Piano accompaniment guides the emotional arc of this scene, as an opera box office employee goes about her ticket work while singing about her grander onstage aspirations. Self-referential musical tropes figure into the story—from the ornamented, lyrical lines of Betty's solo about her operatic skill, to the bassline-with-offbeats accompaniment of a 'bluegrass-themed' duet between the director and another employee, to the heavy chords that support the buildup to a vengeful murder.