One of the requirements of the project was to make connections with the National Education (NE) Program, which aimed to develop national cohesion through a shared sense of nationhood, and was described as “an exercise to develop instincts that become part of the psyche of every child” (Goh, 1996). The Project made direct links to the NE program by selecting a Singapore-Nanyin piece with lyrics describing the nation as “Garden of the East”. During the music lessons, children learned about the work of a Singaporean Chinese businessman who composed hundreds of Nanyin lyrics, which were made into songs by a Nanyin musician. The children were encouraged to value their cultural heritage in a predominantly immigrant society. They learned about the difficult journey taken by a music association to establish Nanyin in a foreign land, and how it preserves, promotes, extends and passes on this ancient musical heritage to Singaporeans today. In addition, the children transcribed the national anthem using traditional Nanyin notation, learned to sing the anthem using Nanyin pitch-names, and composed a tune using Nanyin notation.