[From the first paragraph onwards:]

It was almost entirely due to the taste for the "exotic" that the art of the nineteenth century came to display a focus on colour and technique unknown before. If colour and attention to detail do indeed "abound in all aspects of Oriental life", then these are precisely the qualities that one must look for in art which is inspired by the Orient (Freeman et al. 1990: 25) ... [and it] was as a direct consequence of the nineteenth-century penchant for exotic and "Oriental" art that "programmatic" or descriptive forms of expression rose to new heights. ...
Indeed, musical Orientalism can be said to have played a major role in revitalizing a variety of musical parameters - formal, harmonic and metrical - but especially instrumental "colour".