RECAPITULATION

• (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

• (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

  synonyms : recap , review

• (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

• (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

  synonyms : palingenesis

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Mnemonics for recapitulation

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