The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 2 | 0:00:27 - Cast list | 9th chord | beaker | bubbling | cast list | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | ostinato | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Knocked Out) | 0:45:04 - Watchman knocked out on the floor | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | stealing | store | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Spiraling down | 0:47:38 - Doctor goes down the stairs | 9th chord | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | doctor | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | spiraling | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:52:15 - Policemen report the alarm | 9th chord | operator | reporting | robbery | room | telephone | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo (At the Phone) | 0:59:24 - Rocks takes the phone apart | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | dark | gangster | leading lady | ominous | plotting | room | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Funebre) | 1:10:07 - Dr. Clitterhouse talks with Jo | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | death | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | pleading | realizing | tense |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Cartoon | 1:04:49 - Jerry looks at newspaper cartoon of Rocky | 9th chord | advance plot | cartoon | chromatic parallelism | comical | leading man | priest | reading | room |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Headlines | 1:10:28 - A montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | 42 chord | 64 chord | dramatic | foreign key modulation | headline | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | newspaper editor | newspaper office | spinning | zooming |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pleading | 1:11:08 - Laury pleads for Rocky | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | crying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleading | priest | room | somber |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry | 1:11:35 - Jerry talks to Laury | 9th chord | advance plot | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love interest | memory | pleading | priest | room | tender |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pleading (Extended) | 1:21:00 - Jerry arrives on the scene | 9th chord | appoggiatura | arriving | chromatic sequence | circle of fifths | concerned | conflict | crowd | gun | gunshot | hurried | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | polychord | priest | pushing | street | yearning |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Triste) | 1:23:57 - Rocky uses Jerry as a hostage | 9th chord | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | coughing | dark | double-cross | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gangster | hostage | leading man | linear chromaticism | major 7th chord | menacing | polychord | priest | smoke | somber | street | tear gas | walking |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Alternate Version) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | AABA structure | cheerful | cut from film | dance hall |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Hey! Hey! | 0:50:14 - Eddie and Flo dance | 9th chord | AABA structure | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | dance hall | dance scene | dancing | friend | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Transition 9) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | altered dominant | cut from film | dark | mysterious | pc set | tragic | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Transition 13) + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Transition 13) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | added-note chord | chromatic sequence | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | dramatic | plagal cadence | somber |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Screwy Gavotte) | 0:00:39 - Cast list | 9th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | cast list | happy | opening title sequence | ostinato | pedal tone | upbeat |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Comical) | 0:05:05 - Goofy man turns around | 9th chord | comical | common-tone diminished 7th | establish character | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | marriage | office | smiling | winking |
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 |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Molto Agitato | 1:29:57 - Jonathan ties Mortimer to a chair | 9th chord | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | conflict | crazy person | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | gagging | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | stinger | tying | victim |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Russian Waltz | 0:30:05 - Philip arrives at Florence's home | 9th chord | arriving | calm | chromatic sequence | common-tone diminished 7th | establish setting | fugitive | leading man | mansion | mode mixture | on-screen music | piano | playing | pleasant | source music | waltz | wandering |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Morning Glory Waltz (Radio) | 0:57:06 - Philip talks with Alice | 9th chord | advance plot | conversing | daughter | fugitive | gentle | leading lady | leading man | mansion | mode mixture | radio | score to source | sentimental | source music | transcribed by ear | walking |
Crime School (1938) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Starring and cast list | 9th chord | cast list | dissonant bass | dominant pedal | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | tense | title of film |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:09:40 - Spike is captured by the cops | 9th chord | arresting | capturing | conflict | dramatic | police | street | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:01 - Frankie escapes from the warden's office | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | mickey-mousing | ostinato | reformatory | running | teenager | tense | throwing | tone cluster | warden | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Spots | 0:49:20 - Squirt has spots on his pajamas | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | comedy | comical | conversing | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | paint | reformatory | spots | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:11:24 - Boys plot their escape | 9th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | escape | gang | plotting | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Allegretto) | 1:24:18 - Boys talk about Sue | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | courthouse | fragmentation | gang | optimistic | resolution | sequence | teenager |
