About Us

About Us

The name, “U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology, “ is an outcome of its former appellation, the “U.P. Ethnomusicology Archives”, established in June 16, 1997 by the U.P. Board of Regents which recognized Professor Jose Maceda’s ethnomusicological collection of about 2500 hours of recorded music in open reel and cassette tapes, field notes, music notations, song texts, photographs, music instruments, music compositions, personal files, about 2000 books and journals as his original work and authorship.

Aims and Functions

The Center and its collection have been developed and established to assist scholars (representing disciplines in the humanities and social sciences), composers, and serious artists and pedagogues in music, who share the vision and goals of the Center to:

1. to develop, organize, manage and conduct music research with focus on the development of new theories of music, composition, distribution of musical instruments, and recognition of fundamentals that bind together the musics of Asia, as well as the relationship of language to musical structures;

2. to serve as source of producing research and educational materials and to house musical instruments;

3. to publish and openly disseminate research of the Center;

4. to conduct dialogues, trainings, conferences, and other fora related to its primary functions; and

5. to obtain and manage funds contributed by public and private persons and entities.