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I place as a prior condition [to liberty] the education of the people, that by
means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and
make itself worthy of these liberties. I have recommended in my writings the study of
civic virtues, without which there is no redemption.
José Rizal (1861-1896) was a national hero of the Philippines and the first
Asian nationalist. He expressed the growing national consciousness of
many Filipinos who opposed Spanish colonial tyranny and aspired to
attain democratic rights
The music and musical life of the Filipinos from 1870 to 1930s was a period
when Filipino musicians from different social and economic environments
reached a common consciousness of a music as an artform and as a distinct
form of human expression. Filipino musicians began to express individual as well
as collective sentiments, using related, if not common forms