| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | La Parisienne | 0:12:55 - A shot of Paris | 64 chord | augmented sixth chord | enharmonic modulation | establish place | establish time | fanfare | foreign key modulation | noble | on-screen text | patriotic tune | street | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Arriving | 0:13:14 - Henriette gets out of the carriage | arriving | augmented sixth chord | carriage | driver | enharmonic modulation | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | pleasant | street | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Tranquillo 2) | 0:34:17 - Henriette comforts Raynald | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | child | comforting | common-chord modulation | conversing | dark | delicate | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel 63s | room | suspension |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald (Andante) | 0:41:36 - Henriette and the Duke by Raynald's bedside | 9th chord | 64 chord | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic sequence | conversing | duke | governess | hopeful | illness | illness scene | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | room | solemn | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Music Box) | 0:54:04 - Henriette puts Louise to bed | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | calm | child | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | goodnight | governess | happy | leading lady | lullaby | mode mixture | music box | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Sweepingly) | 1:02:57 - Henriette with tears in her eyes | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | chromatic mediant | conflict | conversing | deceptive resolution | duke | foreign key modulation | governess | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | pedal tone | romance | romantic | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Isabelle | 1:07:33 - Isabelle cries | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic sequence | comforting | crying | governess | leading lady | room | sequence | serious | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Carousel | 1:26:22 - A spinning carousel | 64 chord | amusement park | augmented sixth chord | bright | carousel | child | enharmonic modulation | foreign key modulation | fun | mode mixture | on-screen text | pedal tone | riding | spinning | transition | upbeat |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time (Ominous) | 1:31:04 - The children enter the palace | 9th chord | 64 chord | augmented sixth chord | bright | cheerful | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | deceptive resolution | diminished third chord | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | ominous | palace | surprise | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Dramatic) | 1:52:48 - Soldiers confront Henriette | accusing | arresting | augmented sixth chord | conflict | landlady | leading lady | ominous | realizing | room | soldier | suspect | tense |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Walking | 0:44:39 - The watchman walks | augmented sixth chord | darkness | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Turning on light | 0:44:51 - The watchman turns on a light | augmented sixth chord | guard | lamp | light | light | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | turning on |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Light and Shadow) | 0:44:51 - The watchman goes about his work | augmented sixth chord | criminal | flashlight | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | shadow | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Shadow punch | 0:45:00 - Watchman is punched by a shadowy figure | attacking | augmented sixth chord | crime | criminal | dramatic | fighting | gangster | guard | punching | robbery | shadow | store | violence | whole-tone |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Rocky and Laury (Not In Film 1) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | common-chord modulation | conversing | cut from film | establish character | following | gangster | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | street | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Rocky and Laury (Not In Film 2) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | conversing | cut from film | establish character | following | gangster | leading lady | leading man | street | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Hostage) | 1:25:07 - Rocky pushes Jerry | augmented sixth chord | conflict | double-cross | gangster | hostage | leading man | mysterious | priest | pushing | street | tense |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:20:51 - Eddie dreams | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | eating | fragmentation | frantic | half-diminished 7th chord | humming | leading man | room | scored source music | sequence | source music |
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) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:50:55 - Young people dancing | AABA structure | arguing | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | dance hall | dance scene | dancing | friend | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | source music |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 0:01:20 - Fans yelling at a ball game | augmented sixth chord | baseball | baseball player | bass drum | cheering | crowd | enharmonic modulation | establish place | evaded cadence | falling | familiar tune | field | fighting | musician | parallel double period | pep band | playing | popular song | punching | rushed | saxophone | simulated source music | source music | sporting event | trombone | umpire | upbeat | yelling |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Entering | NIF - not in film | arriving | augmented sixth chord | deleted scene | entering | gentle | leading man | not in score | parallel 63s | parallelism | private eye | room | transition | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Action) | 0:57:01 - Marlowe runs to his car | 64 chord | assassin | augmented sixth chord | chase scene | chasing | common-tone diminished 7th | dramatic | fragmentation | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | running | sequential modulation | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Driving | 1:14:54 - Marlowe and Vivian in the car | augmented sixth chord | car | car | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mickey-mousing | oscillation | ostinato | private eye | tense |
| 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) | Marie (Main Title) | NIF - not in film | augmented sixth chord | car | cut from film | dark | guard | leading lady | looking | opening title sequence | police car | prisoner | tense |
Caged (1950) | Prison | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | conversing | cut from film | dark | exiting | guard | leading lady | opening title sequence | police car | prison | prisoner | suspension | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Marie | 0:08:04 - Marie poses for mugshot | augmented sixth chord | camera | dissonant bass | establish character | guard | leading lady | mug shot | photographer | photographing | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | somber |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Tragic) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | cut from film | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | guard | leading lady | pc set | prison | prisoner | standing | uneasy |
