| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy (Waiting) | 1:24:19 - Johnnie talks to Peggy | climax | dark | detective | dissonant | leading lady | leading man | lying | ominous | room | waiting |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Lying | 1:25:16 - Johnnie lies to Peggy about where he's going | climax | detective | leading lady | leading man | lying | room | turbulent |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Appassionatissimo) | 1:13:14 - Joe makes a run for it | climax | conflict | escaping | hero | heroine | hospital | parallelism | tense |
| The Informer (1935) | Katie (Despair) | 1:16:18 - Gypo confesses and cries | antagonist | climax | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | guilt | headquarters | leading man | remorseful | room | sequence | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Tranquillo) | 1:16:35 - Gypo is taken away | antagonist | arresting | authentic cadence | climax | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | guilt | headquarters | hero | leading man | leaving | love interest | pleading | remorseful | room | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Ostinato) | 1:27:32 - Rebels come to capture Gypo | antagonist | climax | leading man | mysterious | ostinato | rebel | room | sneaking | tense | traitor | whispering |
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 Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Tuttissimo) | 1:28:53 - Gypo stumbles into a church | antagonist | church | climax | dirge | dominant pedal | dying | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mysterious | street | stumbling | tense | traitor | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Pathetic) | 1:29:48 - Gypo stumbles toward Frankie's mother | antagonist | church | climax | diminished 7th chord | dying | gentle | leading man | main theme | pedal tone | somber | stumbling | traitor | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Sancta Maria | 1:30:27 - Frankie's mother forgives Gypo | antagonist | church | climax | confessing | dying | gentle | leading man | mother | sacred | somber | suspension | traitor |
| The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Tragic) | 0:37:21 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | climax | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Foxtrot No.3) | 1:25:08 - Leslie leaves the party, stares at the moon, and is worried | climax | combination of themes | dance music | foxtrot | home | lacework | leading lady | obsession | obsessive | oscillation | sequence | source music | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Distraught) | 1:25:39 - Leslie cries | climax | crying | dramatic | emotional | home | leading lady | oscillation | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:26:07 - Leslie talks to Robert | climax | conversing | home | husband | leading lady | mysterious | staring | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Ethereal) | 1:26:36 - Leslie and Robert look at each other | climax | home | husband | leading lady | oscillation | staring | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:26:52 - Leslie talks to Robert | climax | conversing | home | husband | leading lady | staring | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Letter 2 (Tense) | 1:27:06 - Leslie talks to Robert | climax | conversing | gentle | home | husband | leading lady | pedal tone | tender | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Deception (Lohengreenish) | 1:28:04 - Robert asks for Leslie's love and devotion | climax | conversing | home | husband | kissing | leading lady | romantic | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Very Slow) | 1:29:01 - Leslie says she loves the man she killed then cries | climax | home | leading lady | oscillation | sequence | somber | stern | weeping |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Dirge) | 1:29:32 - Leslie heads towards the door | Chinese | climax | dark | dirge | home | leading lady | somber | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Missing Dagger) | 1:29:49 - Leslie opens the door | Chinese | climax | dagger | door | gentle | home | leading lady | mysterious | opening | pentatonic |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Climactic) | 1:30:02 - Leslie finds that the knife is gone | climax | dagger | door | home | leading lady | looking | passionate |
The Letter (1940) | Shadow | 1:30:30 - Leslie leaves the house | chromatic parallelism | climax | leading lady | mysterious | plantation | shadow | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Native (Climactic) | 1:30:42 - Leslie wanders through her garden | climax | crying | exoticism | gamelan | Indonesian music | leading lady | mysterious | panning shot | parallelism | plantation | setting | somber | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Deception (Appassionato) | 1:31:18 - Close-up of Leslie | climax | crying | leading lady | mysterious | plantation | polytonality | somber | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (The Moon) | 1:31:36 - Leslie watches the moon go behind a cloud | climax | cloud | crying | dramatic | leading lady | looking | moon | oscillation | plantation | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Ambush) | 1:31:55 - Leslie moves through the gate | antagonist | Chinese | climax | dark | leading lady | mysterious | plantation | polytonality | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Deliberate) | 1:32:48 - Mrs. Hammond approaches Leslie with a knife | antagonist | Chinese | climax | dagger | leading lady | plantation | somber | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Revenge) | 1:33:01 - Mrs. Hammond stabs Leslie | antagonist | Chinese | Chinese | climax | dagger | leading lady | murder | open fifth | parallelism | pentatonic | plantation | somber | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Policeman | 1:33:31 - A policeman comes to investigate but does nothing | antagonist | Chinese | climax | investigating | plantation | policeman | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Reckoning) | 1:33:42 - Mrs. Hammond walks away and we see Leslie's dead body | antagonist | augmentation | body | Chinese | climax | death | leading lady | moon | oscillation | plantation | policeman | somber |
