| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tender) | 1:26:48 - The Duke talks with the servants | 11th chord | 13th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | advance plot | arriving | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | duke | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | light | pentatonic | room | servant |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo | 0:58:18 - Dr. Clitterhouse talks with Jo | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | conversing | doctor | foreign key modulation | gangster | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | sequence | tender |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo (End Cast) | 1:26:42 - Cast list | 13th chord | added-note chord | beaker | bubbling | chromatic mediant | closing credits | end title | triadic transformation |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Running) | 0:23:58 - Mortimer runs to the door | 9th chord | 13th chord | aunt | bride | child | chromatic scale | crazy person | dark | familiar tune | groom | Halloween | intervallic expansion | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | running | rushing | source music | source to score | trick-or-treating | turning point |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian | 1:15:22 - Marlowe and Vivian talk | 9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | car | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | conversing | foreign key modulation | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | love scene | Neapolitan | private eye | romantic | suspension |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian | 1:40:03 - Marlowe and Vivian kiss | 9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | captive | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | foreign key modulation | freeing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | Neapolitan | private eye | romantic | room | suspension |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Driving 2 + Vivian | 1:44:16 - Vivian tells Marlowe she loves him | 9th chord | 13th chord | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | driving | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | love scene | ostinato | private eye | romantic | suspension | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Driving 2 + Vivian | 1:45:21 - Marlowe tells Vivian he loves her | 9th chord | 13th chord | arriving | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | driving | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | love scene | ostinato | private eye | romantic | suspension | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian | 1:52:48 - Marlowe talks to Vivian | 9th chord | 13th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | Neapolitan | private eye | resolution | romantic | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian (Expressivo) | 1:53:20 - Marlowe pulls Vivian close | 9th chord | 13th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | private eye | resolution | romantic | room | suspension |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Leona | 1:36:26 - Leona watches | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic parallelism | climax | crowd | crying | doctor | harbor | leading lady | leading man | sailor | somber | watching | wife |
| Caged (1950) | June | 0:37:27 - June and Marie talk | 11th chord | 13th chord | conversing | establish character | foreign key modulation | friend | hopeful | leading lady | melancholy | prison | prisoner | sequence | somber |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Main Title) | 0:00:36 - Credits over a city skyline | 13th chord | added-note chord | bold | cast list | chromatic sequence | city | Gershwinesque | opening title sequence | skyline |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy) | 0:01:33 - A cop tells a man to keep moving | 9th chord | 13th chord | bridge | chromatic parallelism | city | conversing | establish place | establish setting | old man | police | soliloquy | uneasy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Snake) | 0:02:35 - A montage of New York City scenes | 13th chord | 64 chord | altered dominant | bridge | chromatic sequence | city | conversing | countermelody | double exposure | Dutch angle | establish setting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | grand | montage | old man | police | snake effect | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy) | 0:02:50 - Old-timer talks with cop | 9th chord | 13th chord | arguing | bluesy | bridge | chromatic parallelism | city | establish setting | old man | police | sentimental | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy 2) | 0:05:44 - Old-timer talks to a stone carver | 9th chord | 13th chord | bluesy | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | establish character | fragmentation | love | old man | romantic | sentimental | soliloquy | street | worker |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 0:12:16 - Eddie plays the piano | 13th chord | brother | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | composer | conversing | describing | dissonant bass | establish character | explaining | leading man | musician | name of film | pentatonic | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:13:03 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | brother | common-chord modulation | composer | conversing | deceptive resolution | establish character | leading man | musician | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:27:40 - Eddie plays the piano | 13th chord | advance plot | brother | composer | composing | leading man | musician | on-screen music | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:27:59 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 13th chord | advance plot | brother | composer | composing | deceptive resolution | enharmonic respelling | leading man | musician | on-screen music | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Waltz) | 0:31:48 - Peggy and Danny talk about the future | 9th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | boat | calm | common-chord modulation | conversing | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | romantic |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:42:10 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | advance plot | boxer | brother | common-chord modulation | composer | conversing | crowd | deceptive resolution | leading man | musician | on-screen music | party | piano | playing | romantic | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Stride Piano) | 0:43:27 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | boxer | brother | chord substitution | common-tone diminished 7th | composer | conversing | crowd | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | musician | on-screen music | parallelism | party | piano | playing | ragtime | source music | syncopation | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Simplice) | 0:48:06 - Danny talks to Peggy | 9th chord | 13th chord | boxer | dancer | embracing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | romantic | street |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (The Song of the City) | 1:23:05 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 13th chord | advance plot | brother | common-chord modulation | composer | diminished 7th chord | leading man | listening | musician | on-screen music | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear | victim |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 1:32:32 - Violins playing | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | audience | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | romantic | sentimental | sequence | source music | watching | zoom in |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Tutti) | 1:33:02 - Peggy watches from the audience | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dramatic | fragmentation | Gershwinesque | leading lady | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | point-of-view