How rave begins, playing party music (5)
I believe the answer is:
rondo
'how rave begins playing party music' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'rave begins playing party music' is the wordplay.
'begins' suggests taking the first letters.
'playing' becomes 'on' (on can mean playing or performing).
'party music' becomes 'do' (as in do-re-mi. I am not sure about the 'party' bit.).
The first letter of 'rave' is 'r'.
'r'+'on'+'do'='RONDO'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rondo that I've seen before include "Piece of music with repeated refrain" , "Musical piece with returning theme" , "Musical form with recurring theme" , "Musical form with recurrent theme" , "Musical form with returning theme" .)