The Letter (1940) | Letter 2 (The Body) | NIF - not in film | body | climax | death | pedal tone | plantation | somber |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred B (Twist) | 1:45:20 - Mildred walks into the beach house | arriving | climax | dark | flashback | heroine | leading lady | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:45:25 - Mildred walks downstairs | arriving | climax | dark | heroine | leading lady | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:45:37 - Mildred finds Veda and Monte together | antagonist | climax | dark | daughter | discovering | kissing | reveal | room | stinger | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Agitato) | 1:46:05 - Veda reveals that she is in love with Monte | antagonist | betrayal | betraying | climax | dark | daughter | heroine | leading lady | revealing | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Very Slow) | 1:46:22 - Mildred reacts to Veda's betrayal | antagonist | betrayal | climax | contemplating | dark | daughter | gun | heroine | leading lady | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 1:46:43 - Mildred runs away | antagonist | arguing | betrayal | climax | daughter | dramatic | emotional | heroine | leading lady | room | running |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Breakdown) | 1:47:11 - Mildred tries to start her car | climax | crying | dramatic | emotional | heroine | leading lady | leaving | street |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad A (Montage 2) | 1:18:47 - Newspaper headline montage | climax | fanfare | heroic | hurrying | main theme | manager | montage | newspaper | room | syncopation |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Recompense) | 1:38:49 - Nick is dying on a table | climax | death | dying | fanfare | leading lady | leading man | main theme | manager | room | sister | somber |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | arguing | climax | cut from film | husband | ostinato | room | sequential modulation | tense | wife |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner (Headlines) | 1:24:17 - Chris is suspected of murder | climax | friend | hurrying | montage | newspaper | newspaper boy | ostinato | panicked | police station | polytonality | radio | reporter | room | rushing | street | surprise | widow |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Scandal) | 1:24:55 - Newspaper headlines about the murder | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | ostinato | radio | rushing | sequential modulation |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (The Trial) | 1:25:17 - Chris on trial | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | knife | lawyer | mirroring | montage | ostinato | polytonality | prosecuting | prosecutor | rushing | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Clocking out | 1:25:41 - Time card | climax | comical | mickey-mousing | montage | office | saleswoman | time card | working |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 1:25:44 - Mrs. Tanner testifies | altered dominant | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | quartal chord | rushing | testifying | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:51 - Art shop owner testifies | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | rushing | testifying | tritone | underscoring | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Heavy) | 1:26:02 - Newspaper of Chris testifying | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | rushing |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Somber) | 1:31:04 - Rocky leaves his cell for his execution | climax | conversing | gangster | gentle | leading man | priest | prison | stinger |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Upset) | 1:31:40 - Jerry follows Rocky out of his cell | agitated | climax | conversing | gangster | leading man | police | priest | prison |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:44 - Rocky punches a police man | agitated | climax | fighting | gangster | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Funebre) | 1:31:55 - Rocky pushes at the police men | climax | gangster | leading man | police | priest | prison | pushing | somber |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Funebre | 1:32:03 - Jerry and Rocky walk down the hall | climax | dirge | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | marching | police | priest | prison | somber | tense | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Goodbye) | 1:33:12 - Jerry says goodbye to Rocky | climax | conversing | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | priest | prison | serious | somber |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Funebre (Sigh) | 1:33:19 - Rocky heads towards electric chair | climax | dirge | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | marching | priest | prison | somber | tense | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:36 - Rocky pleads for his life | begging | climax | cowardice | crowd | crying | death | execution | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | pleading | police | priest | prison | shadow | tense | underscoring | wailing |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus (Mournful) | 1:34:12 - Jerry cries after Rocky dies | climax | crying | death | execution chamber | leading man | mourning | priest | prison | redemption | sacred | somber |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Appassionato) | 1:25:51 - Johnnie says goodbye to Peggy | appoggiatura | climax | detective | embracing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | leaving | romantic | room | sentimental | tender |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Eddie's Prayer | 1:22:14 - Eddie behind bars | climax | crying | dramatic | jail | leading man | murderer | praying | prisoner | religious | sacred |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (The End) | 0:59:03 - Ursula jumps to her death | chromatic scale | climax | dark | dramatic | dying | jumping | leading lady | murderer | The End | train | transcribed by ear |