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) | Traveling | 0:22:25 - Johnnie becomes a fugitive | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | countryside | double exposure | dramatic | leading man | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | purchasing | street | traveling | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Triste) | 0:23:12 - Johnnie at a diner | 9th chord | advance plot | diner | leading man | money | somber | thinking | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive | 0:24:29 - Johnnie walks | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | desert | foreign key modulation | leading man | Neapolitan | tired | traveling | walking | wandering |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Looking Around) | 0:25:11 - The young man sees Johnnie | 9th chord | deceptive resolution | establish character | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | ranch | teenager | tired | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Date picking | 0:25:21 - Boys picking dates | 9th chord | establish character | light | ranch | sequence | step modulation | teenager | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Arriving) | 0:25:42 - Johnnie arrives at the ranch | 9th chord | arriving | establish character | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | ranch | teenager | tired |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Fainting) | 0:26:32 - Johnnie stumbles and faints | 9th chord | dark | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | establish character | fainting | falling | foreign key modulation | leading man | ranch | tired | tragic | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tender) | 0:26:58 - Peggy helps Johnnie | 9th chord | 64 chord | heroine | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mode mixture | nursing | room | tender | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Recovering) | 0:27:13 - Peggy takes care of Johnnie | 9th chord | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | nursing | recovering | romance | room | sweet | waking |
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) | The Fugitive (Apology) | 0:48:31 - Johnnie and Peggy talk | 9th chord | conversing | hero | leading lady | leading man | love scene | romantic | room | secondary dominant | 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 |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Ashamed) | 1:03:55 - Johnnie tells them he can't fight | 9th chord | conflict | dark | foreign key modulation | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | lying | room | somber | teenager |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Heartbreak) | 1:06:05 - Johnny talks to Peggy | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | room | slamming | somber | tense |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Tenderly) | 1:07:57 - Tommy talks to Johnnie | 9th chord | ABAB structure | altered dominant | arguing | chromatic mediant | conversing | direct modulation | foreign key modulation | hero | leading man | room | tender | turning point |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Religioso) | 1:09:41 - Johnnie looks at a picture | 9th chord | hero | leading man | Neapolitan | room | tender | thinking | turning point |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Appassionato) | 1:25:51 - Peggy wants to go with Johnnie | 9th chord | altered dominant | climax | detective | embracing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | leaving | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | pedal tone | romantic | room | sentimental | sigh gesture | tender |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (End Cast) | 1:31:03 - End titles | 9th chord | added-note chord | closing credits | end title | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | not by Steiner | plagal cadence | upbeat |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening B) | 0:00:49 - Cast list | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | blues | bluesy | cast list | dust | main title | mode mixture | opening title sequence |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening A2) | 0:01:04 - Cast list | 9th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | dust | main title | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | romantic |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:02:29 - Joe reacts to the warden | 9th chord | 64 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dramatic | establish character | injustice | leading man | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (In Love) | 0:22:04 - Mabel and Joe talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | barn | common-tone diminished 7th | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | romantic | secondary dominant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Expressivo) | 0:23:38 - Joe and Mabel talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | barn | common-tone diminished 7th | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | romantic | secondary dominant | sequence |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Running | 0:26:05 - Joe and Mabel run | 9th chord | barn | conflict | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | octatonic | running |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Arriving | 0:26:52 - Joe and Mabel settle into their new situation | 9th chord | arriving | calm | dramatic | freedom | leading lady | leading man | runaway | settling down | street | traveling | traveling scene | truck |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (In Love) | 0:27:22 - Joe and Mabel talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | common-tone diminished 7th | freedom | gentle | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | runaway | secondary dominant | street | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Here Comes the Bride (Triple) | 0:30:31 - Man talks to Joe and Mabel | 9th chord | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | courthouse | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | love scene | marriage | producer | pump-up modulation | romantic | sequence | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:35:25 - Joe and Mabel talk in the alley | 9th chord | alley | chromatic parallelism | escape | fearful | leading lady | leading man | runaway | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:38:00 - Joe and Mabel argue | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | runaway | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (In Love) | 0:43:51 - Mabel and Nick talk | 9th chord | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Goodbye) | 0:51:35 - Joe and Mabel say goodbye to Nick | 9th chord | escape | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | popular song | shopkeeper | tender | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Grandioso) | 