| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:14:49 - Henriette hears the Duke and Duchess arguing | arriving | butler | common-chord modulation | deceptive resolution | duchess | duke | establish setting | interrupting | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | room | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald | 0:32:53 - Henriette helps Raynald | advance plot | caring | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | delicate | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | room | sweet |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Tranquillo 2) | 0:34:17 - Henriette comforts Raynald | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | child | comforting | common-chord modulation | conversing | dark | delicate | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel 63s | room | suspension |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Very Emotional) | 0:35:57 - The Duke thanks Henriette | advance plot | calm | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel 63s | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Prayer | 0:36:36 - The Abbe prays for Raynald | child | common-chord modulation | duke | governess | hymn-like | illness | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | praying | priest | religious scene | room | sequence | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Agitato) | 0:38:09 - The Duchess argues with the doctor | arguing | common-chord modulation | doctor | duchess | illness | leading lady | mode mixture | religious scene | room | syncopation | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Molto Expressivo) | 0:44:33 - Henriette reads a letter from the Duchess | advance plot | common-chord modulation | governess | leading lady | letter | on-screen text | positive | reading | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald (Carriage) | 0:46:53 - Horses pulling a carriage | 64 chord | carriage | child | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | conversing | countermelody | foreign key modulation | governess | horse | leading lady | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | pleasant | riding | street | traveling scene | trotting | upbeat |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Very Emotional) | 0:49:01 - The Duke looks at Henriette | advance plot | child | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | delicate | duke | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | looking | romance | romantic | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Heaven Theme | 1:28:16 - Henriette tells the Duke about herself | added-note chord | common-chord modulation | duke | falling in love scene | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | storytelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time (Ominous) | 1:31:04 - The children enter the palace | 9th chord | 64 chord | augmented sixth chord | bright | cheerful | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | deceptive resolution | diminished third chord | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | ominous | palace | surprise | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Agitato) | 1:34:41 - Henriette rushes away from the Duchess | chattering | child | chromatic sequence | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | duchess | governess | leading lady | mode mixture | room | somber | worried |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald | 1:41:25 - Henriette says goodbye to the children | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | crying | farewell scene | foreign key modulation | gentle | governess | leading lady | room | tender |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Dolce | 2:05:51 - Henriette talks to Henry | 9th chord | 11th chord | advance plot | calm | common-chord modulation | conversing | gentle | leading lady | minister | pleasant | prison | prisoner | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess | 2:17:58 - Henriette narrates her story | child | common-chord modulation | leading lady | mode mixture | resolution | school | storytelling | student | teacher | tense |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Maestoso) | 0:08:07 - Discharge papers from the penitentiary | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | ledger | main title | marching | mickey-mousing | montage | prison | prisoner | serious | solemn | transition | writing |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Rocky and Laury (Not In Film 1) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | common-chord modulation | conversing | cut from film | establish character | following | gangster | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | street | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus (Mysterioso) | 1:05:33 - Jerry looks at note from Rocky | advance plot | charity | classical music | common-chord modulation | friendship | leading man | letter | mode mixture | money | mysterious | pedal tone | priest | room | sacred | source to score | thinking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pleading | 1:11:08 - Laury pleads for Rocky | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | crying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleading | priest | room | somber |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams B | 0:01:33 - Two young people in love | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | conductor score | conversing | establish character | gentle | leading lady | leading man | lovers | love scene | snuggling | street |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Marcia Maestoso) | 0:08:58 - Eddie dreams | applauding | common-chord modulation | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | fragmentation | leading man | meter change | montage | reciting | thematic transformation | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Newspaper Montage) | 0:45:04 - Newspaper headlines | augmentation | comforting | common-chord modulation | crying | double exposure | grandmother | headline | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | room | somber | spinning |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Lascia ch'io pianga | NIF - not in film | ABA structure | classical music | common-chord modulation | cut from film | da capo | solemn | ternary form |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Foxtrot | NIF - not in film | AABA structure | common-chord modulation | cut from film | happy | plagal cadence | sentence form | ternary form |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Transition | 0:00:29 - Cast list | cast list | common-chord modulation | dissonant bass | ominous | opening title sequence | sinister | tritone |
