OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11972

recapitulation

/ˌɹiːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
recapitulación
A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
The dolorous effects of the second world war on train services, and its protracted legacies of over-age equipment and shortages of material for replacement, are too fresh in memory…
reexposición
The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-sub…