Предшественники авангарда:
Alexander Scriabin; Igor Stravinsky; Bela Bartok; Nikolai Roslavets; Arthur Lourie
Eric Satie and Les Six (Georges Auric; Louis Durey; Arthur Honegger; Darius Milhaud; Francis Poulenc; Germaine Tailleferre)

2. Американские классики:
Charles Ives — The Unanswered Question; Three Places in New England; Piano Sonata No. 2; Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 4; 114 Songs; Universe Symphony
Henry Cowell — The Banshee; The Tides of Manaunaun
George Antheil — Ballet Mecanique; A Jazz Symphony; Piano Sonata No. 2
Elliott Carter — String Quartet No. 1; No.2; What Next?
Conlon Nancarrow — Studies for player piano
John J. Becker, Wallingford Riegger, Carl Ruggles

3. Second Viennese School:
Arnold Schoenberg — Gurre-Lieder
Anton Webern — Six Bagatelles; Symphony
Alban Berg — Wozzeck; Lyric Suite
Heinrich Jalowetz; Erwin Stein; Egon Wellesz
Eduard Steuermann; Hanns Eisler; Roberto Gerhard; Norbert von Hannenheim; Rudolf Kolisch; Paul A. Pisk; Karl Rankl; Josef Rufer; Nikos Skalkottas; Viktor Ullmann; Winfried Zillig

4. Микротоновая музыка:
Charles Ives — Three Quarter Tone Piano Pieces
Alois Haba — String Quartet No. 2
Giacinto Scelsi — Four Pieces on a single note
Julian Carrillo — Sonata casi-fantasia
Ivan Wyschnegradsky — The Day of the Existence
Harry Partch — The Bewitched; King Oedipus
Lou Harrison — Double Music
Mildred Couper; Adriaan Fokker; Ivor Darreg
Ben Johnston; Joe Maneri; Ezra Sims; Joel Mandelbaum

5. Алеаторика:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Musikalisches Wurfelspel
John Cage — HPSCHD; Music of Changes; Music for Piano
Charles Ives — Piano Sonata No. 1
Marcel Duchamp — Musical Erratum
Pierre Boulez — Third Piano Sonata
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Klavierstucke XI
Witold Lutoslawski — String Quartet
Tan Dun — On Taoism

6. New York School:
John Cage — Imaginary Landscape No. 4; Sonatas and Interludes; Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Morton Feldman — Rothko Chapel; Neither; For Philip Guston
Earle Brown — December 1952
Christian Wolff — Duo for Pianists; Piano Trio
Meredith Monk — Atlas
Tony Conrad

7. Extended technique:
George Crumb — Ancient Voices of Children; Black Angels; Vox Balaenae
Pauline Oliveros — Deep Listening

8. Darmstadt School:
Olivier Messiaen — Quartet for the end of time; Harawi: Songs of love and death
Pierre Boulez — Piano Sonata No. 2; Structures; The hammer without a master
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Song of the Youths; Groups; Hymnen; Sirius
Bruno Maderna — Hyperion
Luigi Nono — The Suspended Song
Mauricio Kagel — Match for three players
Aldo Clementi; Franco Donatoni; Niccolo Castiglioni; Franco Evangelisti
Gottfried Michael Koenig; Giacomo Manzoni; Henri Pousseur
Jean Barraque; Helmut Lachenmann

9. Русские композиторы:
Edison Denisov — The Foam of Days
Nikolai Karetnikov — Symphony No. 4
Sofia Gubaidulina — Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Andrei Volkonsky — Mirror Suite
Alfred Schnittke — Symphony No. 1
Valentin Silvestrov — Mysterium

10. Электроника:
Edgard Varese — Deserts, Poeme electronique
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Studie II
Karel Goeyvaerts — Nummer 5
Milton Babbitt — Philomel
Morton Subotnick — Silver Apples of the Moon
Charles Wuorinen — Time's Encomium
John Cage — Williams Mix
Luciano Berio — Sequenza; Epiphanies
Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
Mario Davidovsky — Synchronisms
Halim El-Dabh; James Tenney

11. Конкретная музыка
Pierre Schaeffer — Symphonie pour un homme seul
Pierre Henry; Philippe Arthuys
Luc Ferrari; Francois-Bernard Mache; Bernard Parmegiani; Mireille Chamass-Kyrou
Ivo Malec; Philippe Carson; Romuald Vandelle; Edgardo Canton; Francois Bayle

12. Янис Ксенакис — Kraanerg; Metastaseis; Pithoprakta; Eonta

13. Минимализм:
La Monte Young — Trio for Strings; Well-Tuned Piano
Terry Riley — In C
Steve Reich — Pendulum Music; Piano Phase; Clapping Music
Frederic Rzewski — Coming Together
John Coolidge Adams — Shaker Loops; Harmonium; Grand Pianola Music

14. Новая простота:
Wolfgang Rihm; Wolfgang von Schweinitz; Ulrich Stranz; Manfred Trojahn
Alfred Janson; Aaron Jay Kernis; Wilhelm Killmayer; Ladislav Kupkovic; Gyorgy Kurtag; Roland Moser; Kurt Schwertsik; Howard Skempton