In this three-part piece the oboe is used as an instrument of sudden and capricious transformation. Initially calm and melodic, the music increasingly tends toward a hyperactive frenzy, which explodes in a constellation of dense, rapidly changing figures in the second part. The third part attempts an uneasy truce, consisting of slow phrases which nevertheless become vertiginously rapid at unexpected moments. The piece ends on an ambiguous note, indicating that the conflict has by no means been resolved.