Phonon-like excitations of an anti-instanton-instanton liquid that are due
to adiabatic variations in the instanton dimension are considered on the ba
sis of an approximate calculation of the relevant path integral, which is s
aturated by quasizero modes. The kinetic term and the effective Lagrangian
are found for such excitations. The properties of their spectrum, which has
a mass gap determined by Lambda(QCD), are discussed. (C) 2000 MAIK "Nauka/
Interperiodica".