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Western European music is the framework of what we understand as music. It is comforting, it is an old friend, it encompasses the rules by which we composers strive to break, it is "serious" music. Over the years that I studied under Roque Cordero, he drilled into my head all about "serious" music. "All you need to know is here", as he pointed to Beethoven's 3rd symphony or a piano piece by Schumann or a Webern tone row. Indeed it is...