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recapitulation2 CONSTRUCTSSonata recapMARX · RECAP SECTIONBiogenetic lawHAECKEL · BIOGENETIC LAW

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Music theory

The sonata-form section restating the exposition

In music theory, the recapitulation is the section of a sonata-form movement that brings back the themes of the opening exposition, now resolved into the home key. Adolf Bernhard Marx codified this three-part scheme and its vocabulary in his 1845 treatise Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition; Charles Rosen's 1980 Sonata Forms and Hepokoski and Darcy's 2006 Elements of Sonata Theory later reexamined how the return works and what counts as one. The referent is a formal span of a musical work defined by the return and tonal resolution of earlier material, unrelated to a theological summing-up of humanity or a biological replay of ancestry.[1][2][3]

Unit
A section of a sonata-form movement, bounded by the return of the exposition's themes in the home key
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Located by score analysis: the point of thematic return and the resolution to the tonic key

Evolutionary biology

Development replaying evolutionary ancestry

In evolutionary biology, recapitulation is the claim that an individual organism, as it develops, passes through forms resembling the adult stages of its evolutionary ancestors, summed up in the slogan that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Ernst Haeckel stated this as the biogenetic law in his 1866 Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, where he also coined the terms ontogeny and phylogeny; Stephen Jay Gould's 1977 Ontogeny and Phylogeny reviewed the theory's history and the evidence that led biologists to reject it in its strong form. This referent is a proposed pattern in embryonic development read as ancestral history, not a returning section of music or a doctrine about Christ restoring humanity.[4][5]

Unit
A proposed correspondence between an organism's developmental stages and its ancestors' adult forms
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by comparing embryological series across species against the fossil and phylogenetic record

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References

  1. Marx, A. B. (1845). Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, praktisch-theoretisch (Vol. 3). Breitkopf und Härtel.
  2. Rosen, C. (1980). Sonata forms. W. W. Norton.
  3. Hepokoski, J., & Darcy, W. (2006). Elements of sonata theory: Norms, types, and deformations in the late eighteenth-century sonata. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195146400.001.0001
  4. Haeckel, E. (1866). Generelle Morphologie der Organismen. Georg Reimer.
  5. Gould, S. J. (1977). Ontogeny and phylogeny. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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