Approaching Elements of Musical Folklore in Romanian Choral Creation (3)
Approaching Elements of Musical Folklore in Romanian Choral Creation (3)

Summary/Abstract: Even though Enescu did not create his own school of composition during his lifetime, the teacher-student activity being completely lacking, his contemporaries and later many other generations sought, described and applied in their works principles of constructing musical discourse starting from Enescu's stylistics. This is: "the way of integrating folklore into forms of Western European tradition and re-creating it in a Romanian popular character2". From the procedures found in Enes' works, Valentina Sandu Dediu makes a grouping according to stylistic parameters 3, and I present them synthetically: 1) heterophony; 2) the principle of melody that reconstructs Romanian folk stylemes in a melodica of its own; 3) harmony...from the perspective of tonal-modal-atonal fusion, with an insistence on the chromatic modal; 4) the framing of the rhythmic principle in the parlando-rubato system...; 5) from the perspective of the formal principles of musical discourse, the variational process will be found massively...

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