I discovered in my 40s that he is just a recapitulation of the things that the high modernists had already done, and that he basically just ripped off Joyce.
A quarrel between their successors over a rare white hawk provoked the first battles and helped turn the Sikhs into a people of martial renown.A martyrdom or two later the last guru, Gobind Singh, founded the Khalsa, the brotherhood of "pure ones", in a Sikh recapitulation of the binding of Isaac.
However, unlike the space-station jaunts, a trip around the moon would not be a mere commercial recapitulation of a type of mission that had already been flown.Soyuz, Russia's manned spacecraft, is a tried and tested design, but it has never been to the moon.
And now a team from the University of Melbourne, in Australia, has found an even more striking example of recapitulation, which more or less proves one of the oddest ideas to emerge from evolutionary biology: that elephants are derived from mermaids.Not actual mermaids, of course.
The embryos of animals, he reckoned, experienced a process that he called "recapitulation".
In 1913 Woodrow Wilson revived the personal address and shifted its focus, changing it from a simple recapitulation of the executive branch's recent activities to a road map of the president's legislative agenda for the upcoming year.
Following the development comes a recapitulation of the exposition, this time all in the tonic key (before c. 1770 the recapitulation sometimes retained the key scheme of the exposition, except for the closing bars), resolving the harmonic tension of the development.
In his greatest sonata movements, such as the first allegro of the Eroica, the listener's subconscious mind remains oriented to E-flat major even in the most distant keys, so that when, long before the recapitulation, the music touches on the dominant (B-flat), this is immediately recognizable as being the dominant.
His later sonata-form compositions in all instrumental genres when they follow the rough traditional scheme of exposition, development, and recapitulation modify it substantially.
For this reason their specific form does not depend, as did that of the Classical sonata, on the exposition development recapitulation principle of contrast, conflict, and reconciliation of keys.
The exposition thus creates an opposition of tonalities or key areas that the rest of the movement the development and recapitulation will strive to reconcile.
