| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:47:48 - Rocks opens the safe | breaking in | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | enharmonic modulation | gangster | leading man | lock | opening | robbery | safe | safe-cracking | stinger | store | tense | thief | underscoring | unlocking | vault | wedge |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas | 1:19:48 - Tear gas spreads throughout the room | agitated | breaking | breaking | breathing | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | quartal chord | running | shooting | smoke | street | tear gas | throwing | window |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Heroic) | 0:21:28 - Marlowe enters the house | action scene | breaking in | heroic | leading man | private eye | running | street |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Glass drops | 1:29:49 - Jones drops his glass | breaking | death | death scene | dropping | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | mysterious | poison | private eye | room | victim | violent |
| Caged (1950) | Train Whistle Hallucination | NIF - not in film | agitated | bed | breaking | crazy person | crying | cut from film | dramatic | glass | hallucinating | leading lady | mad scene | prison | prisoner | screaming | smashing |
| Crime School (1938) | Sue (Whispering) | 1:10:38 - Frankie hears voices | anxious | fragmentation | gun | hearing voices | insanity | mad scene | mental breakdown | ostinato | pc set | reformatory | sequence | sound mass | teenager | tone cluster | whispering | worrying |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Sneaky) | 1:13:28 - Frankie sneaks in with his gun | breaking in | conflict | distortion | fragmentation | gun | room | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:58 - Joe walks to the jail | 64 chord | friend | jail | jail break | leading man | runaway | shopkeeper | tense | underscoring | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Sordini) | 0:48:21 - Joe talks to the jailer | chromatic parallelism | jail | jail break | leading man | major triad | mysterious | pedal tone | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:48:34 - Joe talks to the jailer | jail | jail break | leading man | pedal tone | tense | underscoring | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Trickery) | 0:48:45 - Joe talks to the jailer | distortion | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | jail | jail break | leading man | parallelism | passerby | shopkeeper | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:05 - Joe enters the jail | 64 chord | jail | jail break | leading man | tense | underscoring | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Jail Break) | 0:49:16 - Mabel looks up and sees Joe | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | jail | jail break | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Stick Up) | 0:50:12 - Joe pulls out a gun | gun | half-diminished 7th chord | jail | jail break | leading lady | leading man | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (The Escape) | 0:50:26 - Joe and Mabel leave the jail | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | escaping | foreign key modulation | friend | hopeful | jail | jail break | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Grandioso) | 0:50:50 - Joe and Mabel outside | 42 chord | 64 chord | deceptive resolution | escaping | friend | heroic | jail break | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | shopkeeper | street | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Stinger | 0:51:01 - They see approaching headlights | 42 chord | danger | friend | jail break | leading lady | leading man | ominous | shopkeeper | siren | stinger | street |
| 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 |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Inverted) | 0:33:27 - Field arrives at the café | arriving | breakup | café | inversion | leading man | ominous | self-borrowing | sheriff | telephone | worker |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 | 0:33:41 - Field sits down | breakup | café | conversing | dark | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | self-borrowing | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Dark) | 0:33:56 - Field talks to Lane | breaking up | breakup | café | dark | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | self-borrowing | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Triste) | 0:34:10 - Field tells Lane he is getting married | breaking up | breakup | café | chromatic sequence | dark | leading lady | leading man | major 7th chord | mysterious | self-borrowing | somber | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:34:30 - Lane responds to Field | breaking up | breakup | café | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | tense | underscoring | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Triste) | 0:34:51 - Lane goes to the kitchen | breakup | café | dark | diminished 7th chord | foreign key modulation | leading lady | pondering | somber | waitress | working |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Triste) | 0:35:13 - Lane comes back and Field is gone | breakup | café | dark | employer | firing | leading lady | somber | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Throwing whiskey and glass | 1:12:08 - Titus throws whiskey in Field's face | alcohol | breaking | bullying | conflict | dramatic | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | room | sheriff | slamming | splashing | throwing | tone cluster | whole-tone scale |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Breaking door | 1:12:39 - Titus breaks the glass door | breaking | bullying | conflict | door | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | polychord | room | sheriff | smashing | window |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:15 - Titus attacks Lane | attacking | breaking | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dramatic | dropping | gun | leading lady | linear chromaticism | oscillation | sheriff | staggering | stinger | telephone | tense | throwing | underscoring |
| 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 |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone chord | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Breaks door with chair | 0:10:47 - Wally smashes a glass door with a chair | action scene | breaking | chair | door | dramatic | friend | glass | mickey-mousing | room | smashing | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Glass falls | 0:10:49 - The glass door breaks | action scene | breaking | door | dramatic | falling | friend | glass | mickey-mousing | room | smashing | victim | whole-tone chord |
