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| Dancing in the Dark was inspired by a Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Pluto and its relatively large satellite, Charon. The pitches for this piece are those found in a scale based on twenty equal divisions of a perfect fifth, with middle-C as the tonic. Each of these divisions is slightly larger than an interval of 35 cents, and the result is very similar to Wendy Carlos's gamma tuning. A special property of this scale is that it can be used to form very pure major and minor thirds, and so the tertian harmonies used in this piece are therefore quite clear and beautiful. |
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| "Midnight Madness," sets the scene for Lady MacBeth, walking and talking in her sleep and obsessively going through the motions of washing her hands ("Out, damned spot!"). A significant musical feature is the apparently endlessly descending set of glissandi (an example of an aural illusion known as Shepard tones). |
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| The "Lament for renown and grace," based on an equal-tempered scale with 19 tones per octave, was composed as incidental music for the conclusion of the scene in "MacBeth" in which the murder of King Duncan is discovered. |
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