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5 3.00 / 2 Paper Topic:  Nationalism and Exoticism  Nationalism
and Exoticism  During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ,
Nationalism and Exoticism were two contrasting ideas that went
beyond musical styles Basically , Nationalism , as the name
implies , is the use of motifs or musical ideas that are
associated with or represent a particular country , ethnicity or
region (Internet Modern History Sourcebook , 2008 Examples of
musical nationalism include folk melodies , folk tunes , and
other harmonies and rhythms (Stolba , 1990  The advocates of
this style of music were establishing a sense of identity and
were also used it as a very strong political  weapon against
unfavorable leaders in countries that were experiencing
revolutionary changes (W . W . Norton and Company , 2008 . The
popular nationalistic composers include Mikhail Glinka ofRussia
, who composed A Life for The Tsar Edward Grieg of Norway , who
produced the piano piece Peer Gyn