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recapitulation (iou) and Wilbye, John (sh)


recapitulation (iou)



recapitulation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French recapitulation or late Latin recapitulatio(n-), formed as RECAPITULATE + -ATION.]
a. The action or an act of recapitulating, (a) summing up. LME.
b. Biology. The appearance during (esp. embryonic) development of successive forms resembling those of the organism's evolutionary predecessors. L19.
c. Music. A section of a composition or movement, esp. the final section of one in sonata form, in which themes from the exposition are repeated, usu. in a modified form. L19.
Christian Theology. The summing up and redemption of all human experience in Jesus' life and death. M17.

Wilbye, John (sh)




born March 7, 1574, Diss, Norfolk, Eng.
died September 1638, Colchester, Essex

British composer.

He spent his entire life in the employ of the Kytson family, as a domestic musician at Hengrave Hall, and then in Colchester (from 1628). One of the finest of the English madrigalists, he published only two collections (1598, 1609). His madrigals are less chromatic than those of his contemporary Thomas Weelkes, but he made subtle use of varying textures for expression.