All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Expressivo con Schmalzo) | 0:39:24 - The Duchess writes a letter | angry | chromatic sequence | crying | despair | duchess | foreign key modulation | leading lady | mad scene | on-screen text | room | sequence | sequential modulation | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation | 0:39:54 - The Duchess writes a letter | angry | chromatic scale | crying | despair | duchess | leading lady | mad scene | on-screen text | parallelism | room | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Very Emotional) | 0:41:00 - The Duchess pleads with the Abbe | angry | arguing | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | crying | despair | dissonant bass | illness | leading lady | mad scene | priest | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Isabelle | 1:07:33 - Isabelle cries | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic sequence | comforting | crying | governess | leading lady | room | sequence | serious | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Isabelle 2 | 1:08:44 - Isabelle talks to Henriette | advance plot | child | comforting | countermelody | crying | governess | leading lady | room | serious | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Gentle) | 1:09:26 - Isabelle talks to Henriette | 9th chord | advance plot | child | chromatic parallelism | comforting | crying | gentle | governess | leading lady | Neapolitan | room | sweet |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Cello Solo) | 1:10:09 - Henriette comforts Isabelle | advance plot | child | comforting | crying | gentle | governess | leading lady | pedal tone | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:20:55 - Henriette calms the children down | caretaker | child | conflict | crying | dissonant bass | governess | leading lady | pc set | room | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:21:26 - The Duke descends the stairs | child | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | crying gesture | descending | governess | leading lady | room | somber | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Dolschissimo) | 1:36:07 - Henriette reads the locket inscription | 64 chord | advance plot | calm | child | chromatic mediant | conversing | crying | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | gift | governess | leading lady | locket | mode mixture | room | stinger | tender | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Romantic) | 1:39:53 - The Duke reads the locket inscription | 9th chord | chromatic mediant | conversing | crying | crying gesture | duke | foreign key modulation | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | romantic | room | sigh gesture | tender |
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) | Raynald (Dark) | 1:41:54 - Raynald talks with Henriette | child | chromatic sequence | conversing | crying | deceptive resolution | farewell scene | governess | leading lady | room | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Grandioso) + Desperation (Grandioso) | 1:53:13 - The police wagon leaves | arresting | bold | carriage | conflict | conversing | crowd | crying | dark | dissonant bass | fragmentation | landlady | leading lady | ominous | soldier | street | suspect | tense | testifying |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Agitato 2 | 1:59:31 - Henriette is arrested | agitated | crowd | crying | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | headline | leading lady | leaving | mob | montage | newspaper | soldier | street | suspect | yelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Crying | 2:12:15 - Pierre looks at Henriette | 64 chord | caretaker | chromatic scale | crying | detective | devastated | leading lady | looking | palace | prisoner | soldier | somber | suspect | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Adagio) | 2:18:52 - A child begins crying | child | chromatic mediant | crying | deceptive resolution | leading lady | resolution | school | somber | storytelling | student | teacher |
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 |
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 | tone cluster | underscoring | wailing |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus (Mournful) | 1:34:12 - Jerry cries after Rocky dies | added-note chord | climax | crying | death | dissonant bass | execution chamber | leading man | mourning | pedal tone | priest | prison | redemption | reverse picardy | sacred | somber |
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) | Dreams (Eddie’s Prayer) | 1:22:14 - Eddie behind bars | added-note chord | climax | crying | dramatic | jail | leading man | murderer | praying | prisoner | religious | sacred |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Dejected) | 0:49:45 - Rosa hangs up the phone | advance plot | cafe | crying | leading lady | somber | telephone |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | I’m in a Jam with Baby | 0:54:39 - Rosa walks down the street | advance plot | arriving | bouncer | club | crying | departing | jazz | leading lady | sentimental | sitting | source music | stranger |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Agitato Molto Marcato) | 0:55:48 - Rosa runs through the streets | agitated | crazy person | crying | familiar tune | laughing | leading lady | mad scene | manic | popular tune | running | rushing | scaring | stranger | street | tense |
The Breaking Point (1950) | The Breaking Point (Ethereal) | 1:34:41 - Harry recognizes Lucy | 9th chord | boat | climax | comforting | conversing | crying | ethereal | leading lady | leading man | mixed meter | mode mixture | sailor | sweet | wife |
The Breaking Point (1950) | The Breaking Point (Cellos) | 1:35:14 - Harry talks with Lucy | boat | climax | comforting | conversing | crying | ethereal | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | mixed meter | sailor | sweet | wife |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Calm | 1:35:38 - Lucy leaves | augmented triad | boat | climax | comforting | conversing | crying | ethereal | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | sailor | sweet | wife |
