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First musical debut disordered, missing note, and silenced (5)

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I believe the answer is:

muted

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'silenced' is the definition.
(muting is a kind of silencing)

'first musical debut disordered' is the wordplay.
'first' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'musical' becomes 'mute' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'debut' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'disordered' is 'd'.
'mute'+'d' is 'MUTED'.

'missing note and' is the link.
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(Other definitions for muted that I've seen before include "(Of colour) subdued" , "fitted with silencer" , "Muffled, subdued" , "with reduced volume" , "Hushed, dulled or deadened" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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