To study, promote and develop
Philippine music and heighten the Filipinos’ sense of cultural identity
- The make the Filipinos aware of the beauty,
richness, diversity, vast potentials and achievements of their own musical cultures
- To encourage musical ideas and practices
that are socially constructive and in consonance with the needs, aspirations and strengths
of the Filipino people
- To cultivate music as a force for national
unity and well-being
- To advance the role of music as an
instrument for understanding the Filipino psyche, culture and society
- To recognize and affirm the Southeast Asian
basis of Philippine music and its links with other Asian musical traditions
- To hasten the growth of Philippine music as
a creative contribution to world music
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