A Systematic Approach to Modal Thinking of Paul Constantinescu

Abstract

The area of this analytic approach to Paul Constantinescu’s creation has been delimitated according to an innovative contribution of the modal conception. Therefore, the modal diatonic is characteristic, with only a few exceptions, of the Byzantine creation, the modal synthesis is obvious in Concerto for Strings, the diatonic chromaticism, in Triple Concerto, a certain modulated pattern was generalized starting with the Piano Concerto, the chromatic harmony spices the comic-grotesque creation. Highlighting them on levels (melodic and harmonic) they offer a synthetic image of the modal process that acts at the point of each parameter.