Write a brief essay outlining the mid-nineteenth-century debate over nationality between the ...

nativist view:
that there should evolve a distinctively American music, developing a life of its own not in the shadow of European tradition, together with an audience to appreciate and support such music
an idealistic desire to express the national, the specific
the belief that music should express this place and this time

expatriates' view (or the critics' view):
a reverential attitude toward European masters (mainly Germanic)
an idealistic dedication to the cosmopolitan, the universal
the belief that music should transcend place and time