All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette + Falling Snow | 1:12:16 - The Duke talks to Henriette | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | room | snow | snow globe | snowing | uneasy |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette + Falling Snow | 1:18:26 - Snow swirling in a snow globe | advance plot | calm | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | deceptive resolution | gift | governess | leading lady | room | snow | snow globe | snowing | swirling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Gossiping) + Spring Time (Gossiping) | 1:47:25 - Henriette's landlady talks to the Duke | awkward | child | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | diminished 7th chord | duke | gossiper | gossiping | landlady | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | reunion scene | room | somber | tense | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette + Falling Snow | 2:21:43 - Henriette sees the falling snow | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | hearing voices | leading lady | minister | mode mixture | resolution | school | snow | teacher | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:49:36 - Dr. Clitterhouse in safe | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | robbery | spinning | store | tense | thief | trapping | whirling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:11 - Butch comes back | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | hurrying | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | store | temperature | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Sneaking) + The Motor | 0:50:14 - Rocks sneaks around in the dark | antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | sneaking | store | temperature | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch goes downstairs | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Rocks) + Rocks (The Amazing Doctor) | 0:50:33 - Rocks goes out to the truck | antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | dissonant bass | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | lying | murderer | pc set | robbery | street | tense | thief | tritone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Brass) + The Motor | 0:51:00 - Dr. Clitterhouse in the safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | gangster | knocking | motor | ostinato | panicking | robbery | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Lighting the Torch + The Motor | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief | torch | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch (Off) + The Motor | 0:52:24 - Butch finishes opening safe | anxious | burning | combination of themes | criminal | cutting | dissonant bass | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | motor | ostinato | pc set | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch | turning off |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo (At the Phone) | 0:59:24 - Rocks takes the phone apart | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | dark | gangster | leading lady | ominous | plotting | room | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 | 1:21:08 - Newspaper presses rolling | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | headlines | layering | montage | newspaper | obsessive | ostinato | printing press | step modulation |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 (Not in Film) + The Amazing Doctor (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | layering | ostinato | step modulation |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry + Tear Gas | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | quartal chord | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Minor) + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Minor) | 1:15:51 - Newspaper headlines | combination of themes | conversing | double exposure | headline | minor-major 7th chord | montage | newspaper | police | preaching | priest | source to score | spinning | tense |
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 |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 0:02:15 - A sawmill | combination of themes | countryside | establish setting | harsh | industrious | machinery | machinery effect | sawmill | steam whistle | voice-over | whistle | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train + Chicago | 0:03:20 - A departing train | accompanied dialogue | combination of themes | departing | establish setting | familiar tune | mysterious | popular tune | tense | train | train effect | train station | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 0:33:06 - Rosa on her porch | advance plot | combination of themes | factory | fire | harsh | industrious | leading lady | machinery effect | porch | sulking | watching | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Rosa | 0:33:25 - Rosa lies down | advance plot | combination of themes | factory | fire | leading lady | machinery effect | porch | sulking | upset | watching |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train (Whistle) + Chicago | 0:44:23 - A speeding train | combination of themes | familiar tune | hurried | popular tune | train | train | train effect | transition | traveling |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Violent) + Chicago | 1:09:01 - Rosa heads outside | anger | angry | combination of themes | contemplating | departing | familiar tune | harsh | leading lady | ominous | popular tune | reacting | room | turning point |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 1:23:17 - Rosa opens the window | agitated | combination of themes | fever | illness scene | leading lady | machinery effect | mickey-mousing | murderer | opening | raising | room | sickness | sweating | tense | waiting | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Fever | 1:23:26 - Rosa rubs her forehead | agitated | combination of themes | fever | illness scene | leading lady | machinery effect | maid | murderer | room | sickness | sickness effect | sweating | tense | waiting |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 1:30:02 - The maid makes a phone call | agitated | climax | collapsing | combination of themes | cut from film | falling | leading lady | machinery effect | madness | mad scene | maid | murderer | street | stumbling | tense | walking | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Rosa (Stumbling) | 1:30:10 - Rosa struggles to her feet | climax | combination of themes | dark | leading lady | machinery effect | madness | mad scene | murderer | ominous | standing | street | stumbling | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 1:30:36 - Darkness | agitated | climax | combination of themes | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | stumbling | tense | train | train station | walking | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train + Chicago (Shrill) | 1:30:54 - Rosa stumbles towards the train | agitated | climax | combination of themes | cut from film | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | popular tune | shrill | stumbling | tense | train | train effect | train station | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train (Heating Up) + Chicago (Fragmented) | 1:31:05 - Rosa stumbles towards the train | agitated | climax | combination of themes | desperate | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | popular tune | stumbling | tense | train | train effect | train station | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running out | 0:56:36 - Marlowe runs after the killer | assassin | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | combination of themes | dramatic | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian + Marlowe (Ear Business) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | altered dominant | combination of themes | conversing | cut from film | deleted scene | deleted scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | private eye | romantic | room | thinking | whole-tone |
Caged (1950) | Wailing + Train Whistle Hallucination | NIF - not in film | acceleration | agitated | bed | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | crazy person | crying | crying effect | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | glass | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | pedal tone | polychord | prison | prisoner | rushing | unlocking | wailing |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem B + Train | 0:01:19 - Sign for the Williamsburg Bridge | 9th chord | added-note chord | bridge | busy | chromatic parallelism | city | combination of themes | countermelody | hurried | Mixolydian mode | old man | police | train | transition | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A + Sidewalks of New York | 0:38:31 - Traveling montage | combination of themes | double exposure | gentle | montage | train | transcribed by ear | traveling |
Deep Valley (1947) | Breeze + Love Theme | 0:48:14 - Barry talks to Libby | combination of themes | conversing | convict | ethereal | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | listening | magical | wind | wind effect |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Somber) + Barry (Somber) | 1:30:26 - Libby talks to Barry | advance plot | barn | combination of themes | comforting | convict | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | somber |
Deep Valley (1947) | Breeze + Love Theme | 1:43:32 - Libby embraces Barry | combination of themes | convict | crying | death | death scene | ethereal | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | magical | resolution | wind effect |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 3 + Law | 1:44:32 - Jeff talks to Libby | calm | combination of themes | conversing | dog | forest | leading lady | leading man | peaceful | resolution |
The FBI Story (1959) | Communists (Surveillance 2) | 2:13:36 - FBI agents follow communist | combination of themes | communist | flashback | tritone |
The FBI Story (1959) | Symbol (Pursuit) | 2:22:26 - Car chase continues | combination of themes | FBI | flashback |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Marines' Hymn (Con Moto) | 2:28:15 - Chip's family drives around Washington DC | car | combination of themes | driving | family | memorial | soldier | Washington DC |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus + Agitato (Extended) | 0:39:55 - Police take Lane away | arresting | combination of themes | conflict | driving | leading lady | police | self-borrowing | street | tense | turbulent |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train + Titus (Rising) | 0:42:43 - Field and Annabelle in a train car | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Tense) | 1:04:16 - Titus enters the room | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | leading lady | leading man | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | tense | whole-tone scale |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Misterioso) | 1:04:33 - Titus talks to Dan | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | distortion | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | politician | room | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus + Titus 2 | 1:09:43 - Titus bullies Field | advance plot | bullying | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | commanding | dark | leading man | ominous | ostinato | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Fragmented) + Titus 2 (Fragmented) | 1:29:47 - Lane confronts Titus | arguing | climax | club | combination of themes | dark | fragmentation | inversion | leading lady | motivic transformation | mysterious | ominous | retrograde | self-borrowing | sheriff |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Ominous) + Family | 0:38:46 - Matt leaves his apartment | advance plot | combination of themes | communist | dark | discovery | leading lady | letter | ominous | polychord | reacting | reading | self-borrowing | spy | street | teacher | tense | tritone oscillation |
