Calculated generalized oscillator strengths for monopole, dipole, and quadrupole discrete and continuous spectrum excitations in Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe are presented. The results cover the broad range of transferred energy $\ensuremath{\omega}, 0l~\ensuremath{\omega}l120 \mathrm{Ry}$ and momentum $q, 0l~ql2 \mathrm{a}.\mathrm{u}.$ The calculations were performed in the one-particle Hartree-Fock approximation and with account of many-electron correlations. The latter effects are included via the random phase approximation with exchange, proving to be important in all dipole, monopole, and quadrupole channels as well as in all the domains of the transferred energies and momenta considered. Particularly important are the many-electron correlations at high q values, where new additional purely correlational maxima and minima appear. These results, particularly the maxima and minima are expected to stimulate experimental activity in this domain of atomic physics.