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31 results for "countermelody" in 14 films

FilmTheme nameInstanceTags
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)Happy Land (The End)1:57:05 - Mortimer carries Elaine awayaltered dominant | bride | countermelody | driver | end title sequence | familiar tune | groom | kissing | leading lady | leading man | resolution | street | The End | upbeat

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Happy Land (March)1:57:20 - Cast listcast list | countermelody | end title sequence | transcribed by ear | upbeat
City for Conquest (1940)Tone Poem D (Main Title)0:01:00 - Credits over a city skyline9th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | blue note | bluesy | cast list | city | countermelody | mode mixture | opening title sequence | sentimental | skyline

City for Conquest (1940)

Tone Poem B + Train0:01:19 - Sign for the Williamsburg Bridge9th 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)

Sidewalks of New York (Snake)0:02:35 - A montage of New York City scenes13th chord | 64 chord | altered dominant | bridge | chromatic sequence | city | conversing | countermelody | double exposure | Dutch angle | establish setting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | grand | montage | old man | police | snake effect | soliloquy

City for Conquest (1940)

Tone Poem A (Molto Expressivo)0:48:44 - Danny talks with Peggy9th chord | 64 chord | appoggiatura | boxer | countermelody | dancer | embracing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | plagal cadence | romantic | sequence | street

City for Conquest (1940)

Tone Poem CNIF - not in film9th chord | bluesy | concert scene | countermelody | cut from film | enharmonic modulation | enharmonic respelling | mode mixture | sus chord

City for Conquest (1940)

Tone Poem DNIF - not in film9th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | blue note | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert scene | countermelody | cut from film | mode mixture | parallelism

City for Conquest (1940)

Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy)1:42:56 - Old timer talks to himselfaltered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | countermelody | old man | resolution | sentimental | soliloquy
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)Dust Be My Destiny (Appassionato)1:12:09 - Mabel and Joe hide from the reportersconflict | countermelody | hero | hiding | hospital | leading lady | leading man | passionate | underscoring
Each Dawn I Die (1939)Each Dawn B (Augmented)0:00:36 - Cast listaugmentation | bleak | cast list | countermelody | dark | diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | prison
Flamingo Road (1949)Lute Mae0:01:26 - Lute Mae's Roadhouse13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | bluesy | club | countermelody | dancing | eating | establish setting | musician | on-screen music | playing | self-borrowing | simulated source music | voice-over

Flamingo Road (1949)

Lute Mae (A Reminiscence)0:42:04 - A female prisoner talks about Lute Mae's13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | bluesy | conversing | countermelody | Gershwinesque | leading lady | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing

Flamingo Road (1949)

Lute Mae (Not in Film)NIF - not in film13th 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)

Lane (Lento)0:50:04 - Dan meets Laneadded-note chord | conversing | countermelody | gentle | graceful | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room

Flamingo Road (1949)

Lute Mae (Quasi Blues)0:51:46 - Dan flirts with Lane13th chord | added-note chord | conversing | countermelody | flirting | flirty | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room | self-borrowing | sultry | thematic transference
The Informer (1935)The Informer (Walking)0:01:44 - Gypo walks down the streetcountermelody | establish character | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | poster | Scotch snap | street | walking
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)Lullaby (Strings)0:52:30 - Vergie puts a ribbon in Joan's hairadvance plot | child | chromatic mediant | conversing | countermelody | daughter | direct modulation | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | mother | pedal tone | reunion | secret | shop
Kid Galahad (1937)The Moon Is In Tears Tonight (The Kid)0:50:05 - Louise looks at her Kid Galahad scrapbookadvance plot | cheerful | countermelody | not by Steiner | organizing | parallelism | room | scrapbook | sister | transcribed by ear

Kid Galahad (1937)

Heart's Affair (Arriving)0:58:30 - A newspaper headlinearriving | countermelody | farm | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | newspaper | playful | reading | sister | transcribed by ear
Traveling Husbands (1931)There's a Sob in My Heart (Dixieland)0:34:27 - Music is played in a night clubbanjo | countermelody | dancing | Dixieland | double exposure | drums | improvisation | jazz | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat

Traveling Husbands (1931)

There's a Sob in My Heart (Sentimental)1:10:39 - People are sad as the radio playsAABA structure | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | countermelody | crying | leading lady | leading man | popular song | radio | resolution | room | salesman | sentimental | somber | transcribed by ear
We Are Not Alone (1939)Surprise Symphony (Calm)0:12:01 - David's treatment is successfulcalm | classical music | countermelody | deceptive resolution | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | heroine | quotation | room
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932)Bide-More Alma Mater0:00:46 - Cast list and prison signcast list | cheerful | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | countermelody | establish place | opening title sequence | transcribed by ear | upbeat
Is My Face Red? (1932)Sidewalks of New York (Harbor)0:20:07 - New York City skylinecalm | countermelody | New York | parallelism | popular music | setting | transcribed by ear | transition | traveling
Gridiron Flash (1934)Gridiron Flash0:00:24 - Cast listadded-note chord | cast list | countermelody | march | opening title sequence | starring list | title of film | upbeat

Gridiron Flash (1934)

Gridiron Flash0:33:51 - Sports montagecountermelody | fanfare | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | upbeat

Gridiron Flash (1934)

Gridiron Flash0:45:19 - Eddie in his roomadded-note chord | advance plot | cheering | countermelody | leading man | march | room | upbeat

Gridiron Flash (1934)

Gridiron Flash1:02:36 - The scoreboardadded-note chord | athlete | celebrating | countermelody | crowd | football | football game | leading lady | leading man | march | resolution | The End | upbeat
Star of Midnight (1935)Midnight in Manhattan (Tango)0:08:56 - Dancers in a Broadway showadvance plot | countermelody | dancer | dancing | energetic | mode mixture | Neapolitan | on-screen music | pit orchestra | score to source | source music | syncopation | tango | theater

Star of Midnight (1935)

Midnight in Manhattan (Exotic)0:09:14 - Clay and Donna in the audienceadvance plot | altered dominant | conversing | countermelody | exotic | exotic | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | on-screen music | score to source | source music | theater