his "The Republic" and "Laws". The general idea is that males should start learning reading and spelling at the age of 10 (to facilitate the absorption of knowledge and develop logic), then learn music (in order to perceive the relationship between different musical sounds and mathematics), and then learn arithmetic (to understand highly abstract concepts such as numbers and mathematics). concepts) and geometry (to make abstract numbers concrete), and finally astronomy (to understand the ideal order organized by mathematical laws). According to Plato's educational philosophy, the role of music is to connect sensibility and reason, "liberal arts" and "music has been regarded as a science for a long time in the ancient and medieval Western world. Pythagoras was the first to use proportions to measure musical intervals, and later in the Seventh Century in the Middle Ages Music is also classified into the four arts of science and measurement. But is music really a complete science? No matter how you look at it, music history and music ethnology are both liberal arts, but they are also applied to some science subjects. Commonly used analysis methods, such as data analysis by computers. As for composition and performance, are they considered science? Although they are not musicology, they are also part of music. I think this question is a bit subtle. First, music refers to music. Learning is still music in a broad sense. Second, why must we divide arts and sciences? In the past, some people have realized that it was not entirely correct to regard music as a science in ancient times and the Middle Ages. We need to return to the flawed understanding of the past.