Licht some cases—portions of scenes. These modules may be segments (e.g., the eleven instrumental solo sections from "Orchester-Finalisten" from "Mittwoch"), or layers (e.g., the electronic "Oktophonie" layer from the second act of "Dienstag" or the "Klavierstück XIII" version of the first scene of "Samstag" ("Luzifers Traum"), with the bass voice omitted), or a combination of the two (e.g., the vocal sextet "Menschen, hört" and the "Bassetsu-Trio", which are two layers of the "Karusel" subscene from "Michaelion", the fourth scene of "Mittwoch"). There are seven operas, each named for a day of the week, whose subject matter reflects attributes associated in traditional
Names of the days of the week of the week closely parallels that of the Latin system and is ordered after the "Seven Luminaries" (七曜 "qī yào"), which consists of the Sun, Moon and the five planets visible to the naked eye. The Chinese seem to have adopted the seven-day week from the Hellenistic system by the 4th century, although by which route is not entirely clear. It was again transmitted to China in the 8th century by Manichaeans, via the country of Kang (a Central Asian polity near Samarkand). The 4th-century date, according to the "Cihai" encyclopedia, is due to a reference to Fan Ning (範寧/范宁),