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Choral piece assembled around Biblical texts (5)

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I believe the answer is:

motet

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'choral piece' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'assembled around biblical texts' is the wordplay.
'assembled' becomes 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'assemble').
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'biblical texts' becomes 'ot' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'met' enclosing 'ot' is 'MOTET'.

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(Other definitions for motet that I've seen before include "Church choral composition" , "Short piece of church choral music" , "Unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics" , "Certain one is morally superior" , "Short sacred choral piece" .)

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