shot | romantic | source music | watching | zoom in |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 1:34:24 - Peggy reacts to the music | 9th chord | 13th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | leading man | listening | musician | newspaper | newspaper stand | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | romantic | source music | street | watching | zoom out |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Grandioso) | 1:36:11 - Audience enjoying the performance | 9th chord | 13th chord | altered dominant | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | double exposure | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | leading man | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | romantic | sentimental | smiling | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Tutti 2) | 1:36:41 - Danny's figure appears in the concert hall | 9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | crying | deceptive resolution | double exposure | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading man | listening | mode mixture | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | romantic | sentimental | smiling | source music | watching | zoom out |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Chorus) | 1:41:14 - Danny talks with Peggy | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | chromatic sequence | conversing | crying | ethereal | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | optimistic | reunion | reuniting | romantic | shimmery | street | suspension | victim |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (End Cast) | 1:43:34 - End cast list | 13th chord | closing credits | end title sequence | jazz | not by Steiner | plagal cadence | syncopation | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues | 0:01:16 - New York City streets | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | blues | cut from film | establish setting | fun | Gershwinesque | main title | setting | street | upbeat |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Painting) | 0:50:45 - The boys paint their room | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | comedy | comical | gang | painting | reformatory | setting | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Mechanical) | 0:54:46 - Boys get to work | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | altered dominant | boiler room | coal | danger | fire | fire | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | sequence | shoveling | smoke | teenager | temperature | temperature | working |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Explosion) | 0:56:04 - The boiler explodes | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | boiler room | collapsing | escaping | exploding | explosion | foreign key modulation | frantic | gang | mechanical | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | worker | yelling |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy | 0:00:25 - Director credit | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | bold | cast list | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | heroic | main title | opening title sequence | tritone substitution |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Bicycle | 0:14:42 - Newspaper boy on bicycle | 9th chord | 13th chord | bicycle | cheerful | mickey-mousing | newspaper | newspaper boy | riding | street | throwing | transition |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy (Dolce) | 0:28:20 - Peggy talks to Johnnie | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | heroine | kissing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | nursing | recovering | romance | room | sweet | tender |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy (Delicatissimo) | 0:49:16 - Johnnie and Peggy kiss | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | hero | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | romantic | room |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae | 0:01:26 - Lute Mae's Roadhouse | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | bluesy | club | countermelody | dancing | eating | establish setting | musician | on-screen music | playing | self-borrowing | simulated source music | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Tenderly) | 0:29:32 - Lane and Field prepare to leave | 11th chord | 13th chord | altered dominant | common-tone diminished 7th | kissing | lake | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | romance | romantic | secondary dominant | source to score |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (A Reminiscence) | 0:42:04 - A female prisoner talks about Lute Mae's | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | bluesy | conversing | countermelody | Gershwinesque | leading lady | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | countermelody | cut from film | cut from film | deceptive resolution | lovers meet | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Quasi Blues) | 0:51:46 - Dan flirts with Lane | 13th chord | added-note chord | conversing | countermelody | flirting | flirty | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room | self-borrowing | sultry | thematic transference |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Driving) | 0:53:02 - Lane drives Dan to the construction site | 13th chord | added-note chord | arriving | car | car | comical | common-chord modulation | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | politician | rushed | self-borrowing | transition | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Tenderly) | 1:03:37 - Dan is grateful for Lane's gift to him | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | comical | common-chord modulation | conversing | embracing | happy | husband | leading lady | leading man | maid | room | self-borrowing | tender | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Tenderly) | 1:07:55 - Dan kisses Lane | 13th chord | added-note chord | bluesy | husband | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | self-borrowing | tender | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Delicato) | 1:33:28 - Lane smiles as Dan | 13th chord | added-note chord | crying | delicate | husband | kissing | leading lady | leading man | prison | resolution | reuniting | romance | self-borrowing | sentimental | wife |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Con Moto) | 0:22:19 - Roy talks about Stanley's letter | 13th chord | angry | bitter | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | father | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | letter | parallelism | pc set | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Molto Expressivo) | 1:12:57 - Stanley talks with Roy | 13th chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | calm | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | leading lady | lying | room |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Poco Con Moto) | 0:54:53 - Joan and Vergie talk about the future | 13th chord | altered dominant | conversing | dissonant bass | gentle | leading lady | leading man | longing | love scene | outside | pedal tone | secret love | secret lover | sigh gesture |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Tender) | 1:05:45 - Ranny leaves with Joan | 13th chord | conflict | daughter | leading man | leaving | love interest | peaceful | pedal tone | room | wife |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Romantic) | 1:39:42 - David comforts Leni | 9th chord | 13th chord | comforting | conversing | hero | heroine | love scene | prison | romantic | underscoring |
| Sing and Like It (1934) | King Kong March | 0:58:31 - Annie's name in lights | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | arriving | binary form | boss | common-tone diminished 7th | critic | crowd | dressing room | fanfare | fanfare | gangster | leading lady | lobby | mode mixture | neon lights | parallelism | self-borrowing | singer | street | theater | worker |
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