| 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 |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo | 0:58:18 - Dr. Clitterhouse talks with Jo | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | conversing | doctor | foreign key modulation | gangster | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | sequence | tender |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 1 (End title) | 1:26:33 - The End | beaker | bubbling | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | closing credits | doctor | end title | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | ominous | plagal cadence |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo (End Cast) | 1:26:42 - Cast list | 13th chord | added-note chord | beaker | bubbling | chromatic mediant | closing credits | end title | triadic transformation |
| 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) | Sanctus (Maestoso) | 1:36:06 - Jerry and the boys walk up the stairs | angelic | ascending | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | leading man | priest | resolution | room | stairs | teenager | The End | transcendence | triumphant | up |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Coney Island) | NIF - not in film | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | foreign key modulation | joyful |
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 |
| 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 |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Chromatic) | 0:00:21 - Cast list | 64 chord | cast list | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | dramatic | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | opening title sequence |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Wow Wow Trumpet) | 0:02:42 - Reporters talk | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | comical | conversing | establish character | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | marriage | office | reporter |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Sidewalks of New York (Quasi Barcarolle) | 0:05:13 - The Brewster home | 64 chord | calm | card | cemetery | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | enharmonic modulation | establish setting | familiar tune | gravestone | ominous | stinger | street | wind | wind effect |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Full) | 0:14:00 - Elaine appears in the window | aunt | bride | cheerful | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | conversing | crazy person | familiar tune | greeting | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | on-screen music | pleasant | room | score to source | source music | street | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Appassionato) | 0:15:02 - The aunts peek out of the window | 64 chord | aunt | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | groom | inversion | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | peeking | romantic |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Church Bells) | 0:15:17 - Mortimer follows Elaine | 64 chord | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | parallelism | romantic |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Church Bells) | 0:16:22 - Mortimer and Elaine talk | 64 chord | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | parallelism | romantic |
| 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) | The Big Sleep | 0:00:13 - Starring actors and main title | 9th chord | ABA structure | cast list | chromatic mediant | chromatic sequence | dark | heavy | leading lady | leading man | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | silhouette | smoke | smoking | starring list |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | conductor score | fanfare | fragmentation | main title | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| 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) | 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) | Original Bolero | 0:29:43 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | bolero | chromatic mediant | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Expressivo) | 0:31:00 - Peggy apologizes to Danny | 9th chord | added-note chord | appoggiatura | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | foreign key modulation | kiss | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | parallelism | romantic | room |
City for Conquest (1940) | I'm Just Wild About Harry (Foxtrot) | 0:33:35 - Peggy starts to leave | 9th chord | added-note chord | boat | calm | chromatic mediant | conversing | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love scene |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Resolution) | 0:39:10 - Montage of boxing scenes | 9th chord | added-note chord | boxing ring | chromatic mediant | double exposure | foreign key modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | resolution | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
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) | Tone Poem Alternate Ending 2 | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | alternate music | chromatic mediant | diminution |
| 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 |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Tenderly) | 1:07:57 - Tommy talks to Johnnie | 9th chord | ABAB structure | altered dominant | arguing | chromatic mediant | conversing | direct modulation | foreign key modulation | hero | leading man | room | tender | turning point |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Lohenblueish) | 1:09:07 - Johnnie decides that he will stay | added-note chord | augmentation | chromatic mediant | direct modulation | foreign key modulation | hero | hopeful | hopeless | leading man | linear chromaticism | passionate | room | thinking | turning point | zoom in |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening A) | 0:00:21 - Main title | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | dissonant bass | dust | main title | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | romantic | title of film |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Pensive) | 0:23:08 - Joe tells Mabel about his dreams | 11th chord | barn | chromatic mediant | dreaming | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | pensive |
