| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running and shooting | 0:06:52 - Police chase gangsters and Rocky shoots | agent | augmented triad | chasing | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | dramatic | establish character | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | quartal chord | running | shooting | street | zoom out |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Transition 8B) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented triad | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | foreign key modulation | pedal tone | tense | turbulent |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dance Tune | NIF - not in film | augmented triad | bluesy | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | mode mixture |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Ominous) | 0:41:03 - Jonathan looks around the house | added-note chord | augmented triad | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading man | observing | ominous | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Expressivo) + Scar | 0:41:42 - Abby talks to Jonathan | altered dominant | augmented triad | aunt | brother | combination of themes | conversing | convincing | crazy person | criminal | distortion | doctor | establish character | expressive | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | ominous | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Face) | 0:42:29 - Jonathan talks about his scar | augmented triad | aunt | brother | chromatic parallelism | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | scar | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Tranquillo) | 0:43:40 - Jonathan sits down | augmented triad | aunt | brother | calm | chromatic parallelism | conversing | crazy person | criminal | direct modulation | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 (Ominous) | 1:00:36 - Jonathan backs Elaine into a corner | advance plot | anger | augmented triad | bride | brother | chromatic scale | crazy person | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | hurting | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | polychord | questioning | room | stinger | tense | threatening |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
| City for Conquest (1940) | The Words Are in My Heart | 0:29:31 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | augmented triad | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | gentle | leading lady | montage | source music | waltz |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shadow Waltz (Dancing) | 0:38:57 - Montage of dancing scenes | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented triad | dancing | double exposure | gentle | montage | shadow | stage | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Mysterioso | 1:13:36 - Googi leaves | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | criminal | gangster | leaving | locker room | manager | murder scene | mysterious | parallelism | whole-tone |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Hysterical) | 1:14:42 - Cobb pleads for mercy | augmented triad | begging | car | car | chromatic sequence | criminal | driving | equal division of octave | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden | 0:23:15 - Warden stands up to face the boys | antagonist | arguing | augmented triad | authority | chromatic parallelism | establish character | falling | gang | lightning | ominous | police | reformatory | slapping | stinger | teenager | warden | whole-tone chord |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe fights cow | 0:13:56 - Joe fights cow (off-screen) | augmented triad | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | cow | diminished 7th chord | fighting | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Headlines | 1:03:23 - Headline about the robbery | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic sequence | diner | dramatic | newspaper | newspaper boy | selling | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:10:32 - Joe runs after the car | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | running | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Brave) | 1:10:38 - Joe jumps onto the car | action scene | augmented triad | car | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fighting | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | street | whole-tone chord |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn A | 0:00:14 - Title of film | augmented triad | cast list | dark | diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | prison | title of film |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:12:32 - Titus throws Field out the door | augmented triad | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | dark | dramatic | leading man | politician | polychord | pushing | room | sheriff | throwing | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Mob | 1:28:20 - A mob forms outside of Lane's home | advance plot | angry | anxious | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | friend | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | mob | mobbing | ostinato | polyrhythm | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
| The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Extended) | 0:18:55 - British officer tosses money down on the table | antagonist | augmented triad | grabbing | leading man | money | mysterious | pivotal scene | police | police station | tense | tossing | tritone | whole-tone |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Worrying) | 0:21:57 - Gypo worries about what he has done | advance plot | antagonist | augmented triad | drinking | hearing voices | leading man | mysterious | planning | pub | tense | thinking | tritone | whole-tone | worrying |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Four Coins) | 0:23:15 - Bartender puts four coins on the table | advance plot | antagonist | augmented triad | bartender | coin | counting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | money | mysterious | placing | pub | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Blind Man + Blood Money | 0:24:45 - Blind man wanders in and Gypo gives him money | advance plot | antagonist | augmented triad | blind man | combination of themes | giving | leading lady | leading man | money | mysterious | ominous | street | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Delicato) | 0:28:43 - Gypo drops four coins on the floor | antagonist | augmented triad | coin | dropping | leading man | mickey-mousing | money | mourner | pivotal scene | room | staring | tense | whole-tone |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money | 1:00:57 - Rebels see Gypo spending money | advance plot | augmented triad | dark | money | party | rebel | spying | tritone |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape (The Fight) | 1:28:25 - Rebels shoot through the door | antagonist | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climax | down | dramatic | escaping | falling | fighting | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | running | tense | traitor | whole-tone |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:13:28 - Leslie continues her story | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | crying | dramatic | emotional | home | leading lady | oscillation | ostinato | passionate | pc set | recounting | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:14:07 - Leslie continues her story | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fragmentation | home | leading lady | pc set | polychord | recounting | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:34:47 - Howard gives Leslie the letter | altered dominant | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | deception | denying | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:35:11 - Leslie reacts angrily to the letter | arguing | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Denial | 0:35:39 - Leslie denies writing the letter | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pivotal scene | prison | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:37:07 - Howard reads the letter to Leslie | anxious | augmented triad | buildup | chromatic parallelism | fearful | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:40:57 - Leslie talks to Howard | advance plot | angry | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | deception | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | sequence | staring | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:45 - Robert asks to see the letter | arguing | augmented triad | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pc set | sequence | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 1:17:52 - Leslie confesses to Robert | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | ostinato | recounting | sequence | tense |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally tries to open door | 0:08:53 - Wally tries to open the door | action scene | augmented triad | chromatic scale | door | frantic | friend | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | stinger |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | City Fanfare | 0:32:24 - Bright lights of the city | advance plot | augmented triad | bold | city | light | not by Steiner | sign | street | transcribed by ear |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Theme and Variations) | 0:02:37 - David enters his home | augmented triad | classical music | deceptive resolution | establish character | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | home | playful | quotation | scored source music | source music | street | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Semplice) | 1:41:10 - Guards help Leni | advance plot | augmented triad | classical music | conversing | delicate | familiar tune | fragmentation | Haydn | helping | hero | heroine | lullaby | prison | quotation |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:41:29 - David walks down the prison corridor | advance plot | augmented triad | conversing | delicate | diminished 7th chord | helping | hero | pedal tone | prison | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Singing) + Surprise Symphony | 1:50:50 - Gerald sings in the tub | augmented triad | boy | child | classical music | combination of themes | conclusion | death | familiar tune | folk song | German | Haydn | home | mode mixture | on-screen music | peaceful | quotation | room | source music | whistling |
| The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery | 0:00:45 - Cast list and balancing scales | augmented triad | balancing | cast list | chromaticism | main title | mysterious | mystery | opening title sequence | pc set | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery (Note) | 0:16:14 - Man discovers mysterious note in sandwich | advance plot | augmented triad | banker | chromaticism | discovery | dramatic | eating | mysterious | mystery | party | pc set | sandwich | source and scoring overlap | transcribed by ear | waiter |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Mildred Waltz (Tipsy) | 0:21:09 - Mildred is drunk | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented triad | boat | drinking | drunk | leading lady | leading man | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Scenes Metropolitaine | 0:43:51 - Montage of activities in the city | ABCA structure | augmented triad | boat | boxing | Chinatown | diminished 7th chord | excited | gambling | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | montage | New York | night club | parallelism | transcribed by ear | transition | whole-tone |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Fish | 0:01:32 - Fish | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | establish setting | fish | fluttering | stinger | transcribed by ear | underwater | whole-tone chord |
| Emergency Call (1933) | Ambulance | 0:00:11 - Main titles over a speeding ambulance | ambulance | augmented triad | dissonant bass | Dorian mode | dramatic | driving | half-diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | paramedic | pedal tone | siren | street | through-composed | whole-tone |
| Headline Shooter (1933) | You Bunch of Fun (Transition) | 0:01:08 - Video cast list | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | excited | opening title sequence | parallelism | pedal tone | reused recording | transcribed by ear | video cast list |
| Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Blackboard Murder (Lyrical) | 0:00:51 - Video cast list | appoggiatura | augmented triad | blackboard | opening title sequence | ostinato | pleasant | retardation | sequence | transcribed by ear | video cast list |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Blackboard Murder (End Titles) | 1:10:39 - The End | added-note chord | augmented triad | end title sequence | grand | The End | transcribed by ear |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Suicide Transition | 0:26:55 - Bob sits | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | plotting | preparing | reading | robbery | room | sequence | shooting | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Blackboard Murder (End Titles) | 1:04:52 - The End | added-note chord | augmented triad | end title sequence | grand | The End | transcribed by ear |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Blood Money (Extended) | 0:28:58 - Pete walks away with the criminal | action scene | arguing | augmented triad | bank | detective | gangster | leading man | mysterious | tense | tritone | whole-tone |
| Another Face (1935) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:03:08 - Gangster smoking in chair | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | establish character | gangster | office | smoking | tense | underscoring | waiting |
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