first performed by Ian Pace in 1988

This is a dance of celebration and thanksgiving, and remains the composer's only solo piano work apart from the as-yet-unfinished Dances in Stone and Glass. There are three main musical sources: the 7-note 'rainbow' chord, derived from the harmonic series; a succession of intervals based on the Fibonacci series of numbers; the cycle of fourths covering the entire chromatic octave. The work can be divided into two sections: Exposition + Development; Recapitulation + Coda. The first section, which is twice as long as the second, is arranged in a quasi-mirror form at the middle of which is a 12-bar section of the 12-note theme - representing the perfection of 12 x 12. This has its complement in the Coda - the 2 x 12 bars of 7/8 revealing the progression from Ab (the 'fallen' ninth degree of the Fibonacci succession of intervals) up to C, the emphatic tonic and fundamental of the piece.