Music and the ineffable / Vladimir Jankélévitch ; translated by Carolyn Abbate.

The Charme of Jankélévitch / Arnold I. Davidson
Jankélévitch's singularity / Carolyn Abbate
Music and the ineffable
One: The "ethics" and the "metaphysics" of music
Orpheus or the sirens?
Bearing a grudge against music
Music and ontology
Two: The inexpressive "espressivo"
The mirage of development. The reprise
The illusion of expression
Impressionism
The inexpressive and objectivity
Violence
Expressing nothing whatsoever. Affected indifference
The opposite, something else, less. Humor, allusion, and understatement
To describe, to evoke, to recount along rough lines
To suggest in retrospect
To express the inexpressible into infinity
Serious and frivolous, deep and superficial. Musical ambiguity
The ineffable and the untellable. The meaning of meaning
Three: The charm and the alibi
The poetic operation
Fevroniya, or innocence
The spatial mirage
Temporality and the nocturne
Divine inconsistency. The invisible city of Kitezh
The bergamasque charm. Melody and harmony
Allegretto bergamasque. Pianissimo sonore, forte con sordina
Wisdom and music
"Laetitiae comes"
Four: Music and silence.