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Piece of music child put on a tad short (6)

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I believe the answer is:

sonata

'piece of music' is the definition.
(type of musical composition)

'child put on a tad short' is the wordplay.
'child' becomes 'son' (male child).
'put on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'tad' with its final letter removed is 'ta'.
'son'+'a'+'ta'='SONATA'

(Other definitions for sonata that I've seen before include "See 6" , "eg Moonlight, Kreutzer" , "Work for soloist" , "To NASA, strangely, for the solo piece" , "Type of musical composition" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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