musical rhythm

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musical rhythm - the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"rhythm, beatbackbeat - a loud steady beatdownbeat - 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 beatmusical time - (music) the beat of musical rhythm