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) | Radio Fanfare | 0:34:20 - Mabel talks to Joe | chromatic mediant | develop character | happy | leading lady | leading man | radio | source music | theater |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Whistling | 0:45:44 - Joe whistles as he walks | 64 chord | cheerful | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | leading man | on-screen music | scored source music | source music | street | traveling scene | whistling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Dolceeessimo) | 1:08:53 - Joe and Mabel talk | advance plot | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | hopeful | intervallic expansion | leading lady | leading man | peaceful | room |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Hanging Hats) | 1:26:31 - Joe and Mabel toss their hats | 11th chord | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | happy | hat | hook | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | resolution | throwing | train | traveling | whistle effect |
| 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) | Freedom | 1:30:31 - Frank leaves the prison | artwork in score | chromatic mediant | conclusion | dissonant bass | freedom | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | optimistic | peaceful | The End | walking |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | fanfare | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Chapter One) | 0:00:54 - Chapter one from Flamingo Road | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | establish setting | gentle | mode mixture | self-borrowing | street | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Traveling | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | cut from film | deceptive resolution | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | pedal tone | police | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | The Capitol | 0:56:03 - The Olympic City capitol building | chromatic mediant | courthouse | deceptive resolution | establish setting | Mixolydian mode | noble | self-borrowing |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | fragmentation | main title | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| Key Largo (1948) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | fanfare | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| 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) | Robert and Leslie | 0:41:12 - Howard says he will help Leslie | advance plot | appoggiatura | calm | chromatic mediant | crying | deception | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | sigh gesture | somber | suspension | tender |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (Triste) | 0:42:17 - Leslie and Howard talk about her husband | advance plot | appoggiatura | calm | chromatic mediant | crying | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | resolution | sigh gesture | somber | suspension | tender |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (Tense) | 1:27:06 - Leslie talks to Robert | chromatic mediant | climax | conversing | gentle | home | husband | leading lady | love theme | Neapolitan | suspension | tender | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Deception (Lohengreenish) | 1:28:01 - Leslie reacts to Robert's forgiveness | chromatic mediant | climax | conversing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | home | husband | kissing | leading lady | ostinato | retardation | romantic | sequence | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (The Body) | NIF - not in film | alternate music | body | chromatic mediant | climax | death | foreign key modulation | love theme | Neapolitan | pedal tone | plantation | somber |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred B | 0:00:52 - Cast list and wave effect | 9th chord | appoggiatura | cast list | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | enharmonic modulation | foreign key modulation | gentle | mickey-mousing | name on screen | opening title sequence | optimistic | romantic | sequential modulation | water | wave |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 0:36:12 - Mildred works as a waitress | 64 chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | chromatic sequence | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | hectic | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | rushing | self-borrowing | sequential modulation | serving | upbeat | voice-over | waitress | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Regretful) | 0:39:37 - Mildred regrets slapping Veda | apologizing | child | chromatic mediant | conflict | foreign key modulation | heroine | hopeful | leading lady | mode mixture | Neapolitan | regretting | room | somber | tritone |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | NIF - not in film | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | cut from film | dissonant | dramatic | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | hopeful | mode mixture | sequence | tender | tense | tragic | turbulent | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | It Can't Be Wrong (Romantic) | 1:04:11 - Monte kisses Mildred | advance plot | chromatic mediant | door | ex-husband | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | heroine | interrupting | kissing | leading lady | love interest | mode mixture | popular music | restaurant | romantic | slamming | source to score | stinger |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert (Regretful) | 1:04:43 - Bert tells Mildred about the divorce | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | conversing | divorce | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | love interest | regretting | restaurant | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Returning Home) | 1:38:10 - Mildred looks at Veda through the window | advance plot | chromatic mediant | conversing | daughter | deceptive resolution | emotional | foreign key modulation | happy | heroine | leading lady | loving | mode mixture | mother | room | warm | watching |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Happy