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Musical pieces by style

Period

Neoclassical (see Neoclassicism)

Modernistic (see Modernism)

Style

Dadaistic (see Dada)

Impressionistic (see Impressionist music)

Jazz (see Jazz)

Minimalistic (see Minimalist music)

Nationalistic (see Nationalism)

Populistic (see Populism)

Postminimalistic (see Postminimalism)

Surrealist (see Surrealism)

Technique

Atonal (see Atonality)

Twelve-tone (see Twelve-tone technique)

List of pieces which use serialism (see Serialism)

Extended techniques (see Extended technique)

Pandiatonic (see Pandiatonic)

Polytonal (see Polytonality)

Process music (see Process music)

Quartal (see Quartal harmony)

Quarter tone (see Quarter tone)

Whole tone (see Whole tone scale)

Phase (see Phasing)

Quotation (see Quotation)

• Luciano Berio

Sequenzas I-XIV

• John Cage

prepared piano pieces (1938)

One⁸ (1991), for curved bow

• Henry Cowell

Tides of Manaunaun (1915), large tone-clusters

The Banshee, Aeolian Harp, and Sinister Resonance, played inside the piano

• George Crumb

Black Angels, extended string techniques, including bowing with glass rods

Makrokosmos (1972), prepared and amplified piano

Vox Balaenae (1971), harmonic glissando (gull effect)

• Julio Estrada

Miqi'nahual (1993) from his modular composition Doloritas (1992), stringed instrument with two right hand bows

• Sofia Gubaidulina

String quartets

• Jonathan Harvey

Imaginings (1994), stringed instrument with two right hand bows

• Charles Ives

Concord Sonata, use of a 14 3/4 inch long piece of wood to create a cluster chord

• Nikita Koshkin

Piece with Clocks, prepared guitar using cork, matches and a foam mute

The Prince's Toys - Suite for Guitar, cross string "snare" technique, string scraped with thumbnail, percussion (striking of the guitar), playing behind the nut or saddle

• György Ligeti

Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures

• Krzysztof Penderecki

Anaklasis (1959), extended string techniques

Polymorphia (1961), extended string techniques

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960), extended string techniques

• Marc Sabat

For Magister Zacharias, the mechanism of lifting the dampers without the hammers touching the keys is highly-amplified

• Iannis Xenakis

Nomos Alpha (1966), for solo cello, uses harmonic glissando

• La Monte Young

Chronos Kristalla (1990), for string quartet using a special tuning and only natural harmonics

• Christopher Rouse

Ogoun Badagris (1976), for 5 percussionists, innovative percussion techniques

Ku-Ka-Ilimoku (1978), for 4 percussionists, innovative percussion techniques

Rotae Passionis (1982), for small ensemble, woodwinds and piano double on percussion, extended percussion, flute and clarinet techniques

Bonham (1988), for 8 percussionists

Rouse makes constant use of extended techniques for percussion and other instruments