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[email protected]. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Copyright 1984 by the Learning, Memory, and Cognition American Psychological Association, Inc. 1984, Vol. 10, No. 3, 496-512 Organization in Memory for Familiar Songs Andrea R. Halpern Stanford University and Bucknell University The organizing principles in memory for familiar songs were investigated in two experiments. The hypothesis was that we do not store and remember each song in isolation. Rather, there exists a rich system of relationships among tunes that can be revealed through similarity rating studies and memory tasks. One initial assumption was the. division of relations among tunes into musical (tempo, rhythm, etc,) and nonmusical similarity. In the first experiment, subjects were asked: to sort 60 familiar tunes into groups according to both musical and nonmusical criteria.