| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:41:20 - Police car arrives | arriving | conflict | crowd | rushing | shop | street | tense | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Rocky and Laury | 0:41:37 - Laury pushes her way through the crowd | arriving | close-up | conflict | heartbroken | leading lady | love interest | rushing | sentimental | shop |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Car slowing down | 0:42:10 - Car slows down | advance plot | arriving | car | gangster | garage | lawyer | mysterious | slowing | stopping |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:05:58 - Jerry goes to meet Rocky | advance plot | arriving | gangster | leading man | mysterious | priest | room | underscoring | waiting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Concern | 1:21:00 - Jerry arrives on the scene | arriving | concerned | conflict | crowd | gun | gunshot | hurried | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | priest | pushing | street | yearning |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Tear Gas) | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | combination of themes | conflict | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas (Jerry) | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | combination of themes | conflict | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Arriving) | 0:25:42 - Johnnie talks to Peggy | arriving | establish character | leading lady | leading man | ranch | teenager | tired |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Arriving | 0:26:52 - Joe and Mabel settle into their new situation | arriving | calm | city | dramatic | hero | heroine | settling down | traveling | traveling | truck |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Don’t Give Up the Ship | 0:26:47 - Orchestra made up of prisoners plays | arriving | entering | military band | murder scene | on screen music | orchestra | patriotic | prison | prisoner | source music |
| The Informer (1935) | The Wearin’ o’ the Green (Mysterious) | 0:08:57 - Frankie enters the Dunboy house to join the rebels | arriving | diminished 7th chord | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | hero | Irish | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | room | street | tense |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Risoluto) | 1:20:12 - Rebels plan to catch Gypo | advance plot | arriving | headquarters | octatonic | planning | rebel | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
| The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:06:21 - Robert goes in the house | arriving | home | husband | tense | transition | underscoring |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sehr Dramatic) | 0:12:06 - Mildred arrives home | advance plot | arriving | dark | daughter | dramatic | heroine | leading lady | street | tense | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Hall of Justice | 0:13:35 - The Los Angeles Hall of Justice | advance plot | arriving | bold | detective | entering | heroine | justice | leading lady | police | police station | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert | 0:20:18 - Bert comes home | arriving | cooking | establish character | flashback | gentle | heroine | husband | leading lady | room | self-borrowing | street |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Beach House | 0:42:49 - They drive up to the beach house | arriving | beach house | driving | friend | heroine | leading lady | ocean | peaceful | transition | water | wave |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:42:58 - Mildred and Wally walk to the house | arriving | beach house | excited | friend | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | ocean | transition | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Angry) | 1:18:21 - Mildred walks out of an argument | aggressive | angry | arriving | conflict | heroine | hurrying | leading lady | leaving | room | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred B (Twist) | 1:45:20 - Mildred walks into the beach house | arriving | climax | dark | flashback | heroine | leading lady | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:45:25 - Mildred walks downstairs | arriving | climax | dark | heroine | leading lady | ominous | room |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Heart’s Affair (Arriving) | 0:58:30 - Ward arrives in car to visit Marie | arriving | farm | leading man | love scene | newspaper | not by Steiner | playful | reading | sister | transcribed by ear |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Doublecross (Heated) | 1:16:02 - Nick arrives at the farm | advance plot | arguing | arriving | farm | leading man | manager | not by Steiner | sister | tense | transcribed by ear |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris | 0:01:26 - Chris arrives at home | arriving | Beverly Hills | calm | establish character | house | leading lady |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Dramatic) | 0:44:05 - Chris goes to visit Larry's office | advance plot | arriving | fanfare | heroic | law office | leading lady | mode mixture | office |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Drone) | 0:51:08 - Chris enters the art shop | advance plot | arriving | leading lady | ostinato | shop | shopkeeper | somber |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Distressed) | 0:52:17 - Chris returns home | advance plot | arriving | forlorn | leading lady | maid | minor-major 7th chord | obsession | ostinato | room | tense |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Attorney (Doorbell) | 0:53:31 - Chris takes off her jacket | advance plot | arriving | heroic | lawyer | leading lady | room | stinger | surprise |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 1:10:47 - Bob walks upstairs to meet with Mrs. Tanner | altered dominant | antagonist | arriving | foreshadowing | husband | quartal chord | street | syncopation | tense | transition | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Risoluto) | 1:14:27 - Bob arrives home | angry | arriving | car | driving | house | husband | monophonic | transition |
| 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 |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:19:30 - Eddie arrives home | advance plot | arriving | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 0:11:11 - Steve knocks on door | advance plot | arriving | conductor score | investigator | leading man | pleasant | porch | walking |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hell on Frisco Bay | 0:24:15 - Steve goes home | advance plot | arriving | conductor score | leading man | room | sentimental |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 0:32:34 - Steve investigates | advance plot | arriving | conductor score | investigator | leading man | neutral | street | walking |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve Arrives | 0:54:56 - Steve arrives at an apartment | arriving | conductor score | investigator | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | street | tense | transition | walking |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:08:39 - Amato arrives | advance plot | antagonist | arriving | brash | conductor score | dark | gangster | leading man | stinger | street |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Kay | 1:29:11 - Steve enters with Kay | arriving | entering | investigator | leading lady | leading man | love interest | room | somber | turning point | witness |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:35:05 - The police arrive | action scene | arriving | conversing | dock | leading lady | police | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 1:36:57 - The police boat leaves | agitated | arriving | boat | dock | gangster | inspector | leading man | police | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 1:37:30 - Steve gets off the boat | arriving | boat | bold | dock | gangster | heroic | inspector | leading man | police |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hell on Frisco Bay | 1:37:36 - Steve goes to his wife | arriving | dock | gentle | inspector | leading lady | leading man | romantic |