0:52:06 - Joe and Mabel leave on a train | 9th chord | 64 chord | calm | escape | familiar tune | friend | leading lady | leading man | popular song | shopkeeper | sweet | tender | train station | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Not In Film) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | cut from film | sequence |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Sehr Ominous) | 0:56:14 - Joe walks towards the shop | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | crime scene | criminal | leading man | mysterious | sequence | shop | shopkeeper | street | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Cantor | 0:56:34 - Joe talks to a Jewish shopkeeper | 9th chord | crime scene | criminal | Gypsy minor scale | Jewish | kind | leading man | shop | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Reunited) | 0:58:04 - Joe embraces Mabel | 9th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | embracing | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love scene | romantic | room | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Cornered) | 1:12:21 - Mabel and Joe decide what to do | 9th chord | conflict | hero | hospital | inversion | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | tense |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:05:24 - Frank is framed for drunk driving | 9th chord | attacking | car | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | minor second | murder | pushing | reporter | setup | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Hits with bottle | 0:05:26 - A bottle of alcohol is broken | 9th chord | bottle | breaking | conflict | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reporter | street | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:06 - Crowd accuses Frank of murder | 9th chord | accusing | car crash | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | injury | leading man | linear chromaticism | police | reporter | sequence | shaking | street | underscoring | yelling |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines | 0:41:50 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Frank (Parole Denied) | 1:07:58 - Frank's parole is denied | 9th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | dark | despair | foreign key modulation | half-diminished 7th chord | hopeful | leading man | letter | prison | prisoner | reading | sigh gesture | solemn | turning point |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition (Extended) | 1:28:35 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Frank (Released) | 1:28:49 - Frank is released | 9th chord | altered dominant | artwork in score | conclusion | embracing | friend | gentle | goodbye | leading lady | leading man | Neapolitan | passionate | peaceful |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | On the Make | 1:31:02 - Closing credits | 9th chord | 11th chord | ABAB structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | closing credits | end title sequence | jaunty | linear chromaticism | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Crime School | 0:00:08 - Starring list | 9th chord | dramatic | opening title sequence | parallelism | self-borrowing | starring list | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | altered dominant | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | police | room | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Not in Film 2) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | newspaper editor | office | whole-tone chord |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Somber) | 0:40:31 - Field talks to Lane's co-worker | 9th chord | 11th chord | advance plot | café | common-tone diminished 7th chord | conversing | coworker | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | reverse picardy | sigh gesture | somber |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Chromatic) | 0:50:24 - Lane ties Dan's tie | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dark | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Bluesy) | 0:55:00 - Dan buys some cold drinks | 9th chord | altered dominant | bluesy | flirting | foreshadowing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mode mixture | parallelism | politician | porch | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Agitato) | 1:18:50 - Dan gets upset with Lane | 9th chord | accusing | angry | augmented sixth chord | conflict | fragmentation | husband | leading lady | leading man | politician | quartal chord | room | self-borrowing | wife |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Bridge) | 0:00:46 - Shadows move across the screen behind the cast list | 9th chord | cast list | informer | march | marching | mysterious | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Dublin) | 0:01:03 - Title card establishes the setting in Dublin, Ireland | 9th chord | 11th chord | establish setting | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | nun | opening title sequence | religious symbolism | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | street | title card | tritone substitution |
The Informer (1935) | The Minstrel Boy | 0:25:32 - Man sings a folk tune at the street corner | 9th chord | AABA structure | advance plot | angelic | antagonist | calm | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | leading man | listening | mode mixture | mourner | mourning | on-screen music | playing | praying | singer | singing | street | violinist | watching |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Thinking) | 0:49:37 - Gypo looks at the money and the poster | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | leading man | money | pondering | sentimental | street |
The Informer (1935) | Falling down the stairs | 1:06:19 - Gypo falls down the stairs | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | courtroom scene | down | dramatic | falling | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | stairs | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Confession) | 1:16:00 - Gypo confesses and cries | 9th chord | altered dominant | antagonist | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | guilt | half-diminished 7th chord | headquarters | leading man | pedal tone | pedal tone | remorseful | room | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:20:24 - Rebels plan how to catch Gypo | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | bold | fanfare | headquarters | hurrying | planning | rebel | room | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie | 0:00:11 - The Letter | 9th chord | changing meter | main title | minor-major 7th chord | opening title sequence | oscillation | sequence | suspension | tense | title of film |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rubato) | 0:00:44 - Cast list | 9th chord | cast list | changing meter | main title | minor-major 7th chord | opening title sequence | oscillation | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tense) | 0:34:20 - Howard tells Leslie about the letter | 9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | suspenseful | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Plotting) | 0:39:32 - Howard and Leslie plot their next move | 9th chord | advance plot | buildup | changing meter | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | minor-major 7th chord | ominous | oscillation | plotting | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Law Office (The Plea) | 0:40:00 - Howard asks Leslie to be honest | 9th chord | advance plot | anxious | artwork in score | chromatic sequence | conversing | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | refusing | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Wild) | 1:14:57 - Robert waits for a response | 9th chord | arguing | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | conflict | distress | fragmentation | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | lying | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Distress | 1:15:08 - Robert confronts the lawyer | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | distress | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Foxtrot No. 1 | 1:19:49 - Leslie getting ready for the party | 9th chord | advance plot | calm | dance music | foxtrot | home | leading lady | sitting | source music |
The Letter (1940) | Foxtrot No. 2 | 1:22:12 - Leslie joins the party | 9th chord | AABA structure | altered dominant | conversing | dance music | dancing | foxtrot | friend | happy | husband | leading lady | party | party | pump-up modulation | secondary dominant | source music |
The Letter (1940) | Foxtrot No. 3 | 1:23:25 - Robert talks to friends at the party | 9th chord | added-note chord | common-tone diminished 7th | contrasting period | conversing | dance music | drinking | foxtrot | friend | happy | husband | leading lady | party | party | source music |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | La Marseillaise | 0:28:48 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | altered dominant | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:51:06 - Joan talks with Vergie | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | daughter | foreign key modulation | gentle | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop | timid |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Delicato) | 0:51:39 - Joan talks with Vergie | 9th chord | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | gentle | leading lady | mother | parallel 63s | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:51:52 - Vergie gives Joan a fan | 9th chord | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | gentle | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:00:07 - Joan and Ranny talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | light | love interest | love scene | optimistic | proposal | proposing | room | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:02:11 - Joan and Ranny enter | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | arguing | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | room | surprise | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Dolcissimo) | 1:05:11 - Joan talks to Laura | 9th chord | conflict | daughter | leading man | love interest | peaceful | proposal | proposing | room | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Doloroso) | 1:05:58 - John talks with his wife Laura | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dark | leading man | leaving | reverse picardy | room | tense | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Dolce) | 1:08:00 - Vergie talks with John | 9th chord | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | leading lady | leading man | room | score to source | secret lover | tender |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Passionate) | 1:09:39 - John and Vergie embrace | 9th chord | advance plot | embracing | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | romantic | room | secret lover | tense |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Introduction) | 0:00:00 - The WB shield | 9th chord | appoggiatura | fanfare | jaunty | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | WB shield |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad | 0:00:09 - Title of the film | 9th chord | appoggiatura | cast list | common-tone diminished 7th | fanfare | jaunty | march-like | opening title sequence | parallel period |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Tender) | 1:39:15 - Nick speaks his final words | 9th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | appoggiatura | climax | death | dying | fanfare | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | manager | mode mixture | pedal tone | room | sister | somber | stretto imitation |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (End Title) | 1:41:09 - End cast | 9th chord | added-note chord | common-tone diminished 7th | end title sequence | fanfare | jaunty | march-like | mode mixture | plagal cadence |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Boy runs downstairs | 0:03:07 - Gerald runs down the stairs | 9th chord | altered dominant | antagonist | boy | child | chromatic mediant | down | downstairs | establish character | foreign key modulation | gentle | home | mickey-mousing | mother | pedal tone | playful | running |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Innocent) | 0:06:36 - Gerald runs inside | 9th chord | boy | child | classical music | comforting | common-tone diminished 7th | establish character | familiar tune | father | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | Haydn | hero | home | innocent | mode mixture | nagging | parallel fifths | playful | quotation | step modulation | tritone | Wagner |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Allergic Reaction | 0:09:04 - Tommy has an allergic reaction to the cat | 9th chord | 64 chord | allergies | boy | cat | doctor | dramatic | establish character | hero | office |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Tommy (Lyrical) | 0:09:34 - David gets some medicine for Tommy | 9th chord | boy | cat | doctor | establish character | gentle | hero | lyrical | Mozart | office | peaceful |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica | 0:10:01 - Jessica enters the room | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | establish character | half-diminished 7th chord | office | sour | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Better) | 0:23:55 - David puts his son in bed | 9th chord | advance plot | boy | calm | child | classical music | conversing | dark | familiar tune | father | foreign key modulation | Haydn | hero | home | playing | quotation | warm |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Ethereal) | 