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Musical
composition
incorporates
core
elements
of
Goethe
and
Auden
(5)
Musical composition incorporates core elements of Goethe and Auden (5)
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How the clue works
The definition is Musical composition — you're looking for ETUDE. "Core elements" tells you to pull the middle letters out of each name: the heart of GoEThe gives you ET, and the centre of AUDEn gives you UDE, and those two bits stuck together do the job nicely.