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"National schools within the Romanticism" is the term to define the art of music referred to the national influences which effected composers and artist during a period roughly dated between the whole 19th and the early 20th century. Before this period styles and genres were not particularly assigned to a single country, they were "internationals". After the "Napoleonic Wars" in Europe, countries struggled to gain independence. National identity was the main point that inspired movements, …

…European music, such as in "Choros Nos. 1-14. The Mexican Chavez's works are characterized by a mixture of strong Mexican's indigenous rhythms (sometimes using historically researched instruments) and European's traditional genres. The North American continent music embraced the mixture of the several different European cultures which settled (and were still settling) there. Traditional European hymns, palms and musical instruments, along with Afro-American melodies, have been the basic fundaments of the later pure American's music styles.