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This memo gives a series of experiments which one can use to get a better understanding of how music works and how music is apprehended by an active and knowing listener. It does so by using the children's computer language, LOGO, and capitalizes on the use of procedural thinking and other programming concepts (for example, the use of variables) in the designing and analysis of melody and rhythm.
