The development of European music has always been influenced by the East, which includes Arabia and Turkey in the Near East, later, China and Japan in the Far East. The East as "the other"has had a profound impact on the European "self". The purpose of this essay is to examine how the trade, diplomatic, military encounters between the Europa and the Ottoman Empire have on the development of the European classical music, which imitates elements in foreign cultures that differ from native tradition. To explore the musical characteristics of the Exoticism, three works are discussed here: Lully's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Rameau's Les indes galantes, and Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Not only is the music full of fun and imagination, but the music also project the Europeans' attitude and evaluation of "the East".