The Renaixença (rebirth), the revival of Catalan culture that began in the second half of the 19th century, brought more Gothic forms into the Catalan "national" style that aimed to combine nationalism and cosmopolitanism while at the same time integrating into the European modernizing movement.
Like Emerson's early essays, it inaugurates a national style.
Russians solve problems when they reach a critical point – this is the national style.
"Russians solve problems when they reach a critical point — that is our national style.
But singing in Italian, German and French, they were not grounded in any national style.
Primakov, a Juilliard graduate, is making a strikingly personal adaptation of the brawny Russian national style.
A characteristically national style of music is emerging out of this diversity, as reflected in the music heard in Khartoum.
The ability of the King to form a strong "national" style was exhibited particularly in the field of architecture.
Postulating a national style in music is as useful, and as limiting, as postulating a national style of dress, manners or cuisine: it lays out guidelines that can degenerate into stereotype.
