Which two sentences In the excerpt suggest that Policles loved quality music?
The Contest
by Arthur Conan Doyle (adapted excerpt)
The blue-clad player struck several chords upon his lyre, and then burst suddenly out Into the "Ode of Niobe," and Policles
bench and gazed at the stage In amazement. The tune demanded a rapid transition from a low note to a high,
sat straight up on his
and had been purposely chosen
for this reason. The low note was a grunting, rumble, the deep discordant growling of an ill-conditioned dog. Then suddenly the singer threw
up his face, straightened his figure, rose upon
his tiptoes, and with wagging head and scarlet cheeks emitted a howl. All the while the lyre
twanged and thrummed, sometimes in front of and sometimes behind the volce of the
singer. But what amazed Policles most of all was the
Many effect of this performance upon the audience. Every Greek was a trained critic, and as unsparing In his hisses as he was lavish in his applause.
singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven from the platform, but now, as the man stopped and wiped the abundant sweat
from his face, the whole assembly burst Into a delirium of appreciation. The shepherd
held his hands to his bursting head and felt that his
reason must be leaving him, for It was surely a dreadful musical nightmare, and he would wake
figures were real,
soon and laugh at the remembrance. But no, the
the faces were those of his nelghbours; and the cheers which resounded In his ears were Indeed
the theatre of Olympla. The whole
benches, while every now and
chorus was in
full blast, the hummers humming, the shouters bellowing, the tappers from an audlence which filled
hard at work upon the
then came a musical cyclone of "Incomparable! Divine!" from the trained phalanx who Intoned their applause,
this were allowed to pass, there was an end of all musical justice in their united voices sweeping over the tumult as the drone of the wind dominates the roar of the sea. It was madness-Insufferable madnesst if
greece Policles consclence would not permit him to be still. Standing upon
his bench with waving hands and up ralsed volce. he protested with all the strgngth .of his lungs against the mad judgment of the audience.
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