Organ playing after the epistle is novel (5,5)

I believe the answer is:

titus groan

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'novel' is the definition.
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'organ playing after the epistle' is the wordplay.
'playing' indicates anagramming the letters.
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the epistle' becomes 'Titus' (Epistle to Titus is a part of the New Testament).
'organ' is an anagram of 'groan'.
'groan' after 'titus' is 'TITUS GROAN'.

'is' is the link.

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