| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | opening title sequence | oscillation | WB shield |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Invitation from the King | 1:03:46 - Invitation from the King | 11th chord | ballroom | bold | double exposure | duchess | duke | fanfare | leading lady | leading man | montage | pedal tone | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:04:02 - A concert program | ballroom | bold | carriage | duchess | duke | fanfare | leading lady | leading man | montage | riding | romantic | sequential modulation |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:42:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | on-screen text | romantic | sequential modulation | street |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Grandioso) + Desperation (Grandioso) | 1:53:13 - The police wagon leaves | arresting | bold | carriage | conflict | conversing | crowd | crying | dark | dissonant bass | fragmentation | landlady | leading lady | ominous | soldier | street | suspect | tense | testifying |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Bros. shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | fragmentation | main title | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | WB shield |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring cast list | bold | chromatic wedge | dark | half-diminished 7th chord | linear chromaticism | opening title sequence | starring list | transition |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster | 0:00:15 - Main title | bold | cast list | dark | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence | sequence | title of film |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (End Title) | NIF - not in film | bold | cut from film | mode mixture | plagal cadence |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | foreign key modulation | opening title sequence | phrase extension | WB shield |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | opening title sequence | starring list | voice-exchange | WB shield | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Shadows of the main characters | bold | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | opening title sequence | silhouette | smoke | smoking | starring list | transition | voice-exchange |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Decisive) | 0:47:04 - Marlowe walks out the door | added-note chord | advance plot | bold | decisive | leading man | leaving | pedal tone | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Determined) | 0:47:56 - Marlowe enters the apartment building | arriving | ascending | bold | common-chord modulation | determined | fragmentation | heroic | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | parallel 63s | parallelism | private eye | sequence | stairs | street | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Phone Call) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | bold | calling | cut from film | deleted scene | deleted scene | dialing | leading man | phone | private eye | room | sequence | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Risoluto) | 1:30:12 - Marlowe makes a phone call | added-note chord | bold | conversing | death scene | fragmentation | leading man | phone call | private eye | room | victim |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Bold) | 1:45:44 - Marlowe and Vivian get out of the car | bold | chromatic scale | heroic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | transition | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Risoluto) | 1:52:01 - Marlowe walks to the phone | added-note chord | bold | death | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | plotting | private eye | resolution | room | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (The End) | 1:53:36 - The end | bold | end title sequence | The End | triumphant |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | conductor score | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | oscillation | WB shield |
| Caged (1950) | Signature | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | cut from film | dissonant bass | fragmentation | opening title sequence | oscillation |
Caged (1950) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB logo | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | fragmentation | opening title sequence | oscillation | WB shield |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Morning Glory Fanfare (The End) | 1:10:32 - The End | bold | end title sequence | fanfare | The End | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | city | common-tone dominant 7th | fanfare | opening title sequence | oscillation | skyline | starring list | WB shield |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Introduction (Main Title) | 0:00:12 - Title of film over a city skyline | bold | cast list | city | common-tone dominant 7th | Gershwinesque | opening title sequence | skyline | title of film |
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) | Fanfare | 0:22:58 - A trophy is brought out | award | bold | chromatic mediant | crowd | dance band | dance hall | dancer | dance scene | fanfare | leading lady | on-screen music | parallelism | presenting | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Palace Gardens Fanfare | 0:34:31 - Marquee for Palace Gardens | bold | fanfare | marquee | montage | street |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Headlines) | 0:38:25 - Sports news headlines | 9th chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | newspaper | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | 42nd Street | 0:38:40 - Montage of dancing scenes | bold | dancing | double exposure | montage | shadow | stage |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Introduction | 1:32:01 - Orchestra playing in a concert hall | 9th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | double exposure | Dutch angle | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | score to source | source music | watching |
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 Train Whistle | 1:33:40 - The wind section plays | added-note chord | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | excited | fragmentation | Gershwinesque | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | pc set | playing | pump-up modulation | source music |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 2 | 1:33:48 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dramatic | Gershwinesque | grand | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Introduction (Abbreviated) | 1:34:01 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | double exposure | Dutch angle | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 3 | NIF - not in film | acceleration | bold | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert scene | cut from film | diminution | dominant 7th chord | exciting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | polyrhythm |
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 Transition 1 (Abbreviated) | 1:35:34 - Harp playing in the orchestra | added-note chord | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dramatic | Gershwinesque | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Train Whistle | 1:35:50 - Danny listens to the radio | added-note chord | bold | concert | concert scene | dissonant bass | excited | fragmentation | Gershwinesque | leading man | listening | on-screen music | pc set | pump-up modulation | radio | source music | street |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 2 (Allargando) | 1:35:58 - Orchestra playing in the concert hall | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | direct modulation | dramatic | Gershwinesque | grand | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | pedal tone | playing | source music | watching |
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 Introduction (Abbreviated 2) | 1:37:08 - The conductor leading the orchestra | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | common-tone dominant 7th | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Coda) | 1:37:16 - The conductor leading the orchestra | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic mediant | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | diminution | dramatic | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (The End) | 1:43:24 - The End | 64 chord | bold | conversing | end title sequence | grand | old man | plagal cadence | soliloquy | The End |
