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A Case for ‘Bayan Ko’ as Philippine National Anthem
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo (top left) commissioned Julian Felipe (top right) the official Philippine National Anthem in 1898.
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Two years prior to that, Andres Bonifacio (lower left) commissioned Julio Nakpil a different national anthem titled Marangal na Dalit ng Katagalugan. Why didn't any of these men consider the kundiman song form for a national anthem?
In the late 1800s, just before independence from Spain was declared, a nationalistic fervor was approaching boiling point in the Philippines.
This sentiment was manifested through the popular song form of the era – the kundiman, the traditional Filipino love song par excellence.
If you think about it, kundiman, a song of admiration and longing for a woman’s love, is naturally translatable to declarations of love to the mother country.
And that precisely was what the composers of the time did. The kundiman branched out from love songs to nationali