Compositions that use extended techniques

ballet music by Igor Stravinsky, composed for the ballet of the same title by Vaslav Nijinsky

program symphony by Hector Berlioz

1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky

Wozzeck () is the first opera by Austrian composer Alban Berg, created between 1914 and 1922 and premiered on 14 December 1925 at the Berlin State Opera. Based on Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck (1836), it depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression.

orchestral suite by Gustav Holst

musical composition by Krzysztof Penderecki (1960)

musical setting by Arnold Schoenberg of 21 selected poems by Albert Giraud

thumb|upright=1.2|Ruins of Gurre Castle, 2007 '''''''' (Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra. The work, which is based on an early song cycle for soprano, tenor and piano, was composed by the then-Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1900 to 1903. After a break, he resumed orchestration in 1910 and completed it in November 1911. It sets to music the poem cycle Gurresange'' by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by ).

opera by Arnold Schoenberg

Bartók ballet

composition for solo flute by Edgard Varèse

musical works by John Cage

Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass, 1840–60

symphony by Joseph Haydn

opera by Arnold Schoenberg

five pieces for piano by Béla Bartók

Sequenza (Italian for "sequence") is the name borne by fourteen compositions for solo instruments or voice by Luciano Berio. The pieces, some of which call for extended techniques, are:

composition for string quartet by Béla Bartók

String Quartet by Béla Bartók

composition for string quartet by Béla Bartók

Penderecki

Makrokosmos is a series of four volumes of pieces for piano by American composer George Crumb. The name alludes to Mikrokosmos, a set of piano pieces by Béla Bartók, one of Crumb's favorite 20th-century composers. The first volume of the set was composed in 1972, while the last was completed in early 1979; the first performance of all four volumes in sequence was given by Yvar Mikhashoff, Aki Takahashi, Stephen Manes, Freida Manes, Jan Williams and Lynn Harbold, in Buffalo, New York, on 12 June 1980.

Polymorphia (Many forms) is a composition for 48 string instruments (24 violins and 8 each of violas, cellos and basses) composed by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki in 1961. The piece was commissioned by the North German Radio Hamburg. It premiered on 16 April 1962 by the radio orchestra and was conducted by Andrzej Markowski. Polymorphia is dedicated to Hermann Moeck, the first of Penderecki’s editors in the West.

composition for string quartet by Béla Bartók

Játékok (Hungarian: Games) is an ongoing collection of "pedagogical performance pieces" by György Kurtág. He has been writing them since 1973. Ten volumes had been published as of 2021 (by Editio Musica Budapest). Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX and X are for piano solo. Volumes IV and VIII are for piano 4-hands or two pianos.