Captioned "Salute to the system!", this whimsical spoof of the permutations of serial technique was written to amuse David Andross Farquhar and his composition class at Victoria University of Wellington; the Vivo section irreverently uses the ass's bray from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream overture. Heading the piece, Lilburn writes out the 12-tone row adopted after the Vivo fanfare, and to the right of the title he writes out the last six notes of the inversion, used in the Vivo to correspond with Farquhar's initials. Furthermore, the series is rich in micro-structures – for example, the first six notes and the second six consist of the same intervals while each row and its retrograde is built as a palindrome reading from both ends to the middle.