Music and the Ineffable

Cover
Halftitle Page
Dedication
Titlepage
Copyright
Table of Contents
The Charme of Jank´el´evitch
Jank´el´evitch’s Singularity
Preface  MUSIC AND THE INEFFABLE
Chapter one THE “ETHICS” ANDTHE “METAPHYSICS” OF MUSIC
	Orpheus or the Sirens?
	Bearing a Grudge against Music
	MUSIC AND ONTOLOGY
Chapter 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
Chapter 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”
Chapter four MUSIC AND SILENCE
NOTES
INDEX OF NAMES