Musical technique in 20th-century song cycles (4)

Times Cryptic #29439 | 5 Down | 2026-01-14
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

This must be SCAT where the first letter cycles to the end. Another cunning bit of w/p where you need to lift and separate between “Musical” and “technique”, and where “cycles” does make a lot of sense in the surface reading. Apart from CAPITALISE, this answer together with the crossing COPLAND, caused me most difficulties. SCAT is a word I knew but, looking it up, now realise I didn’t know what it meant. Apparently, in jazz, the use of nonsense syllables and other wordless effects in singing.

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