Caged (1950) | Mrs. Benton (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | comforting | common-tone modulation | crying | cut from film | disbelief | establish character | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | office | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | realization | warden |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Expressivo) | 0:32:12 - The prison laundry | alarm | augmented sixth chord | augmented triad | bell | double exposure | dramatic | guard | leading lady | metric displacement | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | roll call | working |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:47 - Marie working in the prison laundry | alarm | alarm effect | augmented sixth chord | bell | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | quick cuts | underscoring | working |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Dark) | 0:32:55 - Marie's medical report | augmented sixth chord | dark | double exposure | infirmary | leading lady | medical report | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | working |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Slowly) | 0:35:14 - Marie talks to Kitty | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | chromatic mediant | conversing | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | prison | prisoner | sickness | sigh gesture | solemn | uneasy |
Caged (1950) | Prison (Tragic) | 0:52:48 - Marie calls after her mother | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | chromatic sequence | despair | dramatic | leading lady | mother | nurse | pleading | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | tragic | turning point |
| 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 (Farewell) | 0:55:31 - Peggy bids farewell to Danny | 9th chord | appoggiatura | augmented sixth chord | conversing | crying | embracing | enharmonic respelling | farewell scene | leading lady | leading man | leaving | mode mixture | plagal cadence | romantic | sentimental | street |
| Crime School (1938) | Sue (Minor) | 0:20:38 - Judge sentences boys to the reformatory | augmented sixth chord | chromatic parallelism | courthouse | crying | dissonant bass | gang | heroine | judge | leading lady | leading man | sister | somber | stinger | teenager | trial |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Arena | 1:01:22 - A fight poster | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | dark | detective | fanfare | leading man | light | polytonality | poster | street | thinking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Lying | 1:25:16 - Johnnie lies to Peggy about where he's going | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | climax | common-chord modulation | detective | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | lying | minor-major 7th chord | room | turbulent |
| 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 (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) | Dust Be My Destiny (Waiting) | 0:29:38 - Joe and Mabel talk about getting married | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love scene | romantic | street | waiting |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Thankful) | 0:51:24 - Joe, Mabel, and Nick talk in the car | augmented sixth chord | escape | friend | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper | thankful | train station |
| 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 |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Morendo) | 0:15:43 - Roy responds to Peter | added-note chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | conversing | embracing | leading lady | leading man | room | serious | somber |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Morendo 2) | 0:49:54 - Roy reacts to the bad news | added-note chord | appoggiatura | augmented sixth chord | conversing | father | leading lady | leading man | mode change | room | serious | somber | suicide | turning point | uncle |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Tender) | 0:54:15 - Roy tucks Stanley in | 64 chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | conversing | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | room | sister | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Uncle Fitzroy | 1:04:26 - Uncle Fitzroy talks to Stanley | augmented sixth chord | conflict | conversing | crying | dancing | flirting | leading lady | room | solemn | uncle | whole-tone chord | widow |
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 Informer (1935) | Poster blowing 1 | 0:03:05 - Torn poster blows down the street onto Gypo's leg | augmented sixth chord | blowing | establish character | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallelism | poster | street | wind |
The Informer (1935) | Mary | 0:38:47 - Rebels talk about Frankie's sister Mary | 64 chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | conversing | deceptive resolution | headquarters | love | mode mixture | rebel | romantic | room | Scotch snap |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Gypo is Drunk) | 0:46:36 - Gypo tells the rebel about "somebody waiting for me" | advance plot | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | breaking | drunk | leading man | street | transcribed by ear | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Mistaken Identity) | 0:52:34 - Gypo thinks he sees Katie, but it's someone else | advance plot | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | hallucinating | hallucination | leading lady | leading man | party | sentimental | transcribed by ear |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Laughing) | 1:09:04 - Gypo laughs at Peter | accusing | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | bold | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | leading man | octatonic | room | serious | suspect |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Distraught) | 1:25:39 - Leslie cries | augmented sixth chord | climax | crying | dramatic | emotional | foreign key modulation | home | leading lady | oscillation | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Very Slow) | 1:29:01 - Leslie rejects Robert | augmented sixth chord | changing meter | climax | enharmonic respelling | home | leading lady | oscillation | sequence | somber | stern | weeping |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | News Office | 0:03:08 - Newspaper headlines about the trial | augmented sixth chord | conversing | diminished third chord | frantic | headline | newspaper | newspaper editor | office | telephone | transition |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 3 | 0:18:52 - Shelly puts down her candle | actor | augmented sixth chord | candle | common-chord modulation | concerned | establish character | leading lady | leading man | room | sequence | suspect | unpacking | walking | worried |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Triste) | 0:38:59 - Trev enters the store | actor | advance plot | arriving | augmented sixth chord | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | looking | mode mixture | Neapolitan | somber | staring | store | suspect | watching | whispering | worker |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Murder) | 0:01:59 - Bullet holes in the mirror | 11th chord | augmented sixth chord | dark | death | dying | leaving | murder | murder scene | room | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert (Triste) | 0:24:26 - Bert and Mildred separate | augmented sixth chord | breaking up | crying | establish character | fragmentation | heroine | husband | leading lady | leaving | Neapolitan | pedal tone | room | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Mourning) | 0:56:07 - Mildred mourns Kay's death | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | child | death | death scene | doctor | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | mourning | nurse | patient | room | sick person | somber | turning point |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Subtle) | 1:09:27 - bill; photograph; gun | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | conversing | friend | heroine | leading lady | mode mixture | room | subtle | voice-over |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Agitato) | 1:22:22 - Veda and her mother argue | agitated | antagonist | arguing | augmented sixth chord | blackmail | chromatic sequence | conflict | daughter | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert (Somber) | 1:37:06 - Bert talks with Mildred in her new house | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | conversing | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | pedal tone | room | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Agitato) | 1:46:05 - Veda reveals that she is in love with Monte | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | betrayal | betraying | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | dark | daughter | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | revealing | room | tense |
| 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 |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle | 0:00:14 - Title of the film | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | cast list | folk-like | harbor | opening title sequence | peaceful | pedal tone | title of film |
| Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Sentimental) | 1:10:39 - People are sad as the radio plays | AABA structure | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | countermelody | crying | leading lady | leading man | popular song | radio | resolution | room | salesman | sentimental | somber | transcribed by ear |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Somber) | 0:22:24 - Bob comforts Chris | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | comfort | comforting | common-chord modulation | husband | leading lady | love scene | mode mixture | ostinato | pedal tone | room | somber | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Somber 2) | 1:00:01 - Chris thinks | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | conversing | foreign key modulation | husband | leading lady | mode mixture | ostinato | room | somber | tender |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Transition | 0:00:18 - Book pages showing main cast | augmented sixth chord | cast list | chromatic scale | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | tense |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Max Steiner | 0:00:53 - Max Steiner's name | augmented sixth chord | bold | cast list | common-chord modulation | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Doctor | 0:08:10 - David sees Tommy (his patient) | augmented sixth chord | boy | cat | delicate | establish character | foreign key modulation | gentle | hero | office |
| High Stakes (1931) | Hymn | 0:04:46 - They get married | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | bride | calm | groom | hymn | marrying | priest | source music | wedding |
| Transgression (1931) | There's a Sob In My Heart (Ballroom) | 0:28:18 - Robert arrives at the party | AABA structure | augmented sixth chord | calm | club | conversing | dancing | husband | leading lady | party | self-borrowing | sophisticated | source music |
| Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | The Prisoner's Song | 0:01:11 - Prisoners in a prison yard | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | establish place | establish setting | mode mixture | prison | somber | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Close to Me | 0:13:53 - William and Peggy talk in a dressing room | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | Broadway | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | dancer | Gypsy major scale | leading man | popular music | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Mildred Waltz | 0:19:03 - Mildred talks with William | ABA structure | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | boat | calm | conversing | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Mildred Waltz | 0:20:18 - Mildred has a drink with William | ABA structure | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | boat | calm | diminished 7th chord | drinking | leading lady | leading man | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Mildred Waltz | 0:21:43 - Mildred talks with William | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | boat | calm | conversing | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | transcribed by ear |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Dramatic Agitato | 0:12:41 - Hazel screams | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | letter | murder | murderer | murder scene | newspaper | room | screaming | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
| Headline Shooter (1933) | King Kong March | 1:00:16 - The End | augmented sixth chord | end title | march | mode mixture | reused recording | The End | upbeat |
| Sing and Like It (1934) | Your Mother (Opening Title) | 0:00:21 - Cast list | AABA structure | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | cast list | jazz | mode mixture | opening title sequence | radio | room | secondary dominant | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (The End) | 1:29:03 - The End | augmented sixth chord | end title sequence | The End | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Mildred Waltz | 0:24:13 - Bob and Letty go for a walk | ABA structure | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | calm | conversing | diminished 7th chord | gangster | imposter | leading man | love interest | street | transcribed by ear | walking | waltz |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:39:59 - Bob (Bat) pulls a gun on Grace | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | confronting | fragmentation | frantic | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mirror shot | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | popular music | reacting | room | screaming | sequence | shooting | simulated source music | source music | staring | tense | threatening | victim |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Mildred Waltz | 0:46:46 - Pete looks at police sketches | ABA structure | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | calm | conversing | detective | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | reporter | room |
| Caged (1950) | Mrs. Benton (Not in Film 4) | NIF - not in film | augmented sixth chord | chromatic mediant | cut from film | cut scene | foreign key modulation | solemn |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Misterioso) | 1:17:04 - Shadows on a staircase | augmented sixth chord | descending | guard | leading lady | mad scene | prison | prisoner | shadow | solemn | solitary | walking |
Caged (1950) | Marie (The End) | 1:36:04 - Mrs. Benton and her secretary | augmented sixth chord | climax | closing credits | conversing | prison | somber | warden |
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