Folkloric Language Mirrored in the Romanian Interwar Musical Creation

Abstract

The decline of the tonal-functional system has led to actualizing the interrupted “historical thread” of modal musical thinking. The restoration of this thread is due to the first wave of the national musical schools (the second half of the 19th century) and, subsequently, to the second wave (the first half of the 20th century) with their aesthetics oriented towards folkloric cultures. Materialized in the “reaction to the leading tone”, it brings about the creation of new modes for organizing the musical language. This way, the representatives of the Romanian musical school introduce within the musical creation the folk melodies, with their diatonic scales, intuiting the peasant’s authentic folklore, as well as the modal harmony.