Paul Constantinescu’s Contribution to the Progress of the Romanian Music

Abstract

Constantinescu’s contribution to the progress of the Romanian composition school will register two stages: one of an absolute genuineness, in which the composer has the upper hand, in a double image - the initiator of the modern direction promoting the Byzantine background and the creator of the Romanian comical opera - and one with his own vision in approaching the folk direction - through new modalities of implementing folk music at a high-level (melodic, harmonic, polyphonic, instrumental-orchestral, formal). In close connection with the style directions, the field of modal innovation oscillates and affects one or another parameter of the musical flow.