In This Our Life (1942) | Driving + Love Theme | 0:39:07 - Roy and Craig in a car | 9th chord | altered dominant | calm | car | combination of themes | conversing | driving | iii chord | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | oscillation | pedal tone | romantic | suspension |
In This Our Life (1942) | Fast Driving + Stanley | 1:08:53 - Stanley driving | car | car | child | combination of themes | crime scene | criminal | driving | drunk | leading lady | mysterious | oscillation | street | tense | uneasy | victim | walking | whole-tone scale |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley + Stanley B (Rising Tension) | 1:33:49 - The police in hot pursuit | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | combination of themes | criminal | desperate | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | fleeing | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | police | street | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money + Blind Man | 0:20:27 - Gypo looks at Frankie's poster again | advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | leading man | looking | mysterious | poster | street | tense | whole-tone |
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) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 0:32:03 - Gypo in rebel headquarters | advance plot | antagonist | burning | combination of themes | diminished 7th chord | fire | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | octatonic | rebel | rising | room | Scotch snap | tense | tone cluster |
The Informer (1935) | The Irish Washerwoman (Pub) + Blood Money + The Wearin' o' the Green + The Informer | 0:44:52 - People celebrate in the pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | chaotic | chromatic scale | close-up | combination of themes | crowd | dark | dissonant bass | excited | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | happy | heroic | Irish | layering | leading man | mob | mobbing | octatonic | parallelism | pedal tone | polytonality | rebel | serving | source to score | spying | tense | whole-tone | yelling | zoom in |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (The Trial) + Blind Man (The Trial) | 1:15:13 - The rebels ask Gypo where he got the money | antagonist | axis of symmetry | blind man | combination of themes | courtroom | courtroom scene | fanfare | headquarters | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | mirroring | money | mysterious | questioning | room | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (The Trial) + The Informer (The Trial) | 1:15:40 - Dan asks "Who was the informer?" | antagonist | axis of symmetry | combination of themes | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | interrogating | interrogation | inversion | leading man | mirroring | money | mysterious | questioning | room | suspect | whole-tone |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Bugle Call) + Taps | 0:16:31 - Mr. Temple asks Frank about George's burial place | advance plot | bugle call | combination of themes | death | father | heroic | hotel | leading lady | leading man | memory | noble | remembering | somber | storytelling | taps | war |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco 2 (Slowly) + McCloud (Tritone) | 0:32:57 - McCloud quotes FDR | angry | boss | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | quoting | stinger |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco + Tension | 0:46:48 - Rocco's grinning face | boss | combination of themes | conflict | dangerous | father | gangster | gun | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | staring | tense | threatening | violence | violent |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco 3 + Tension + Laughing | 0:46:53 - Gangsters laugh at McCloud | boss | combination of themes | conflict | dangerous | father | gangster | gun | hostage | hotel | laughing | leading lady | leading man | mocking | moll | tense | violence | violent |
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) | Andante Doloroso + Leslie | 0:15:53 - Men go to look at dead body | advance plot | combination of themes | dark | death | murder | parallelism | plantation | reveal | servant | sinister | walking |
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 (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) | Mrs. Hammond + Glass Curtains | 1:00:13 - Leslie faces Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | paying | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie + Glass Curtains | 1:01:27 - Leslie removes her shawl | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B + Glass Curtains | 1:01:57 - Leslie approaches Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Contempt) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:40 - Leslie stoops down to pick up the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | contempt | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | stooping | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Dark) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:50 - Leslie looks at the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | dark | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Solemn) + Glass Curtains | 1:03:08 - Leslie and Howard leave | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | solemn | staring | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