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) | Breaks glass | 1:05:35 - Bert slaps the glass out of Monte's hand | advance plot | breaking | down | ex-husband | falling | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | restaurant | tense | throwing | violence |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Sly) | 1:13:55 - Mildred tells Monte to not see Veda | arguing | breakup | chromatic wedge | chromatic wedge | conflict | disagreement | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:14:06 - Mildred and Monte argue | arguing | breakup | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | disagreement | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Agitato) | 1:14:37 - Mildred and Monte argue | agitated | arguing | breakup | conflict | distortion | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | love interest | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:53 - Mildred and Monte argue | 9th chord | added-note chord | arguing | bitter | breakup | conflict | deceptive resolution | heroine | leading lady | love interest | room | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | It Can't Be Wrong (Bitter) | 1:15:29 - Mildred writes Monte a check | arguing | bitter | breakup | conflict | dissonant bass | familiar tune | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | popular music | room | source to score | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Closes blinds | 1:15:59 - Mildred closes the blinds | blinds | breakup | closing | conflict | down | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | room | somber | window |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Threatening) | 0:20:40 - Goff threatens Jonah | arguing | boat | breaking | chef | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | dock | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | tense | threatening | violence |
| White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Straitjacket) | 1:04:07 - The warden talks with Cody | conversing | doctor | gangster | guard | leading man | murderer | mysterious | prison | prison break | prisoner | straitjacket | tense | underscoring | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Tense) | 1:04:33 - Tommy brings food to Cody | carrying | doctor | feeding | food | gangster | guard | leading man | murderer | mysterious | prison | prison break | prisoner | straitjacket | tense | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Tense 2) | 1:04:48 - Tommy loosens Cody's straitjacket | doctor | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | loosening | murderer | mysterious | prison | prison break | prisoner | releasing | straitjacket | tense | untying | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Pulls Gun) | 1:05:05 - Cody stands up | doctor | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | loosening | murderer | mysterious | prison | prison break | prisoner | releasing | straitjacket | tense | untying | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Tense) | 1:05:23 - Cody forces the doctor out at gunpoint | doctor | down | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | stinger | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Gathering | 1:05:39 - Inmates playing cards | conversing | doctor | dramatic | gangster | guard | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | walking |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Violent) | 1:06:11 - Cody shoves the doctor | commanding | doctor | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | pushing | stinger | violent |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Risoluto) | 1:06:24 - Cody forces the guard into a cell | commanding | doctor | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | pushing | tense | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Cody 3 | 1:06:43 - Cody forces men out at gunpoint | commanding | doctor | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | kicking | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Trap | 1:06:47 - Cody kicks Parker | commanding | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | kicking | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | revenge | tense | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Extended) | 1:07:13 - Cody forces men out at gunpoint | commanding | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | revenge | tense | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Prison Break | 1:07:19 - Cody and men go outside | dramatic | escaping | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | rushing | self-borrowing | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:07:29 - Cody commands the men | car | dramatic | escaping | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | underscoring | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Tense) | 1:07:49 - The men get in the car | car | dramatic | escaping | fanfare | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | motor effect | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | underscoring | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:07:57 - The car drives off | car | dramatic | escaping | fanfare | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | tense | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Prison Gate) | 1:08:17 - The prison gates open | car | dramatic | escaping | gangster | gate | guard | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Pursuit | 1:08:44 - The agents turn around | agent | car | driving | leading man | police | prison break | rushing | street | tense | uneasy |
White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 (Molto Misterioso) | 1:09:13 - Cody adjusts his hat in the mirror | dressing | fugitive | gangster | hat | leading man | mirror | murderer | mysterious | prison break | room | tense |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:05 - Bob shoots guard | breaking | death | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | murder | robbery | robbery | shooting | stealing | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Mystery | 0:28:14 - Bob (Bat) steals a necklace | breaking | chromaticism | gangster | imposter | leading man | mysterious | necklace | pc set | robbery | robbery | room | stealing | transcribed by ear |
| Without Honor (1949) | Triste | 0:07:37 - Dennis tells Jane their relationship is over | adulterer | affair | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Agitato) | 0:07:57 - Jane tells Dennis she still loves him | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | passionate | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato (Broad) | 0:08:11 - Jane cries | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | passionate | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Desperation | 0:08:20 - Jane talks to Dennis | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato (Molto Expressivo) | 0:08:35 - Jane cries | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | passionate | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Agitato) | 0:08:54 - Jane talks to Dennis | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Agitated) | 0:09:10 - Jane threatens to kill herself | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | dark | death scene | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suicide | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Molto Expressivo) | 0:59:06 - Jane cuts her wrist | antagonist | attempted suicide | bathroom | breaking | brother | climax | committing suicide | conversing | cutting | dramatic | entering | grabbing | husband | knocking | leading lady | leading man | razor blade | room | running | suicide | wife | yelling |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Count rises | 0:59:46 - The Count slowly rises | action scene | arrow | breaking | castle | count | death | dramatic | dying | fighting | killing | leading man | rising | servant | sneaking | tense | victim | villain |
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