0:25:12 - David tells his son about his patient, Leni | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | boy | child | conversing | familiar tune | father | folk song | German | hero | home | mode mixture | pedal tone | quotation | sweet |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Newspaper) | 0:31:52 - David sits and whistles | 9th chord | classical music | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | foreshadowing | happy | Haydn | hero | home | ominous | quotation | reveal | transition | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Somber) | 0:38:52 - Leni reacts | 9th chord | antagonist | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | evaded cadence | familiar tune | folk song | garden | German | heroine | mode mixture | quotation | sentimental | sigh gesture | somber |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Dark) | 0:39:33 - Leni thinks to herself | 9th chord | antagonist | classical music | conflict | dark | familiar tune | garden | Haydn | heroine | quotation | suspension | thinking |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Barcarolle | 0:44:06 - Gerald talks about sailing | 9th chord | advance plot | barcarolle | boy | child | dissonant bass | heroine | home | hopeful | imagination | pedal tone | room | telling a story |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica | 0:45:10 - Jessica enters the room | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | home | mother | room | sour |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Crying) | 0:45:45 - Leni kisses Gerald | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | boy | child | crying | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | heroine | home | leaving | mode mixture | mother | quotation | room | sequence | somber | tritone |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Triste) | 0:51:10 - David talks to Leni | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | conversing | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | German | hero | heroine | home | quotation | room | somber |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | God Save the King (Angry) | 1:05:06 - British mobs in the street | 9th chord | angry | British | conflict | crowd | diminished 7th chord | familiar tune | mode mixture | patriotic | riot | rioting | street |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:25 - David is taken away by the police | 9th chord | added-note chord | arresting | conflict | hero | heroine | pedal tone | police | tense | train station | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | In Love | 1:30:55 - David realizes he is in love with Leni | 9th chord | courtroom | courtroom scene | hero | heroine | linear chromaticism | love scene | realization | realizing | romantic | suspension | testifying | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Tense) | 1:31:42 - News bulletins about the trial | 9th chord | advance plot | announcing | classical music | dark | familiar tune | Haydn | main theme | quotation | shop | sign | street | tense | window |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Death Sentence) | 1:33:07 - The judge sentences David and Leni to death | 9th chord | common-chord modulation | conflict | courtroom | courtroom scene | crowd | dark | familiar tune | folk song | German | quotation | reverse picardy | sentencing | verdict |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Hopeful) | 1:38:41 - David comforts Leni | 9th chord | comforting | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | German | hero | heroine | love scene | mode mixture | pedal tone | plagal cadence | prison | quotation | somber |
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 |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Heart Break | 1:40:11 - David and Leni kiss | 9th chord | appoggiatura | dissonant bass | first kiss | hero | heroine | kissing | love | love scene | mode mixture | passionate | pedal tone | prison | suspension |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:40:57 - David helps Leni | 9th chord | advance plot | conversing | delicate | helping | hero | heroine | octatonic scale | prison | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Restful) | 1:41:47 - David watches Leni sleep | 9th chord | advance plot | delicate | familiar tune | folk song | German | hero | heroine | mode mixture | plagal cadence | prison | quotation | watching |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Waiting | 1:46:39 - David asks about his execution | 9th chord | advance plot | hero | prison | somber | waiting |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Singing) | 1:50:32 - Gerald sings in the tub | 9th chord | 11th chord | boy | child | conclusion | death | familiar tune | folk song | German | home | peaceful | quotation | room |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (The End) | 1:51:01 - The End | 9th chord | end title sequence | familiar tune | folk song | German | grand | home | mode mixture | quotation | room | suspension | The End |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun (Introduction) | 0:00:15 - Title and cast list on placards | 9th chord | cheerful | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | sequence | syncopation | transcribed by ear |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Run Around | 1:01:51 - The End | 9th chord | altered dominant | end title sequence | mode mixture | self-borrowing | The End | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Transgression | 0:18:54 - Ms. Wren descends the staircase | 9th chord | AABA structure | advance plot | arriving | common-chord modulation | conversing | party | radio | romantic | self-borrowing | transcribed by ear |
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Lady | 0:20:17 - People talk at a party | 9th chord | AAB structure | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | dinner | party | peaceful | radio | sequence | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Romance 2) | 0:33:10 - Burns kisses Ursula | 9th chord | advance plot | kissing | leading lady | love interest | Neapolitan | romantic | room | secondary dominant | transcribed by ear | waltz |
Headline Shooter (1933) | You Bunch of Fun (Introduction) | 0:00:15 - Title and starring list over camera lens montage | 9th chord | boat | camera lens | car | cast list | cheerful | chromatic parallelism | kaleidoscope effect | opening title sequence | plane | racing | reused recording | sequence | split screen | title of film | transcribed by ear |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender | 0:22:44 - Packaged-up food | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | common-chord modulation | detective | direct modulation | food | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | ordering | reporter | store | worker | working |