Like Sullivan, Herbert also frequently evokes and imitates music from distant places in his operettas. He uses elements of Spanish music in "The Serenade", Italian music in "Naughty Marietta", Austrian music in "The Singing Girl" and Eastern music in "The Wizard of the Nile", "The Idol's Eye", "The Tattooed Man" and other works set in places like Egypt and India. "The Fortune Teller" includes an energetic Hungarian csárdás. He also frequently interpolated Irish-style songs into his operettas which, with the exception of those in "Eileen", rarely advanced the plot.