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Recapitulation

Recapitulation

Overview
The word recapitulation can mean:
  • A summary
    Summary
    A summary or recap is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the original subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event...

  • Recapitulation (music)
    Recapitulation (music)
    In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form. The recapitulation occurs after the movement's development section, and typically presents once more the musical themes from the movement's exposition...

    , a section of musical sonata form where the exposition is repeated in an altered form and the development is concluded
  • Recapitulation theory
    Recapitulation theory
    The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism and often expressed as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is a discredited biological hypothesis...

    , a scientific theory influential on but no longer accepted in its original form by evolutionary science, namely, that the congruence in form between the same embryonic developmental stages of different species is evidence that the embryos are repeating the evolutionary stages of their ancestral history.
  • Recapitulation (Irenaeus), a religious theory
  • Recapitulation (Castaneda)
    Recapitulation (Castaneda)
    Recapitulation is a term coined by Carlos Castaneda in his book, The Eagle’s Gift, published in 1982. In The Eagle's Gift, Florinda, one of don Juan's party of warriors, teaches Castaneda about the process and purpose of recapitulation...

    , a spiritual practice appearing first in the writings of Carlos Castaneda and later in those of Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Victor Sanchez and others
  • Recapitulation (healing) the art of recapturing lost energy stored in the muscles of the body from thoughts & feelings of past events, a natural healing process.
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The word recapitulation can mean:
  • A summary
    Summary
    A summary or recap is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the original subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event...

  • Recapitulation (music)
    Recapitulation (music)
    In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form. The recapitulation occurs after the movement's development section, and typically presents once more the musical themes from the movement's exposition...

    , a section of musical sonata form where the exposition is repeated in an altered form and the development is concluded
  • Recapitulation theory
    Recapitulation theory
    The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism and often expressed as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is a discredited biological hypothesis...

    , a scientific theory influential on but no longer accepted in its original form by evolutionary science, namely, that the congruence in form between the same embryonic developmental stages of different species is evidence that the embryos are repeating the evolutionary stages of their ancestral history.
  • Recapitulation (Irenaeus), a religious theory
  • Recapitulation (Castaneda)
    Recapitulation (Castaneda)
    Recapitulation is a term coined by Carlos Castaneda in his book, The Eagle’s Gift, published in 1982. In The Eagle's Gift, Florinda, one of don Juan's party of warriors, teaches Castaneda about the process and purpose of recapitulation...

    , a spiritual practice appearing first in the writings of Carlos Castaneda and later in those of Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Victor Sanchez and others
  • Recapitulation (healing) the art of recapturing lost energy stored in the muscles of the body from thoughts & feelings of past events, a natural healing process. Self Re-examination. Recapitulator, a tool used to bring attention to the memory & location of trapped energy to remove stress from the body thereby healing any area of distress upon re-examination.