The story behind the Tone Lakes
By Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen
The diatonic scale as a cluster
of fifths
Position in the Zodiac
Filling out the empty spaces
The transformation crystal ball
The 'super sequence' and Helle Nacht
Symphony No. 5
For a detailed account of this process - including the
connection between Nørgård's attitude to life and metaphysical considerations - as well
as an analysis of and justification for the various versions of the Tone Lakes, see Svend
Hvidtfelt Nielsen: Virkeligheden fortæller mig altid flere historier (Reality is
Always Telling Me New Tales), The Funen Academy of Music, 1995.