Importing music into FCE

Hi,
I think this should be simple but I couldn't find an answer in the forum...I've used iMovie to make little videos and easily dropped in music from my itunes folder. I decided to upgrade to FCE and can't seem to do this simple operation. Please forgive the simple question...can someone help?
thanks

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