Noun
The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLooking back in vision is like recapitulation in music; both give us time, at certain points, to reconfirm or change our conceptions of the whole. Marvin Minsky
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution. Max Heindel
As a response to Haeckel’s theory of recapitulation, von Baer enunciates his most notorious laws of development. Source: Internet
All this is a fairly close recapitulation of the psychotically brutal economic pummeling the eurozone authorities dished out to Greece. Source: Internet
At the outset of the recapitulation section, the theme returns fortissimo in D major, rather than the opening's D minor. Source: Internet
In Western classical music a simple ternary form has a third section that is a recapitulation of the first (ABA). Source: Internet