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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00200000000000000000">
Internals - how it works</A>
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This chapter explains how MusE is built internally, and is meant
to be an aid for developers wanting to quickly start up with MusE.
For details on <SPAN  CLASS="textit">why</SPAN> stuff is done please refer to the following
chapter.

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