sentences:  He declared that
  
  "After all the excesses and experiments, it appears today to be the job of music of our time to lead music back to a higher form of society, to lead it back from the private to the universal"  
  
  The Conference aimed to offer solutions to what participants saw a crisis in modern music.Problems were summed up under three headings
  
  The Prague Manifesto offered a set of principles for composers, which involved avoiding extreme subjectivism and allying themselves more closely with their national cultures.It also called for composers to focus on music that could have concrete content, such as opera, oratorio, and songs.