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 |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Foxtrot No. 1 | 1:20:02 - Ong is seen in the mirror | advance plot | antagonist | calm | combination of themes | dagger | dance music | dropping | foxtrot | home | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pentatonic | source music |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Guilty) + Foxtrot No. 1 | 1:20:53 - Leslie looks at the full moon | advance plot | combination of themes | dagger | dramatic | home | leading lady | looking | moon | oscillation | polytonality | stinger | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Foxtrot No. 1 B | 1:21:15 - Leslie looks around | advance plot | Chinese | combination of themes | dagger | dance music | foxtrot | home | leading lady | looking | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pentatonic | polymeter | polytonality | source music | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie + Foxtrot No. 3 | 1:25:08 - Leslie looks out the window | added-note chord | climax | combination of themes | common-chord modulation | dance music | foreign key modulation | foxtrot | home | lacework | leading lady | obsession | obsessive | oscillation | sequence | source music | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Fast) + Foxtrot No. 3 | 1:34:18 - Leslie's lacework | calm | combination of themes | dance music | fragmentation | lacework | oscillation | plantation | pump-up modulation | resolution | sequence | source music |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling) + Shelly 2 | 0:10:13 - Shelly drives through the desert | actor | bright | car | cheerful | combination of themes | desert | double exposure | driving | foreign key modulation | leading lady | map | montage | motor effect | ostinato | sequential modulation | traveling | traveling scene | wheel | zoom in |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling) + Shelly 2 (Allegretto) | 0:23:40 - Shelly travels to Tumblewood Ranch | actor | added-note chord | arriving | bright | car | cheerful | combination of themes | countryside | cut from film | desert | driving | horse | leading lady | leading man | ostinato | ranch | sequential modulation | suspect | transition | traveling | walking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly + Shelly 2 (Molto Misterioso) | 0:24:05 - Shelly looks around the ranch | actor | arriving | calm | combination of themes | fragmentation | leading lady | mysterious | ostinato | ranch | sequential modulation | transition | walking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Dolce) + Shelly 2 | 0:41:00 - Shelly gets off of her horse | actor | arriving | calm | combination of themes | horse | leading lady | ranch | transition | walking | worker |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Gallop 2) + Shelly 2 | 0:42:19 - Shelly riding on a horse | actor | arriving | calm | combination of themes | countryside | galloping | galloping effect | horse | leading lady | riding | transition | traveling | upbeat |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Legato) + Shelly 2 (Legato) | 0:42:32 - Shelly gets off of her horse | actor | arriving | calm | combination of themes | countryside | hiking | horse | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | transition | walking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Expressivo) + Shelly 2 (Expressivo) | 0:43:13 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | calm | cliff | combination of themes | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romance | suspect | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling) + Shelly 2 (Allegretto) | 0:51:09 - Shelly drives away from the Tumble Moon ranch | actor | car | combination of themes | driving | leading lady | luggage | ranch | rancher | transition | traveling | upbeat |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Peaceful) + Shelly 2 (Peaceful) | 1:07:58 - Trev and Shelly embrace | actor | calm | combination of themes | conversing | embracing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mother | owner | ranch | romantic | room | suspect |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mazurka in B-Flat Major + Mildred | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | classical music | combination of themes | cut from film | familiar tune | on-screen music | scored source music | source music | three-phrase period |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby + Funeral March | 0:02:32 - Vergie in her jail cell | classical music | combination of themes | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | plagal cadence | pondering | prison | prisoner | sequence | somber | source music | suspect | watching |
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 |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Ending) + Funeral March (Ending) | 1:18:06 - Vergie in her jail cell | classical music | combination of themes | crying | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | prisoner | somber | suspect |
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 |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit | 0:24:23 - Ernie chases the gangsters | agent | car | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | frantic | motor effect | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit | 0:24:37 - Ernie chases the gangsters | agent | car | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | frantic | motor effect | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit (Rising) | 0:24:58 - Ernie chases the gangsters | agent | car | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | frantic | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit (Antenna) | 1:37:59 - | agent | chase scene | combination of themes | conversing | cut from film | police station | radio | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit (Montage) | 1:38:33 - Police car in pursuit | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | combination of themes | double exposure | electronic effect | montage | mysterious | police station | pursuing | radio | radio effect | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit | 1:41:42 - Agents map coordinates of the truck | agent | car | car | chase scene | combination of themes | pursuing | speeding | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Prison Fight + Agents | 1:48:17 - Gangsters run up the stairs | action scene | agent | ascending | combination of themes | dramatic | factory | fleeing | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | murderer | police | raid | running | rushing | shootout | stairs | tense |
