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Answer for the clue "Conservatory assignment, perhaps ", 5 letters:
etude

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a composition having musical value but primarily intended to exercise the pupil in technical difficulties, 1837, from French étude , literally "study" (12c., Old French estudie ), from Latin studium (see study (n.)). Popularized in English by the etudes ...

Usage examples of etude.

His etude had thrust him into a grubby reality that he had never known back in Anche.

You are about to begin your etude, and yet you question the wisdom of it.

Four measures to go at Medfield 18 and then his etude turned to Canon and Mathematics.

Thinking that the cants could be useful in his etude, Dorian pulled the tassied string of his packbelt and started a tiny recorder.

Mixolydian Etude failed to have the same soporific effect it had possessed in his boyhood.

Konigswarter, Etudes sur le developpement des societes humaines, Paris, 1850.