This thesis presents the developing of the modal control theory in a multivariable system starting on the knowledge of the transfer matrix, H(S), that characterize it. We use the state space representation technique where the description, of the system is made by a controlable canonic form, whose elements are got directly from H(S). Starting from the state model which represents the system and admitting that the state vector is obtained by estimation, we can get the system provided with a controller in a wav that, by the canonic form chosen, the system spectrum can be imposed. Afterwards, this theory could be applied to a power system made by two interconnected areas with a finality of imposing the form of the transient auswer due to perturbations at the demand of active power. The system behavior is simulated in digital computer helped by the CONTINUOUS SYSTEM MODELING PROGRAM - S/360- IBM, the results being presented in form of drawings. The problem of the active power - frequency control was seen by FOSHA and ELGERD [5] too as a problem of otimization with a quadratic cost function but their pratical application run into the choice of the matrices which ponder the state and the control at the cost function and supply the better transient for the system.