Orientalism is also traceable in music that is considered to have effects of exoticism, including the japonisme in Claude Debussy's piano music all the way to the sitar being used in recordings by The Beatles.

It is a prime example of the exoticism that was an alternative to more classicising mainstream taste in the Regency style.

His opera-ballet La caravane du Caire, with modest turquerie exoticism in harp and triangle accompaniment, is a rescue adventure along the lines of Die Entführung aus dem Serail ; premiered at Fontainebleau in 1783, it remained in the French repertory for fifty years.

The wide popularity of Japanese kawaii is often credited with it being “ culturally odorless .” The elimination of exoticism and national branding has helped kawaii to reach numerous target audiences and to span every culture, class, and gender group.

" One survival of the herbal exoticism that once characterized the patent medicine industry is the marketing of shampoos, which are often promoted as containing perfumes such as vetiver or ylang-ylang, and foods such as mangoes, bananas, or honey ; consumers are urged to put these ingredients in their hair despite lack of any evidence that these ingredients do anything other than make the hair smell like the ingredients.

( I ) n Vienna the musical exoticism that had played so well elsewhere ran head-on into the political crisis engendered by the Liberals ’ recent loss of power .” It is likely that this was the main reason that the established, elite Vienna Philharmonic did not premiere Dvořák ’ s Symphony No. 6.

Kidman's exoticism, encapsulated by her peasant-chic wardrobe, is fresh air in St Albans.

The ballet's literary source is Le Roman de la Momie by Théophile Gautier, the exponent of literary exoticism which offered all sorts of romantic expedients: the passionate love story of the great priest's daughter Tahoser and the Pharaoh set in a Biblical Egypt which, however, disappeared in the ballet, and the Gothic taste for gloomy corridors and dark tombs.

In keeping with colonial construction of exoticism in Western literature, however, " otherness " is increasingly domesticated as characters recognise, with greater exposure to the country, links to Western culture.

Beaumont makes fun of the new demand for stories of the middle classes for the middle classes, even as he makes fun of that class's actual taste for an exoticism and a chivalry that is entirely hyperbolic.

Notable, too, is that the British, in fact Europeans generally, had long nurtured a taste for the aesthetic exuberance of such “ Asian exoticism ” design, as displayed in innovative Indo-Saracenic style and also in their taste for Chinoiserie and Japanned.

Jonathan Bellman writes that " the Kinks use of eastern musical influences to allude to personal and sexual matters is directly in keeping with historical uses of exoticism as signifier for forbidden sexuality.

Brown comments that the author of Matthew probably didn't have a specific location in mind and the phrase " from the east " is for literary effect and added exoticism.

The book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism.

In music, exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times ( e. g. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra, Debussy's Syrinx for Flute Solo or Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol ).

While exoticism is closely linked to Orientalism, it is not a movement necessarily associated with a particular time period or culture.

Brahms was also attracted to the exoticism of Hungarian folk music, and used it in such pieces as his famous ' Hungarian Dances ', the final movement of his Violin Concerto, and the ' Rondo alla zingarese ' from his Piano Quartet No. 1, op.

His previous works, such as the Moravian Duets, Slavonic Dances and Slavonic Rhapsody were popular in many other countries in Europe at least in part for their “ exoticism .” But the climate in Vienna was becoming quite unwelcoming of any compositions that issued from non-Germanic roots, especially those works with obvious references to other nationalities ( such as the Furiant in Symphony no.

He had previously satirized the exoticism and emptiness of the English public's love of prima donna singers and castrati, but in 1737, he adapted The Dragon of Wantley from a Lincolnshire folk ballad into a full mock-opera.

Note that in Ravel's days in Paris gypsy / gitan / tsigane / tzigane did not so much refer to the Roma ( Gypsy ) people in any strict sense: the " gypsy " style of the work was rather a kind of popular musical exoticism, comparable to the Spanish exoticism in Wagner's day ( compare Emmanuel Chabrier's España ), or the Janissary exoticism in Mozart's day ( Rondo alla Turca ).

Delacroix followed up with Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1827 ), commemorating a siege of the previous year, and the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by Lord Byron, which although set in antiquity has been credited with beginning the mixture of sex, violence, lassitude and exoticism which runs through much French Orientalist painting.

* Samarkand can appear as an archetype of romantic exoticism, notably in the work by James Elroy Flecker: The Golden Journey to Samarkand ( 1913 ).

Pleasant Classical Institution, a boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he met a fellow student, Constantine Fondolaik, a Smyrna Greek whose parents had been massacred by Turks. Plymouth Church in 1866 The sensational poet Lord Byron was the ultimate in romantic ideals of the day, having died of fever fighting for Greek independence against Turkey, and Beecher saw that exoticism, as well all the romantic passion that his family frowned on, embodied in Fondolaik.

Rolling Stone gave the album a mixed review, saying that though the transition to shorter songs generally works, the lyrics are " a wan and ridiculous rehash of the bargain-basement exoticism employed by the British art-rock crowd.

Some level of exoticism and mystery in the contents of the preparation was deemed desirable by their promoters.

But, whereas Japan's traditional engagement with Chinese civilization was conducted in terms of a unilateral debate, now Japanese scholars and thinkers could read directly what Westerners, themselves fascinated by the ' exoticism ' of Japanese culture, said and wrote of them.

The invitation " Come with me to the Casbah ," which was heard in trailers for Algiers but not in the film itself, became an exaggerated romantic overture promising exoticism and mystery, largely owing to its use by Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew, himself a spoof of Pépé le Moko.

