- at that moment where the music of the recapitulation stops corresponding to that of the exposition; this moment may not be associated with an initiating phrase function
- ascending stepwise
- a coda is a large-scale section on the same structural level as the preceding recapitulation; a codetta is a small unit, on the same structural level as a basic idea
- subordinate theme
- PAC (in the home key)
- lending a kind of circularity to the overall form
- because there is no natural place in the recapitulation to recall ideas from the development