| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Comical) | 0:46:08 - Doctor examines a criminal | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | doctor | examining | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | pedal tone | robbery | rooftop | sequence | thief | underscoring |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Arms crossing | 0:47:10 - Criminal crosses his arms | arm | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | crossing | diminished 7th chord | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | rooftop | thief | wedge |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Cartoon | 1:04:49 - Jerry looks at newspaper cartoon of Rocky | 9th chord | advance plot | cartoon | chromatic parallelism | comical | leading man | priest | reading | room |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Cook | 1:05:06 - The cook hands a package to Jerry | advance plot | comical | conversing | cook | Irish | leading man | parallel fifths | priest | room |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Comical) | 0:09:17 - Eddie's dream ends abruptly | comical | double exposure | dream sequence | explosion | laughing | leading man | montage | student | transcribed by ear |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Comical) | 0:02:20 - Mortimer hides from the reporters | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | comical | disguise | establish character | hiding | leading lady | leading man | looking | marriage | office | reporter | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
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) | Here Comes the Bride (Comical) | 0:05:05 - Goofy man turns around | 9th chord | comical | common-tone diminished 7th | establish character | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | marriage | office | smiling | winking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Chasing | 0:14:48 - Mortimer chases Elaine around a tree | bride | cemetery | chasing | comical | flirting | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | mickey-mousing | secondary dominant |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Porcupine | 0:11:59 - A porcupine in a tree | cabin | climbing | comical | dying | establish character | falling | leading lady | porcupine | shooting | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Insolence | 0:37:06 - Rosa argues with her maid Jenny | advance plot | cleaning | comical | kitchen | leading lady | maid | obeying | wife |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Flirtation | 0:01:42 - Carmen flirts with Marlowe | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe | 0:02:01 - Marlowe gives Carmen a fake name | added-note chord | comical | common-tone dominant 7th | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | private eye | room |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Cop Grabs Bum) | 0:03:06 - Cop pushes old-timer | 9th chord | arguing | bridge | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | city | comical | establish setting | mickey-mousing | old man | police | pushing | rushing | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | Elephant Walk | 0:04:57 - Kids whistle as cop walks away | comical | establish character | gang | on-screen music | source music | street | teenager | whistling |
Crime School (1938) | Pants falling | 0:34:10 - Squirt's pants fall down | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | pants | reformatory | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | The Drunken Doctor | 0:36:35 - Drunk doctor comes in | advance plot | alcohol | altered dominant | comical | doctor | drinking | drunk | drunk | hospital | parallel period | reformatory |
Crime School (1938) | Spots | 0:49:20 - Squirt has spots on his pajamas | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | comedy | comical | conversing | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | paint | reformatory | spots | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Marble statue | 0:49:40 - Fats talks to Mark | comedy | comical | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | statue | teasing | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Painting) | 0:50:45 - The boys paint their room | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | comedy | comical | gang | painting | reformatory | setting | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Paints face | 0:50:55 - Boy paints the guard's face | accident | comedy | comical | mickey-mousing | painting | police | reformatory | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Slips on paint | 0:51:01 - Guard chases boy then slips and falls on paint | accident | chromatic scale | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | slipping | teenager | walking |
Crime School (1938) | Laughing | 0:51:11 - Mark laughs at the guard covered with paint | comedy | comical | hero | laughing | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory |
Crime School (1938) | Resolution | 1:22:31 - Sue enters the room | 42 chord | antagonist | calm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | conversing | hero | leading man | reformatory | resolution | resolution | tense | tritone |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | M-O-T-H-E-R | 0:05:01 - Drunken man sings | comical | drunk | establish character | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Throws date | 0:25:34 - Boy throws date | comical | establish character | mickey-mousing | ranch | teenager | throwing |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Ladder falls | 0:30:16 - The ladder falls | chromatic scale | comical | conflict | diminished 7th chord | falling | ladder | mickey-mousing | ranch | teenager |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | By a Waterfall | 0:55:35 - A shower sign | advance plot | cheerful | comical | hero | leading man | on-screen music | popular music | ranch | showering | singing | source music | teenager | whistling |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Marcia Grotesque | 1:01:48 - Johnnie talks to another boxer | advance plot | altered dominant | comical | conversing | hero | leading man | march | mode mixture | room |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Hiccough | 0:11:35 - Charlie hiccups | comical | drunk | establish character | hiccuping | leading man | mickey-mousing | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Cow | 0:11:39 - Man calls Charlie a cow | comical | cow | drunk | establish character | leading man | mickey-mousing | mooing | prison | prisoner | stinger | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Comedy fall | 0:13:08 - Joe falls over while milking the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | falling | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Humorous) | 0:13:13 - Joe talks to the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | conversing | cow | diminished triad | dissonant bass | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Playful) | 0:13:38 - Mabel talks to Joe | barn | comical | common-tone diminished 7th | cow | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | playful | prisoner | romantic |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe fights cow | 0:13:56 - Joe fights cow (off-screen) | augmented triad | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | cow | diminished 7th chord | fighting | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Laughing) | 0:14:07 - Mabel laughs at Joe | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | diminished 7th chord | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Laughing | 0:14:10 - Mabel laughs at Joe | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | diminished 7th chord | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Milkman) | 0:27:38 - Joe and Mabel talk to the milkman | advance plot | comical | glass | leading lady | leading man | milk | milkman | pizzicato | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | The Poster | 0:40:39 - Joe and Mabel see a sign for the train | chromatic sequence | comedy | comical | laughing | leading lady | leading man | runaway | sign | street |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Door slam | 0:23:50 - Chip closes the car door | car | comical | door | flashback | glissando |
