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musical rhythm

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Noun1.musical rhythm - the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of musicmusical rhythm - the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
rhythm, beat
backbeat - a loud steady beat
downbeat - the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)
offbeat, upbeat - an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)
syncopation - a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
musical time - (music) the beat of musical rhythm
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Melodiously good Minor Canon the Reverend Septimus Crisparkle thus delivers himself, in musical rhythm, as he withdraws his amiable face from the doorway and conveys it down- stairs.
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