Music and the ineffable

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jankelevitch, Vladimir
Other Authors: Abbate, Carolyn
Format: Book
Published: Princeton, N Princeton University Pr 2003
Subjects:
Online Access:Click Here to View Status and Holdings.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • The Charme of Jankelevitch
  • Arnold I. Davidson
  • Jankelevitch's singularity
  • rCarolyn 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