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Figure 11: “Minstrels,” bars 63-77.

Figure 10: “Minstrels,” bars 36-44.

Figure 8: “Minstrels,” bars 58-62, unmarked accelerando and rallentando indicated.

Figure 6: “Minstrels,” bars 45-57, arrows indicate unmarked accelerandi, boxed figures indicate separate gestures as labeled.

Figure 3: “Minstrels,” bars 9-16. ‘S’ and ‘L’ mark the inégale and the downward squiggly arrow indicates an interruption achieved through the following, sudden accelerando.

Figure 2: “Minstrels,” bars 1-8, back arrow indicating a retardando, forward arrow indicating an accelerando, slant broken line indicating dislocation of hands as heard in the piano roll.

Figure 9: Map of process of upward reaching.

Figure 7: “Minstrels,” bars 33-34, unmarked interruptive pause indicated by a squiggly arrow.

Figure 5: “Minstrels,” bars 24-26, interruption marked by a squiggly arrow, unmarked accelerandi by a forward arrow.

Figure 4: Map of process of disorientation.

Figure 1: Formal outline of “Minstrels” and summary of processes.

Musical example 1: Claude Debussy, Preludes, Book I, no 12, “Minstrels,” Claude Debussy (rec. 1912), transfer by Denis Hall, CD, 2012.