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 |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Determined) | 0:47:56 - Marlowe enters the apartment building | arriving | ascending | bold | common-chord modulation | determined | fragmentation | heroic | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | parallel 63s | parallelism | private eye | sequence | stairs | street | walking |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:13:03 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | brother | common-chord modulation | composer | conversing | deceptive resolution | establish character | leading man | musician | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Grazioso) | 0:30:04 - Danny shaves | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | conversing | delicate | fragmentation | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | shaving |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Dolce) | 0:30:28 - Peggy talks to Danny | 9th chord | 11th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | common-chord modulation | conversing | flirting | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love scene | playful | room | shaving |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Waltz) | 0:31:48 - Peggy and Danny talk about the future | 9th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | boat | calm | common-chord modulation | conversing | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | romantic |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Knock Out) | 0:38:33 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing | boxing ring | common-chord modulation | double exposure | falling | march | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:42:10 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | advance plot | boxer | brother | common-chord modulation | composer | conversing | crowd | deceptive resolution | leading man | musician | on-screen music | party | piano | playing | romantic | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (The Song of the City) | 1:23:05 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 13th chord | advance plot | brother | common-chord modulation | composer | diminished 7th chord | leading man | listening | musician | on-screen music | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear | victim |
| Crime School (1938) | Sue (Quasi Blues) | 0:11:08 - Sue talks to Frankie | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | common-chord modulation | conversing | crying | establish character | foreign key modulation | Gershwinesque | heroine | leading lady | room | somber |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Lying | 1:25:16 - Johnnie lies to Peggy about where he's going | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | climax | common-chord modulation | detective | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | lying | minor-major 7th chord | room | turbulent |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Here Comes the Bride (Advertisement) | 0:31:07 - A marquee advertising "Marriage on Stage Tonite" | common-chord modulation | crowd | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | happy | love scene | marriage | street | theater |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose | 0:40:51 - Joe and Mabel in Nick's Diner | accompanied source music | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | diner | establish character | familiar tune | friend | happy | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel double period | popular song | radio | shopkeeper | singing | source music | ternary form |
| 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) | Lute Mae (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | countermelody | cut from film | cut from film | deceptive resolution | lovers meet | self-borrowing |
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 |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family (Triste) | 0:38:00 - Matt enters his home | advance plot | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | leading man | pacing | room | self-borrowing | solemn | somber | thinking | undercover agent |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Asa | 0:02:02 - The Timberlake crest | 64 chord | added-note chord | common-chord modulation | establish character | noble | plagal cadence | street | worker | working |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Lento) | 0:14:59 - Roy talks about their future | 64 chord | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | dark | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | embracing | leading lady | leading man | room | sweet |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Encouragement) | 0:29:56 - Roy tries to cheer Craig up | 9th chord | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | encouraging | leading lady | leading man | park | sequential modulation | uplifting |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Mysterioissimo) | 0:04:42 - A shadow appears | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | home | leading lady | light | looking | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallel fifths | servant | turning on |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Screwyoso) | 0:14:42 - The bottom of the stairs | advance plot | common-chord modulation | dramatic | emotional | home | leading lady | point of view | recounting | sequence |
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 |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert | 0:20:18 - Bert comes home | 9th chord | added-note chord | arriving | common-chord modulation | cooking | establish character | flashback | gentle | heroine | husband | leading lady | mode mixture | room | self-borrowing | street |
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) | 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) | 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) | Work | 1:08:00 - Montage of restaurants | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | guest | montage | restaurant | self-borrowing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby | 0:00:09 - Starring cast list | AABA structure | calm | cast list | common-chord modulation | lullaby | opening title sequence | pleasant | starring list | title of film |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Kuckuck, Kuckuck | 0:03:43 - An old car drives by | cheerful | child | children's song | common-chord modulation | dancing | establish setting | establish time | park | playing |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Semper Fidelis | 0:30:32 - A march is played outside | advance plot | celebrating | cheering | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | crowd | gossiper | leading lady | leading man | march | patriotic tune | politician | source music | spouse | street | upbeat |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Not in Score) | 0:32:18 - Vergie and John look at a baby picture | AABA structure | calm | common-chord modulation | conversing | cuddling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | lullaby | peaceful | room | score to source | secret love | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Park) | 0:36:28 - Nurse and baby in the park | AABA structure | added-note chord | advance plot | calm | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | leading lady | lullaby | nurse | park | peaceful | waiting |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Darktown Strutters' Ball | 0:40:06 - Sadie and Mike in a bar | advance plot | business man | club | common-chord modulation | conversing | friend | love interest | plotting | ragtime | source music | upbeat |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Solo Violin) | 0:52:06 - Vergie gets a ribbon for Joan | advance plot | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | fragmentation | gentle | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:00:07 - Joan and Ranny talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | light | love interest | love scene | optimistic | proposal | proposing | room | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Here Comes the Bride | 1:00:46 - Joan and Ranny talk about marriage | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | familiar tune | gentle | love interest | love scene | peaceful | proposal | proposing | romantic | room | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:02:11 - Joan and Ranny enter | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | arguing | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | room | surprise | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender (Ethereal) | 1:05:26 - Ranny talks to Joan's parents | added-note chord | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | daughter | leading man | love interest | mode mixture | pedal tone | room | sentimental | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | A Boy and a Girl | 1:07:00 - John and Vergie listen to the radio | advance plot | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | conversing | leading lady | leading man | listening | room | secret lover | sentimental | simulated source music | source to score | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Dolce) | 1:08:00 - Vergie talks with John | 9th chord | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | leading lady | leading man | room | score to source | secret lover | tender |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Cello Solo) | 1:08:38 - Vergie talks with John | added-note chord | advance plot | common-chord modulation | confident | hopeful | hoping | leading lady | leading man | room | secret lover | sweet | warm |
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 |
| Rockabye (1932) | Run-Around | 0:52:45 - Montage of Broadway scenes | common-chord modulation | dominant pedal | montage | self-borrowing | theater | upbeat |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful | 0:00:07 - Title of the film | altered dominant | Beverly Hills | cast list | common-chord modulation | house | main title | mode mixture | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | ostinato | pedal tone | serious | starring list | title of film |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Somber) | 0:22:24 - Bob comforts Chris | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | comfort | comforting | common-chord modulation | husband | leading lady | love scene | mode mixture | ostinato | pedal tone | room | somber | victim |
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 (Angry) | 1:15:00 - Bob looks around | angry | common-chord modulation | deceptive resolution | husband | intense | meandering | Neapolitan | ostinato | room | sequential modulation | transition | walking |
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 |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (End Cast) | 1:48:07 - Closing credits | closing credits | common-chord modulation | dramatic | end title sequence | Neapolitan | ostinato | pedal tone | turbulent |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Max Steiner | 0:00:53 - Max Steiner's name | augmented sixth chord | bold | cast list | common-chord modulation | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Somber) | 0:38:52 - Leni reacts | 9th chord | antagonist | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | evaded cadence | familiar tune | folk song | garden | German | heroine | mode mixture | quotation | sentimental | sigh gesture | somber |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Triste | 0:50:45 - David talks to Leni | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | gentle | hero | heroine | home | room | sad |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Death Sentence) | 1:33:07 - The judge sentences David and Leni to death | 9th chord | common-chord modulation | conflict | courtroom | courtroom scene | crowd | dark | familiar tune | folk song | German | quotation | reverse picardy | sentencing | verdict |
| Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Bide-More Alma Mater | 0:00:46 - Cast list and prison sign | cast list | cheerful | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | countermelody | establish place | opening title sequence | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Burlesque | 0:13:10 - Backstage at a Broadway show | ABAC structure | advance plot | arguing | Broadway | burlesque | cheerful | common-chord modulation | dancer | leading man | pedal tone | plagal cadence | popular music | source music | stage | transcribed by ear |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron C | 0:01:08 - Smokey Joe fights the Indians | ambush | common-chord modulation | cowboy | establish character | establish setting | fanfare | gun | gunshot | horse | Indian | leading man | noble | parallel double period | prairie | riding | self-borrowing | shooting | stagecoach | title card | transcribed by ear |
| The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Transgression | 0:18:54 - Ms. Wren descends the staircase | 9th chord | AABA structure | advance plot | arriving | common-chord modulation | conversing | party | radio | romantic | self-borrowing | transcribed by ear |
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Lady | 0:20:17 - People talk at a party | 9th chord | AAB structure | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | dinner | party | peaceful | radio | sequence | transcribed by ear |
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Cimarron Theme | 0:23:24 - Two people look at some portraits | AABC structure | advance plot | common-chord modulation | conversing | peaceful | portrait | room | self-borrowing | transcribed by ear |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Thirteen Women | 0:00:34 - Cast list on the pages of a book | book | cast list | common-chord modulation | funeral march | funereal | harmonic sequence | opening title sequence | relative key | somber | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Thirteen Women (Destiny) | 0:07:52 - Ursula talks to the swami | antagonist | common-chord modulation | conversing | destiny | establish character | fortune teller | harmonic sequence | leading lady | predicting | relative key | room | somber | swami | transcribed by ear |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender | 0:22:44 - Packaged-up food | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | common-chord modulation | detective | direct modulation | food | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | ordering | reporter | store | worker | working |
| Another Face (1935) | Success at any Price | 0:00:00 - Beeping RKO radio tower | bold | cast list | common-chord modulation | fanfare | lyrical | opening title sequence | radio tower | RKO tower | title of film | transcribed by ear |
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