 The title refers to the Greek myth in which Theseus finds his way out of Minotaur's labyrinth using a ball of thread that Ariadne, daughter of King Minos of Crete, gave him.Similarly, the music in the collection can be said to guide the listener through a labyrinth of keys.Fischer also used Greek mythology to name the pieces in another large scale music collection of his, "Musikalischer Parnassus".