Supported by the imagination of skilled artisans of various disciplines, exoticism promulgated itself across a broad demographic of British, European and Americas ’ citizenry, Adaptation of such design innovations spilled over into and determined the aesthetic direction of major architectural projects, expressing themselves in the Baroque, Regency and design periods beyond.

Today, that spread of elaborate Asian exoticism design fulfillment remains evidenced in many residential and governmental edifices wrought of the masterpiece initiatives of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries ; much had initially been contributed by the stupendously rich and indulgent sea-merchant Venetian Empire, whose existence spanned nearly a millennium, and whose Gothic architecture came to incorporate a plethora of Asian exoticism elements, such as the Moorish Arch in its windows, related to the latter " harem window "

The English landscape garden was already well-established in England in the first part of the 18th century, influenced by the travel to Italy by the British upper class and their desire to have a new style of garden to match the Palladian style of architecture they chose for their country houses, and by the romantic landscapes of Claude Lorraine and other painters, but the novelty and exoticism of Chinese art and architecture in Europe led in 1738 to the construction of the first Chinese house in an English garden, at Stowe House, alongside Roman temples, Gothic ruins and other architectural styles.

" Scholar Alden Jones defines exoticism in art and literature as the representation of one culture for consumption by another.

The explorations of the New World and the first encounters with American Indians also brought a new theme into French and European Literature ; exoticism, and the idea of the Noble Savage, which inspired such works as Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

French romanticism used forms such as the historical novel, the romance, the " roman noir " or Gothic novel ; subjects like traditional myths ( including the myth of the romantic hero ), nationalism, the natural world ( i. e. elegies by lakes ), and the common man ; and the styles of lyricism, sentimentalism, exoticism and orientalism.

An important early film to move beyond the concept of the scenic was In the Land of the Head Hunters ( 1914 ), which embraced primitivism and exoticism in a staged story presented as truthful re-enactments of the life of Native Americans.

Numerous other works have left their mark on the Brontës ; namely the Thousand and One Nights for example, which inspired Jinn in which they became themselves in the centre of their kingdoms, while adding a touch of exoticism.

* Louis II beats the Saracen invaders in Italy.

But southern Burgundy was pillaged by the Saracen invasion of the 8th century, and when Charles Martel had driven the invaders out, he divided Burgundy into four commands: Arles-Burgundy, Vienne-Burgundy, Alamanic Burgundy, and Frankish Burgundy.

Tradition has it that Digenis Akritas's hand gripped the mountain to get out of the sea when he came to free Cyprus from its Saracen invaders, and this is his handprint.

There is a story which relates that the first De Marisco, who resided here, was a Norman knight who had travelled to the Holy Land to take part in a Crusade against the Saracen invaders.

He returns to earth and gains Senapo's aid in the defense of Paris from the Saracen invaders.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber.

The new naval base is funded by the Puntland administration in conjunction with Saracen International, a UK-based security company.

A defensive wall, commissioned by Pope Leo IV, is built around what came to be called the Leonine City as a defensive response to the Saracen desecration of Rome in 846.

Wolfram von Eschenbach tied the history of Prester John to the Holy Grail legend in his poem Parzival, in which the Prester is the son of the Grail maiden and the Saracen knight Feirefiz.

Hubert is one of the possible de Burgh's that received the coat of arms ; it is said that Richard I dipped his finger in the blood of a slain Saracen king, put a red cross on the gold shield of de Burgh, and said " for your bravery this will be your crest ".

Once the main marketplace of the city, it is currently the site of the Giostra del Saracino (" Joust of the Saracen ").

* Arezzo is home to an annual medieval festival called the Saracen Joust ( Giostra del Saracino ).

Pine Bluff is home to a number of creeks, streams, bayous ( Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world and is the second most diverse stream in the United States ), and larger bodies of water such as Lake Saracen, Lake Langhofer ( Slack Water Harbor ) and the Arkansas River.

It was adapted and modified throughout the Middle Ages, including an influential Latin prose version Historia Caroli Magni ( also known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle ), which also includes Roland's battle with a Saracen giant named Ferracutus who is only vulnerable at his navel ( the story was later adapted in the anonymous Franco-Venetian epic L ' Entrée d ' Espagne ( c. 1320 ) and in the 14th century Italian epic La Spagna ( attributed to the Florentine Sostegno di Zanobi and likely composed between 1350 – 1360 ).

( Episode 1. 5 – " The Outsider "); The Devil Wears Prada ( Although it is uncredited an instrumental version of the song is played at nearly every pivotal moment in the film, as well as during the end credits ); One Tree Hill ( Episode 1. 17-" Spirit in the Night "); Duane Hopwood ; Friday Night Lights ( TV Series ) – song provides inspirational back-drop in scene where back-up Matt Saracen takes the field and excels

The action takes place against the background of the war between Charlemagne's Christian paladins and the Saracen army that is attempting to invade Europe.

In the Chanson de Simon Pouille, written before 1235, a Saracen idol is called Bafumetz.

The site of the old town is about 250 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers.

Together with Richard Lester's offbeat 1976 film Robin and Marian, Robin of Sherwood is one of the most influential treatments of the core Robin Hood legend since The Adventures of Robin Hood, featuring a realistic period setting and introducing the character of a Saracen outlaw.

* Sarak ( Valentine Pelka ) A Saracen with a scarred face hidden by a mask, he is the right-hand man of Philip Mark and bears a grudge against Nasir, who scarred him.

Taken away at birth, Maugis is raised by the fairy Oriande while Vivien is raised by Esclarmonde ( wife of the Saracen Sorgalant, ruler of Monbranc ).