Constantin Ripa – analytical aspects of choral creation
Constantin Ripa – analytical aspects of choral creation

Summary/Abstract: One of the most prolific authors of the Romanian choral music, the composer and conductor Constantin Ripa is a personality of insufficient importance in the Romanian musical writings. His choral scores really meet the attributes and meanings in which metatonality is manifested. The richness of the means of expression and the use of specific sound systems bring diversity through the multitude of themes approached by the composer. In the ensemble of choir creation of the composer we will meet: choirs for equal voices, children choirs, mixed choirs, including: songs - children's games, adaptations and potpourries of Romanian folklore, own creations of folklore and religious inspiration, choruses on Ovidiu, Mihai Eminescu, Ion Barbu, Lucian Blaga, Vasile Voiculescu, Otilia Cazimir, Mircea Stefanescu. The different periods of creation are distinguished from the perspective of the elements of language, which represent a constant in the personal style as a whole, but also reflect the composer's choices in accordance with the spirit of the times, but also with the repertory necessities of the choral ensembles, especially the Antiphony choir that he led with 1969. From the first stage of creation, the Cântece de anotimp on poet Lucian Blaga's poetry reflects a modal-chromatic thinking with a intonational substrate and an ethos taken from the Romanian folk music. At the end of the 1970s, in the works of Codex Caioni, Protomusica, Pax ades, Transilvania, Țeapa lui Dracula, we can see the composer's preference for the themes of history and the ancestral past. The choral creation of the composer Constantin Ripa gives musicologists the panorama of a live repertoire, rich in artistic significance and expressiveness.

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