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Piece of music band advertise endlessly (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

opus

'piece of music' is the definition.
('opus' can be a synonym of 'piece of music')

'band advertise endlessly' is the wordplay.
'band' becomes 'o' (I've seen this in other clues).
'advertise' becomes 'push' ('push' can be a synonym of 'advertize').
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'push' with its last letter removed is 'pus'.
'o'+'pus'='OPUS'

(Other definitions for opus that I've seen before include "Composer's work" , "Musical composition in the soup" , "Work (of a composer?)" , "Piece of music (with number)" , "Soup (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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