The Woman in White (1948) | The Carman's Whistle (Arriving) + Ann | 0:06:22 - The woman in white appears | arriving | calm | combination of themes | establish character | garden | leading lady | leading man | mansion | sneaking | tense | tremolo | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Accelerando) + Fosco (Dark) | 1:12:47 - Fosco leaves | agitated | anger | antagonist | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | criminal | departing | doctor | husband | leading man | room | rushing | searching | tense | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum + Ann | 1:24:50 - Close-up on Count Fosco | antagonist | asylum | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnosis | hypnotist | hypnotizing | leading lady | leading man | lighting change | mad scene | murderer | mysterious | thematic transference | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum + Ann + Hypnosis | 1:25:26 - Laura looks at Sir Percival | antagonist | asylum | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnosis | hypnotist | hypnotizing | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | murderer | mysterious | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum + Ann + Hypnosis | 1:26:10 - Count Fosco hypnotizes Laura | antagonist | asylum | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnosis | hypnotist | hypnotizing | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | murderer | shrill | staring | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum + Ann + Hypnosis | 1:27:35 - Laura hears Count Fosco's voice in her head | asylum | combination of themes | hearing voices | hypnosis | leading lady | mad scene | mysterious | sneaking | tense | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Hypnosis + Fosco | 1:30:32 - Count Fosco leaves | antagonist | carriage | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnotist | leading man | leaving | murderer | ominous | plotting | spy | spying | street | tense | transition |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) + The Train | 0:23:07 - Helen points the gun at herself and cries | antagonist | combination of themes | crying | exotic | exoticism | gun | Gypsy major scale | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pedal tone | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Another Face (1935) | Russian Waltz (Meno) + The Iron Door | 0:02:11 - Gangsters talk with doctor | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conversing | doctor | establish character | gangster | mysterious | nurse | office | pedal tone | tense |
Another Face (1935) | Zaroff (Molto Moderato) + The Iron Door | 0:02:43 - The gangsters depart | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conversing | departing | doctor | establish character | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | nurse | office | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Lullaby + Underscoring (Tense) | 0:37:46 - Jane runs to the road | | action scene | combination of themes | escaping | hiding | ice cream truck | leading lady | running | scored source music | source music | street | tense | underscoring |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (The Castle) + The Iron Door | 0:09:42 - Count Zaroff's castle | approaching | castle | combination of themes | establish setting | jungle | leading man | looking | ominous | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Whole Tone) + The Iron Door | 0:29:10 - Bob wakes up | barking | bed | castle | combination of themes | door | knocking | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | opening | sleeping | turning point | waking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Meno) + The Iron Door | 0:37:30 - Zaroff talks about the game | action scene | castle | combination of themes | conversing | count | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Molto Moderato) + The Iron Door | 0:38:01 - Zaroff talks about the game | action scene | castle | combination of themes | conversing | count | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + The Iron Door | 0:38:17 - Bob and Eve leave | action scene | agitated | castle | combination of themes | count | departing | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Slowly) + Russian Waltz + The Iron Door | 0:39:04 - Zaroff stares at Bob and Eve | action scene | combination of themes | count | jungle | ominous | smoking | staring | villain | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage (Hiding) | 0:42:33 - Bob and Eve watch and wait | action scene | combination of themes | count | hiding | hunting | jungle | knife | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | sneaking | stalking | tense | trap | victim | villain | waiting | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Hunting) + The Iron Door | 0:43:48 - Zaroff talks to Bob | action scene | combination of themes | count | dark | hiding | hunting | jungle | knife | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | sneaking | stalking | victim | villain | waiting | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Fog Hollow) + The Iron Door | 0:45:46 - Bob and Eve see Fog Hollow | action scene | combination of themes | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | preparing | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Hiding) | 0:46:48 - Bob and Eve hide from Zaroff | action scene | combination of themes | count | hiding | jungle | leading