The FBI Story (1959) | Lucy sits | 1:30:40 - Lucy defiantly puts her feet up on the couch | comical | couch | feet | flashback | heroine | mickey-mousing | sitting |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Fountain in the Park | 2:10:45 - Communist strolls through the park one day | bitonality | comical | familiar tune | flashback | park | popular music | strolling | syrupy | walking |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Drinking whiskey | 0:49:50 - Dan drinks | chromatic parallelism | comical | distressed | drinking | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | politician | quintal chord | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Indigestion | 0:50:48 - Lane complains of a hangover | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | distressed | grumbling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Slide whistle | 0:53:00 - Dan surprises Lute Mae | comical | employer | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | politician | room | surprising | transition |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Driving) | 0:53:02 - Lane drives Dan to the construction site | 13th chord | added-note chord | arriving | car | car | comical | common-chord modulation | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | politician | rushed | self-borrowing | transition | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Tenderly) | 1:03:37 - Dan is grateful for Lane's gift to him | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | comical | common-chord modulation | conversing | embracing | happy | husband | leading lady | leading man | maid | room | self-borrowing | tender | wife |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Face twitching | 0:16:59 - Lye's face twitches | antagonist | comical | conductor score | establish character | gangster | mickey-mousing | office | twitching |
| The Informer (1935) | Yankee Doodle (Octatonic) | 0:06:21 - Katie looks at the poster about a trip to America | American | comical | conversing | dark | diminished 7th chord | establish character | leading lady | leading man | octatonic | parallelism | patriotic tune | source music | street |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Jalopy | 1:28:41 - Run down jalopy slowly drives down the road | car | comical | driving |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | The Maid | 0:36:57 - Mildred's maid in the kitchen | 9th chord | advance plot | comical | conversing | cooking | heroine | kitchen | leading lady | maid | sequence | working |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Fishing | 0:13:46 - Catching a fish | advance plot | boat | boat | chef | comical | conversing | fish | fishing | friend | mickey-mousing |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Clocking out | 1:25:41 - Time card | climax | comical | mickey-mousing | montage | office | saleswoman | time card | working |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony | 0:17:34 - David whistles while helping a patient | classical music | comical | diminution | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | heroine | office | on-screen music | quotation | source music | whistling |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter | 1:33:09 - A man locks the gate of the asylum | asylum | comedy | comical | key | shuffling | street | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | 1:33:39 - The porter takes keys off of the wall | accompanied source music | asylum | comedy | comical | key | nursery rhyme | on screen music | singing | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter | 1:33:49 - The porter walks away | asylum | comedy | comical | key | maid | shuffling | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Shuffling Around) | 1:34:17 - The porter continues his work | accompanied source music | asylum | comedy | comical | key | nursery rhyme | on screen music | shuffling | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter (Minor) | 1:34:44 - The porter goes to the get the right key | asylum | comedy | comical | hurrying | key | shuffling | walking | worker |
The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter | 1:35:10 - The porter returns to lock the door | asylum | comical | escape | escaping | hiding | hurrying | key | locking | shuffling | sneaking | walking | worker |
| Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Jingle Bells | 0:07:51 - Spider sings | advance plot | bothering | business man | comic | comical | goofing around | on-screen music | room | salesman | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:11:18 - Spider and Curley talk to Steele | AABA structure | advance plot | club | comic | dancer | dancing | planning | salesman | self-borrowing | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | A Moment in the Dark | 0:14:05 - Curley turns on the radio | AABA structure | advance plot | comic | goofing around | office | prisoner | radio | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Ain't That the Way it Goes | 0:14:53 - Spider and Curley look around | AABA structure | advance plot | comic | conversing | goofing around | love interest | office | prisoner | radio | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | I'm Just a Vagabond Lover | 0:17:00 - Curley talks to Barbara | ABAC structure | advance plot | comic | conversing | goofing around | love interest | office | prisoner | radio | sentimental | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | I'm Wrapped Up in You | 0:18:18 - Spider dances with Violet | advance plot | comic | conversing | dancing | goofing around | love interest | office | prisoner | radio | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:39:35 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:40:44 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:41:43 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Chopsticks | 0:42:09 - Violet and Spider play a piano duet | advance plot | comic | comical | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:42:44 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Eldorania | 0:59:14 - A doctor tends to Spider's leg | advance plot | athlete | comic | conversing | doctor | field | plotting | prisoner | referee | relative key | source music | treating | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | El Capitan March | 1:01:51 - Spider makes Whitey sign a confession | advance plot | comic | criminal | field | plotting | prisoner | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Bide-More Alma Mater | 1:04:44 - Bidemore celebrates their victory | celebrating | comic | crowd | field | love interest | politician | prisoner | resolution | source music | upbeat | warden |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | The Prisoner's Song | 1:05:19 - Spider talks to Violet | comic | conversing | field | prisoner | resolution | source music | upbeat |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Penguin | 0:01:25 - A penguin | aquarium | comical | diminished 7th chord | establish setting | half-diminished 7th chord | penguin | transcribed by ear | waddling |
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