recapitulation

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 4

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