| Crime School (1938) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | WB shield |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | dissonant bass | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
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 |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Lead actors | bold | main title | opening title sequence | prison | starring list | transition |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines 2 | 0:49:31 - Newspaper headline is shown | added-note chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
| The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A | 0:04:33 - Film title, main cast | bold | cast list | FBI | heroic | main title | march |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | fanfare | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 1:37:30 - Steve gets off the boat | arriving | boat | bold | dock | gangster | heroic | inspector | leading man | police |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence | transcribed by ear | WB shield |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (Transition) | 0:00:08 - Starring list | bold | cards | dramatic | gambling | opening title sequence | poker | starring list | transcribed by ear | transition |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | oscillation | WB shield |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist | 0:00:09 - Title of film | bold | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dark | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | hallway | march | opening title sequence | oscillation | parallelism | stranger | title of film | tritone oscillation | zoom in |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent | 0:00:26 - Starring list | approaching | bold | cast list | dark | dramatic | fanfare | hallway | march | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | ostinato | polychord | sequence | starring list | stranger | tone cluster | tritone oscillation | walking |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | oscillation | WB shield |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Bold) | 0:25:26 - Gypo storms off down the street | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | bold | determined | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | Scotch snap | street | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Quiet!) | 1:01:27 - The rebels enter and start an argument | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | arguing | bold | crowd | dark | friend | interrupting | leading man | matching speech | mickey-mousing | party | rebel |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Rebel Jury) | 1:05:48 - Camera pans to show all of the faces of the rebel jury | 64 chord | bold | courtroom | courtroom scene | familiar tune | fanfare | folk song | headquarters | judging | jury | meter change | mode mixture | noble | panning shot | patriotic | plagal cadence | rebel | room |
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 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 |
| Key Largo (1948) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | fanfare | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Key Largo (1948) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Starring list | bold | opening title sequence | starring list | transition |
| The Letter (1940) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB Shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Maestoso) | 0:06:11 - Robert arrives at the plantation | bold | brassy | changing meter | dark | driving | home | husband | oscillation | transition | tritone |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | fanfare | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield and wave effect | added-note chord | bold | common-tone dominant 7th | dissonant bass | fanfare | opening title sequence | starring list | water | wave | WB shield |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Transition | 0:00:10 - Starring list and wave effect | 9th chord | bold | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | tense | title of film | water | wave |
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 | parallelism | pedal tone | police | police station | walking |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Watch on the Rhine (Headlines) | 0:28:39 - Montage of newspaper headlines | bold | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | quintal chord |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Allegro) | 1:18:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | conversing | daughter | dissonant bass | fragmentation | husband | montage | pedal tone | prison | waiting |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers logo | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | opening title sequence | oscillation | WB shield |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Troubled) | 0:53:43 - Stella talks with her father | advance plot | bold | conversing | dark | father | fisherman | leading lady | ominous | room |
| 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) | 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) | Heart of Oak | 0:01:02 - View of London ("England, 1914") | 64 chord | added-note chord | bold | British | card | England | establish location | familiar tune | folk song | London | march | pedal tone | setting |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (The End) | 1:51:13 - Closing credits | bold | classical music | closing credits | end title sequence | familiar tune | Haydn | on-screen music | quotation | source music | transcribed by ear | whistling |
| White Heat (1949) | Cody (Molto Marcato) | 0:13:59 - Cody walks to the car | bold | dark | departing | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | victim | violent | walking | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 | 0:29:18 - Newspaper headline | agent | bold | dark | dramatic | headline | leading man | newspaper | police station | transition | typing |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Marcato) | 1:46:58 - Evans signals to another agent | action scene | agent | bold | commanding | factory | fanfare | leading man | police |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Introduction | 0:00:00 - WB Shield | bold | book | grand | opening title sequence | transition | WB shield |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco | 0:04:40 - Walter hears a carriage approaching | arriving | bold | carriage | conversing | establish character | fanfare | forest | leading man | tense |
The Woman in White (1948) | Limmeridge | 0:06:41 - Walter arrives at the mansion | arriving | bold | butler | establish character | leading lady | leading man | mansion |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron A | 0:00:14 - Title of film and starring list | American Indian music | bold | establish setting | fanfare | menacing | minor pentatonic | open fifth | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Men of America (1932) | Symphony no. 5: IV | 0:26:35 - Car radio plays classical music | advance plot | bold | car | conversing | criminal | radio | source music | tense |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Fanfare) | 0:00:12 - Title of film; starring list | bold | linear chromaticism | marquee | mode mixture | opening title sequence | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
| Another Face (1935) | Success at any Price | 0:00:00 - Beeping RKO radio tower | bold | cast list | common-chord modulation | fanfare | lyrical | opening title sequence | radio tower | RKO tower | title of film | transcribed by ear |
| Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:09 - Superintendent office door | advance plot | bold | conversing | leading lady | leaving | mode mixture | prison | prisoner | unpacking | walking |
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