• Duration: 16'
• Instrumentation: 1[Picc] 1 1[Eb-Cl] 1 — 1 1 0 0 — 3Perc Cel Harp — 2Vln Vla Vlc DB
• Year: 1966
• Order: Hopkins Center w Hanoverze, USA
• Type: parts, score

The piece is scored for a fifteen-person chamber ensemble. A juxtaposition of all kinds of musical contradictions had to depend on the instruments used in the composition. This juxtaposition was not, however, in itself my aim. The matter of overriding importance is to create here contradictory elements in a composition capable of both reconciling those contradictions of musical material and connecting them so closely as to provide, as a result, some refreshing aesthetical experiences. [G. Bacewicz's original commentary in the programme book of the 11th ''Warsaw Autumn'' Festival 1967]