The work of music as such is inexpressible in the sense that its content or its immanent sense cannot be communicated through word. It is also indescribable in the sense that its sound matter cannot be heared through language. By contrast, however, and this is the main thesis of the present article, verbal description of the experience of listening to music is possible and often indispensable to the realization of this experience. The argument presented here is based on Wittgenstein’s conception of description as the creation of images intended to serve as instruments of an active attitude towards what we live, and not as a mere listing of the parts or aspects that otherwise make up a given thing.