Homecoming) | 1:38:50 - Mildred and her daughter embrace | added-note chord | advance plot | apologizing | chromatic mediant | daughter | embracing | foreign key modulation | forgiveness | happy | heroine | leading lady | loving | mode mixture | mother | returning | reuniting | room | warm |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Strings) | 0:52:30 - Vergie puts a ribbon in Joan's hair | advance plot | child | chromatic mediant | conversing | countermelody | daughter | direct modulation | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | mother | pedal tone | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender (Allegretto) | 1:04:31 - Ranny reacts to the revelation | chromatic mediant | conflict | conversing | daughter | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | leading man | light | love interest | mode mixture | optimistic | pedal tone | room | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby + Here Comes the Bride | 1:10:07 - Vergie imagines the wedding | added-note chord | bride | calm | chromatic mediant | combination of themes | common-chord modulation | daughter | double exposure | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | peaceful | secret lover | ternary form | transcribed by ear | walking | wedding | wedding | wedding music |
| 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 (Tango) | 1:24:07 - Stella and Jonah walk away | chromatic mediant | conversing | dock | exotic | father | fisherman | foreign key modulation | leading lady | peaceful | pedal tone | resolution | street | tango | walking |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Yearning | 0:48:47 - Marie speaks with her mother | advance plot | chromatic mediant | conversing | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | home | mother | nervous | newspaper | not by Steiner | sister | transcribed by ear | yearning |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Doublecross (Heated) | 1:16:02 - Nick arrives at the farm | advance plot | arguing | arriving | chromatic mediant | farm | leading man | manager | not by Steiner | sister | tense | transcribed by ear |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage 2) | 1:18:47 - Newspaper headline montage | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | climax | fanfare | foreign key modulation | heroic | hurrying | manager | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | room | syncopation |
| Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Radio Dance Band) | 0:32:46 - Music is played on the radio | AABA structure | chromatic mediant | comedy | dancing | leading lady | popular song | radio | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
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 |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Dolce) | 1:46:08 - Bob talks with Chris | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | conversing | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | hopeful | husband | lawyer | mode mixture | ostinato | peaceful | pedal tone | plagal cadence | resolution | resolution | romantic | room | triumphant | wife |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | chromatic mediant | fanfare | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | phrase extension | starring list | WB shield |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Boy runs downstairs | 0:03:07 - Gerald runs down the stairs | 9th chord | altered dominant | antagonist | boy | child | chromatic mediant | down | downstairs | establish character | foreign key modulation | gentle | home | mickey-mousing | mother | pedal tone | playful | running |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside | 0:10:56 - David visits an injured Leni | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | gentle | hero | heroine | mode mixture | quotation | room | step modulation |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (Peaceful) | 0:12:13 - David's treatment is successful | calm | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | hero | heroine | mode mixture | quotation | room |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frolic | 0:33:45 - Leni and Gerald run through the park | advance plot | antagonist | boy | child | chromatic mediant | diminished 7th chord | foreign key modulation | gossiping | heroine | joyful | park | pedal tone | playing | running |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Birds | NIF - not in film | augmentation | birds | chromatic mediant | cut from film | inversion | layering | pastoral | pentatonic |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Birds (Extended) | NIF - not in film | augmentation | birds | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | inversion | pastoral | pentatonic |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron B (Transition) | 0:02:19 - Smokey Joe fights the Indians | ambush | chromatic mediant | cowboy | dramatic | establish character | establish setting | fragmentation | gun | gunshot | horse | Indian | leading man | prairie | riding | self-borrowing | shooting | stagecoach | tense | title card | transcribed by ear |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula | 0:01:11 - A quotation about suicide | book | chromatic mediant | dark | opening title sequence | pedal tone | psychology | tragic | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | The Train | 0:01:33 - A rushing train | chromatic mediant | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | rushing | sorting | train | train | train whistle | transcribed by ear | transition | traveling | upbeat |
| Blind Adventure (1933) | Opening Fanfare | 0:00:16 - Title of film and starring list | cast list | chromatic mediant | cloud | exciting | fanfare | opening title sequence | pedal tone | title of film | transcribed by ear |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Transient Love | 0:00:12 - Title of film; starring list; cast list | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | cast list | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | opening title sequence | pedal tone | pleasant | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
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