"Gruesomely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we call music.[12] The example of a loud tone with gradually ascending inflections has only been found in the most perverted types of humanity; for instance, an English writer quaintly alludes to the songs of the Polynesian cannibals as consisting of "gruesomely suggestive passages of rising quarter-tones sung gloatingly before their living captives who are soon to ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell |
