The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SONATA
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More clues leading to the result SONATA
- Piece of music: performing in it will get cheers
- Composition offering some jingles on a tambourine
- A dance’s spinning around in need of good piece of music
- Piece of music with a beat bigger than usual coming up
- Some tracks on a tape and a work by Mozart?
- Moonlight, say, in streaks on a tableau
- Composition out of season at Aldeburgh
- Moonlight, for example, in which boy’s regularly astray
- Composition for soprano working with Australian tenor and alto
- Some tourists on a tack. Pastoral perhaps
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The straight part
We know that "Piece of music" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case piece of music = sonata.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does SONATA mean?
SONATA noun- A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.