Expressionist tendencies in Paul Constantinescu’s creation

Abstract

Expressionism (Balkanism, Orientalism) represents for Paul Constantinescu, a modality to express a folkloric background. Adapting this universal tendency to the autochthonous specificity and framing it within the Carpathian-Danubian space outlines the so-called Balkanism or Orientalism. One of the features of this direction is the comic which, for Paul Constantinescu, depicts differentiated expressions: the humor, the grotesque, the transcendent comic (directed towards philosophical spheres), each nuance being musically underlain by certain procedures, detached from the sphere of the modal. The works inscribing in this direction stand for music with text, or, at least programmatic.