lady | leading man | preparing | sneaking | tense | trap | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + The Iron Door | 0:49:03 - A big door | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dog | door | dramatic | jungle | opening | running | servant | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + Russian Waltz + Iron Door | 0:49:23 - Bob and Eve running away | chase scene | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | preparing | running | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Tremolo) + The Iron Door (Horn Call) | 0:49:40 - The Count blows his hunting horn | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dog | dramatic | fog | horn | jungle | leading lady | leading man | playing | running | scored source music | score to source | servant | source music | tense | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + Courage | 0:50:01 - Bob and Eve stumbling through the fog | chase scene | combination of themes | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | stumbling | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Tense) + The Iron Door (Horn Call) | 0:50:16 - Bob and Eve in the water | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dog | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | scored source music | servant | source music | stumbling | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Crocodile + Courage | 0:51:36 - A crocodile | chase scene | combination of themes | crocodile | dark | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | stumbling | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + Russian Waltz (Augmented) | 0:52:02 - Dogs running through the swamp | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dog | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | running | servant | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Accelerando) + The Iron Door | 0:53:02 - The dogs bark up the tree | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dark | dog | escaping | hiding | jumping | jungle | leading lady | leading man | lifting | log | mickey-mousing | running | servant | tense | tree | victim | villain | vine |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + The Iron Door | 0:53:33 - Bob and Eve run along a clifftop | chase scene | cliff | combination of themes | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Running) + The Iron Door | 0:54:08 - Bob runs through the jungle | chase scene | chasing | close-up | combination of themes | count | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | point-of-view shot | running | servant | tense | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + Russian Waltz + Iron Door | 0:54:46 - Bob and Eve run towards the waterfall | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | preparing | river | tense | victim | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Tremolo) + The Iron Door (Horn Call) | 0:55:08 - Count Zaroff approaching the waterfall | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dramatic | hiding | jungle | leading lady | leading man | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Risolutissimo) + The Iron Door | 0:56:17 - Eve is captured | capturing | climax | close-up | combination of themes | count | jungle | leading lady | ominous | river | servant | victim | villain | walking | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Meno) + The Iron Door | 1:00:50 - The Count rises | castle | combination of themes | dark | death | escaping | gun | knife | leading lady | leading man | rising | running | servant | victim |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Gathering | 1:49:06 - Agents in action | action scene | agent | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | factory | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | police | raid | running | rushing | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Rushing + Agents | 1:49:44 - Police advance | action scene | advancing | agent | combination of themes | factory | fugitive | gangster | hiding | leading man | murderer | police | raid | rushing | searching | tense |
Caged (1950) | Water Dripping + Caged (Tense) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | combination of themes | cut from film | dark | dissonant bass | hysteria | isolation | leading lady | mad scene | melodic cell | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ostinato | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | tense | uneasy | water effect |
Caged (1950) | Water Dripping + Foxtrot | NIF - not in film | 11th chord | combination of themes | cut from film | deceptive resolution | eerie | foxtrot | hysteria | isolation | mad scene | mickey-mousing | mysterious | prison | uneasy | water effect |
Caged (1950) | Water Dripping + Marie 2 | NIF - not in film | combination of themes | cut from film | hysteria | isolation | mad scene | mickey-mousing | mysterious | prison | tender | uneasy | water effect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Resolution) + Falling Snow (Resolution) | 2:22:03 - Henry talks to Henriette | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | diminished third chord | gentle | leading lady | minister | mode mixture | promising | resolution | school | snow | teacher |
Mara Maru (1952) | Gregory + Struggling | 1:16:57 - Gregory tries to free himself | action scene | beam | boat | captain | close-up | combination of themes | dark | digging | diver | diving | diving suit | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | heroic | hose | leading man | mickey-mousing | ocean | rushing | ship | struggling | treasure | tugging | underwater | working |
Mara Maru (1952) | Gregory + Raising Anchor | 1:21:31 - The anchor is raised | action scene | anchor | antogonist | captain | combination of themes | diver | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | private eye | rising | ship | ship | worker |