The "seven arts" of classical courses in British universities are grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. "Seven Arts" is a relic of ancient Roman schools, but the "Seven Arts" courses in the Middle Ages are all covered with a strong religious coat.

The so-called Seven Arts in ancient Greece include trivium and quadrivium. The former refers to grammar, rhetoric and logic, while the latter includes arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The two are combined together, referred to as "seven liberal arts". This is a compulsory course in medieval missionary schools.

The origin of "Seven Arts" can be traced back to ancient Greece. Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, divided subjects into two categories: primary and advanced according to the principle of "exercising with gymnastics and cultivating the mind with music".

Primary school physical education class includes games and several sports; In addition to music and dance in a narrow sense, music in primary school subjects also includes cultural subjects such as reading, writing and arithmetic. Advanced subjects mainly include arithmetic, geometry, music theory and astronomy.