Main entry: recapitulation
Definition: (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
Main entry: recap, recapitulation, review
Definition: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
Main entry: recapitulation
Definition: (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
Main entry: palingenesis, recapitulation
Definition: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species