The document provides listening examples that were covered in class on October 14th relating to two musical traditions: the French spectralist tradition and the American drone/minimalist tradition. It lists composers and examples from each tradition, such as Debussy's "Nuages" representing spectralism and Partch's "The Rose" representing drone/minimalism. Students are assigned to write a 500 word double-spaced journal entry discussing the material and examples, and to submit it by the given deadline.