recapitulation

Noun

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

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

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  recap , review , palingenesis
• Antonyms: 
  cenogenesis , kenogenesis , caenogenesis , cainogenesis , kainogenesis