The Breaking Point (1950) | The Breaking Point (Triste) | 1:35:50 - Harry is carried out on a stretcher | carrying | child | climax | crowd | crying | deceptive resolution | doctor | harbor | leading lady | leading man | sailor | somber | watching | wife |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Leona | 1:36:26 - Leona watches | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic parallelism | climax | crowd | crying | doctor | harbor | leading lady | leading man | sailor | somber | watching | wife |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Sad Boy | 1:36:44 - Sad orphaned boy looks on | 9th chord | 11th chord | blue note | child | climax | crowd | crying | harbor | leaving | somber | spiritual | triumphant | watching |
Caged (1950) | Mrs. Benton (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | comforting | common-tone modulation | crying | cut from film | disbelief | establish character | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | office | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | realization | warden |
Caged (1950) | Crying | NIF - not in film | comforting | crying | cut from film | deceptive resolution | dramatic | establish character | leading lady | office | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | sequential modulation | warden |
Caged (1950) | Mrs. Benton (Not in Film 2) | NIF - not in film | comforting | crying | cut from film | establish character | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | office | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | warden |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | bed | crazy person | crying | cut from film | leading lady | mad scene | oscillation | prison | prisoner | sleeping | tense | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Madness | NIF - not in film | agitated | bed | chromatic scale | crazy person | crying | cut from film | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | prison | prisoner | sleeping | standing |
Caged (1950) | Train Whistle Hallucination | NIF - not in film | acceleration | agitated | bed | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crazy person | crying | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | glass | hallucinating | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | pedal tone | polychord | prison | prisoner | screaming | smashing |
Caged (1950) | Caged (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | bed | crazy person | crying | cut from film | dark | glass | leading lady | mad scene | pc set | prison | prisoner |
Caged (1950) | Wailing | NIF - not in film | agitated | bed | crazy person | crying | crying effect | cut from film | glass | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | pc set | prison | prisoner | wailing |
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 |
Caged (1950) | Wailing (Ominous) | NIF - not in film | bed | bleeding | blood | crazy person | crying | cut from film | dark | leading lady | mad scene | ominous | ostinato | prison | prisoner | tritone | wailing | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Crying (Poco Agitato) | 0:44:27 - Mrs. Benton paces | baby | childbirth | conversing | crying | doctor | infirmary | leading lady | mickey-mousing | operation scene | oscillation | pacing | prison | prisoner | tense | triadic transformation | uneasy | walking | warden |
City for Conquest (1940) | In the Evening | 0:45:08 - Peggy in her dressing room | arguing | boxer | conflict | conversing | crying | dancer | dressing room | leading lady | leading man | parallel double period | punching | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | A Girl Like You | 0:46:49 - Danny in Peggy's dressing room | boxer | conflict | crying | dancer | dressing room | leading lady | leading man | leaving | parallel double period | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Farewell) | 0:55:31 - Peggy bids farewell to Danny | 9th chord | appoggiatura | augmented sixth chord | conversing | crying | embracing | enharmonic respelling | farewell scene | leading lady | leading man | leaving | mode mixture | plagal cadence | romantic | sentimental | street |
City for Conquest (1940) | Piggy Wiggy Woo | 1:10:52 - Peggy cries | advance plot | conversing | crying | dancer | dressing room | leading lady | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Lento 2) | 1:28:11 - Peggy cries | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | conversing | crying | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | room | sequence | somber |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem D (Dolce) | 1:28:33 - Gladys talks to Peggy | 9th chord | 11th chord | advance plot | blue note | chromatic sequence | comforting | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | crying | friend | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | newspaper | parallel fifths | room | sweet |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Lento) | 1:35:02 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | audience | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | crying | leading lady | linear chromaticism | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | polychord | romantic | somber | source music | tender | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Tutti 2) | 1:36:41 - Danny's figure appears in the concert hall | 9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | crying | deceptive resolution | double exposure | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading man | listening | mode mixture | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | romantic | sentimental | smiling | source music | watching | zoom out |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Chorus) | 1:41:14 - Danny talks with Peggy | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | chromatic sequence | conversing | crying | ethereal | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | optimistic | reunion | reuniting | romantic | shimmery | street | suspension | 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 |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Minor) | 0:20:38 - Judge sentences boys to the reformatory | augmented sixth chord | chromatic parallelism | courthouse | crying | dissonant bass | gang | heroine | judge | leading lady | leading man | sister | somber | stinger | teenager | trial |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Crying) | 1:06:29 - Peggy cries after Johnnie leaves | 11th chord | conflict | crying | leading lady | leading man | room | somber |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Stephanie (Weeping) | 1:28:53 - Stephanie leaves Clementi | crying | deception | flashback | somber |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi B | 1:36:49 - Clementi sends Zina off to her hotel | crying | deception | flashback |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi's Mother (Disappointed) | 1:46:39 - Clementi's mother realizes that he brought her to America to help him escape | crying | flashback | honor | mother | refusal |
Deep Valley (1947) | Love Theme (Molto Expressivo) | 0:23:07 - Libby watches them take Barry | boss | conflict | convict | crying | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | somber | street | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:31:10 - Close-up on Libby | arguing | conflict | crying | dark | dramatic | father | leading lady | lightning | room | storm | tense | thunder | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Deep Valley (Kiss) | 1:16:19 - Barry kisses Libby | advance plot | barn | convict | crying | embracing | fugitive | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | tender |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Stormy) | 1:36:26 - Cliff looks for Ellie | barn | climax | convict | crying | dark | father | fugitive | hiding | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mother | running | rushing | sneaking | tense | yard |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Running) | 1:37:23 - Libby chases Barry | arguing | car | chasing | climax | convict | crying | dramatic | driving | fleeing | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | running | street |
Deep Valley (1947) | Molto Expressivo | 1:37:28 - Barry pushes Libby away | arguing | car | chasing | climax | convict | crying | dramatic | driving | falling | fleeing | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | running | street |
Deep Valley (1947) | Deep Valley (Climactic) | 1:37:35 - Libby on the ground | car | chasing | climax | convict | crying | dramatic | driving | fleeing | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | street |
Deep Valley (1947) | Deep Valley (Delicato 2) | 1:41:39 - Libby goes to Barry | comforting | convict | crying | death scene | delicate | dying | forest | fugitive | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | resolution | reuniting | tender |
Deep Valley (1947) | Deep Valley (Dying) | 1:42:30 - Barry talks to Libby | comforting | convict | crying | death scene | delicate | dying | forest | fugitive | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | resolution | reuniting | tender |
Deep Valley (1947) | Breeze | 1:43:22 - Libby looks at Barry | convict | crying | death | death scene | ethereal | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | magical | resolution | wind effect |
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 |
The FBI Story (1959) | Egg Hunt (Lento) | 1:27:41 - Lucy cries and comforts her daughter | child | crying | Easter | eggs | flashback | hunting |
The FBI Story (1959) | Lucy A (Tragico) | 2:06:03 - Chip and Lucy mourn together | crying | flashback | heroine | mourning | weeping |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Appassionato) | 1:32:54 - Dan visits Lane in prison | crying | embracing | foreign key modulation | husband | joyous | kissing | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | prison | resolution | reuniting | self-borrowing | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Dolce) | 1:33:08 - Dan and Lane embrace | crying | dark | embracing | husband | kissing | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | peaceful | prison | resolution | reuniting | self-borrowing | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Delicato) | 1:33:28 - Lane smiles as Dan | 13th chord | added-note chord | crying | delicate | husband | kissing | leading lady | leading man | prison | resolution | reuniting | romance | self-borrowing | sentimental | wife |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Anna (Funereal) | 1:20:28 - Mario's coffin | antagonist | boss | conversing | crying | dark | funeral | funeral | gangster | leading man | mourning | priest | wife |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (Tragic) | 1:17:10 - Georgia holds Steve | 9th chord | augmented triad | climax | comforting | conversing | corpse | cradling | criminal | crying | death | dying | familiar tune | gambler | henchman | leading lady | leading man | murderer | police | popular music | reporter | singer | street | tense | tragic | wife |
Illegal (1955) | Ellen (Triste) | 1:10:23 - Ellen is overcome with emotion | crying | emotional | heroine |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley | 0:53:23 - Roy comforts Stanley | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | comforting | crying | gentle | leading lady | room | sister | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley Introduction | 0:53:32 - Roy comforts Stanley | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic scale | comforting | crying | leading lady | room | sister | tense | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | How Do I Know It's Sunday | 0:57:12 - Stanley starts a record playing | AABA structure | advance plot | conversing | crying | dancing | father | flirting | leading lady | leading man | popular music | record player | room | sister | source music | upbeat | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Uncle Fitzroy | 1:04:26 - Uncle Fitzroy talks to Stanley | augmented sixth chord | conflict | conversing | crying | dancing | flirting | leading lady | room | solemn | uncle | whole-tone chord | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Valse Triste) | 1:26:23 - Stanley confesses | 9th chord | altered dominant | appoggiatura | arguing | circle of fifths | climax | confessing | confession | criminal | crying | dramatic | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | room | suspect | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Slowly Extended) | 1:26:39 - Stanley confesses | 9th chord | agitated | arguing | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | confessing | confession | criminal | crying | dissonant bass | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mother | room | suspect |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Extended) | 1:27:33 - Stanley goes upstairs | 9th chord | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | climax | conversing | criminal | crying | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | room | somber | suspect | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Love Theme (Gentle) | 1:27:58 - Roy talks to Craig | 9th chord | accusing | altered dominant | climax | conversing | criminal | crying | embracing | gentle | iii chord | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | room | sneaking | tender |
In This Our Life (1942) | Maestoso | 1:31:51 - Stanley runs off crying | conflict | criminal | crying | departing | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading lady | polychord | room | running | street | uncle | yelling |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Crying) | 1:33:37 - Stanley crying in her car | 9th chord | appoggiatura | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | dark | dramatic | driving | fleeing | harmonic sequence | leading lady | police | somber | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Desperate) | 1:34:02 - The police in hot pursuit | 9th chord | chase scene | chasing | chromatic parallelism | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | fragmentation | leading lady | police | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:34:09 - Stanley's eyes in the rear-view mirror | 9th chord | acceleration | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | pc set | police | street | tense | tone cluster | underscoring |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Tired and Sad) | 0:05:49 - Katie talks to Gypo | conversing | crying | diminished 7th chord | establish character | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | Scotch snap | sobbing gesture | somber | street |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Hurt) | 0:06:58 - Katie is upset with Gypo and walks away upset | agitated | chromatic scale | crying | establish character | leading lady | leading man | leaving | street | tritone | upset |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Suspicion) | 0:29:47 - Gypo leaves the wake | 64 chord | antagonist | coin | crying | dissonant bass | dropping | giving | leading man | leaving | mickey-mousing | money | mourner | pivotal scene | room | Scotch snap | sigh gesture | somber | staring |
The Informer (1935) | Dan and Mary (Dolce) | 0:57:51 - Dan tells Mary: "I'll come back for you" | 11th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | crying | dissonant bass | embracing | hero | love interest | love scene | love theme | mode mixture | romantic | room |
The Informer (1935) | Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms | 0:58:23 - Singing continues (from the previous scene) | advance plot | antagonist | crowd | crying | familiar tune | folk song | leading man | on-screen music | party | sentimental | singing |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Confession) | 1:16:00 - Gypo confesses and cries | 9th chord | altered dominant | antagonist | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | guilt | half-diminished 7th chord | headquarters | leading man | pedal tone | pedal tone | remorseful | room | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Despair) | 1:16:18 - Gypo confesses and cries | antagonist | climax | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | dissonant bass | 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 |
Key Largo (1948) | Moanin’ Low (Quasi Appassionato) | 0:58:38 - McCloud gets a drink for Gaye | alcohol | bluesy | boss | crying | develop character | familiar tune | father | gangster | helping | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | somber | source to score |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Lacework) | 0:04:55 - Worker picks up Leslie's lacework | changing meter | crying | foreign key modulation | home | leading lady | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | sequence | sequential modulation |
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) | Robert and Leslie | 0:15:28 - Robert comforts Leslie | advance plot | appoggiatura | comforting | crying | gentle | home | leading lady | love theme | murder | pedal tone | sigh gesture | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie | 0:41:12 - Howard says he will help Leslie | advance plot | appoggiatura | calm | chromatic mediant | crying | deception | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | sigh gesture | somber | suspension | tender |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (Triste) | 0:42:17 - Leslie and Howard talk about her husband | advance plot | appoggiatura | calm | chromatic mediant | crying | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | resolution | sigh gesture | somber | suspension | tender |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Dramatic) | 1:18:32 - Leslie confesses to Robert | confessing | conflict | crying | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (Mournful) | 1:19:00 - Robert cries after hearing the confession | conflict | crying | crying gesture | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | mournful | murder | pedal tone | retardation | sad | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Distraught) | 1:25:39 - Leslie cries | augmented sixth chord | climax | crying | dramatic | emotional | foreign key modulation | home | leading lady | oscillation | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Native (Climactic) | 1:30:42 - Leslie walks through her garden | climax | crying | Dorian mode | 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 | pc set | Phrygian mode | plantation | somber | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (The Moon) | 1:31:36 - Leslie sees the moon go behind a cloud | climax | cloud | crying | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | looking | moon | oscillation | pc set | plantation | sequence |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Anger | 0:33:15 - String gets angry | actor | anger | arguing | brother | conflict | crying | dramatic | leading lady | oscillation | priest | rancher | room | tense | tone cluster | whole-tone chord | yelling |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Father Paul | 0:33:25 - Liza comforts String | actor | anger | brother | comforting | conflict | crying | dark | leading lady | priest | rancher | room | somber | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Emotion | 1:05:10 - Shelly cries | actor | comforting | conversing | crying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | ranch | somber | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Nightmare) | 1:05:38 - Trev tells Shelly of a recurring dream | actor | comforting | conversing | crying | dark | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | ranch | solemn | suspect | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Tenderly) | 1:06:09 - Trev kisses Shelly | actor | crying | embracing | gentle | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | marriage | proposal | ranch | romantic | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Molto Misterioso) | 1:18:21 - Shelly panics | actor | concerned | crying | hearing voices | leading lady | mad scene | panicking | room | violence | worried | worrying |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Mournful (Scared) | 1:18:45 - Shelly is afraid of Trev | actor | crying | fear | husband | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | room | somber | suspect | worrying |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Afraid | 1:19:02 - Shelly leaves Trev in fear | actor | crying | dramatic | escaping | fanfare | fear | husband | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | room | self-borrowing | stinger | suspect | worrying |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Frantic) | NIF - not in film | actor | conflict | crying | cut from film | dark | frantic | leading lady | murderer | rancher | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert (Triste) | 0:24:26 - Bert and Mildred separate | augmented sixth chord | breaking up | crying | establish character | fragmentation | heroine | husband | leading lady | leaving | Neapolitan | pedal tone | room | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Breakdown) | 1:47:11 - Mildred tries to start her car | 9th chord | climax | crying | dramatic | emotional | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | leaving | street |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Returning Home 2) | 1:49:17 - Veda convinces her mother to not report her | antagonist | crying | daughter | heroine | leading lady | loving | mode mixture | mother | murderer | murder scene | reverse picardy | room | sacrificing | tender | warm |
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 |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Resolution) | 1:21:03 - Joan talks about her mother | added-note chord | calm | conversing | crying | daughter | end title sequence | husband | peaceful | prison | redemption | resolution | The End | triumphant |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Stella and George (Tender) | 0:13:24 - George talks to Stella | boyfriend | conversing | crying | departing | dock | establish character | evaded cadence | leading lady | tender | transcribed by ear |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Father and Daughter | 0:33:12 - Jonah talks to Stella | advance plot | conversing | crying | father | gentle | hugging | leading lady | mode mixture | room | tender |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Dead) | 1:13:15 - Stella sees Goff's body | action scene | arguing | corpse | crying | dark | death | fear | leading lady | morgue | ominous | police |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Sentimental) | 1:10:39 - People are sad as the radio plays | AABA 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) | Frohe Botschaft (Crying) | 0:45:45 - Leni kisses Gerald | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | boy | child | crying | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | heroine | home | leaving | mode mixture | mother | quotation | room | sequence | somber | tritone |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Turbulent) | 0:50:14 - Jessica reacts to David's departure | 11th chord | angry | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | classical music | conflict | crying | dark | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | home | husband | leaving | quotation | room | sad | tragic | wife |
White Heat (1949) | Zuckie's Death | 0:12:29 - Cody ignores Zuckie | crying | dark | death | departing | funereal | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moaning | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | pleading | room | somber | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | The Carman's Whistle (Accompaniment) | 0:39:58 - Walter wanders the grounds | advance plot | crying | garden | gentle | leading lady | leading man | listening | walking | wandering |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann 2 | 0:40:33 - Walter talks to the woman in white | advance plot | conversing | crying | garden | gentle | leading lady | leading man | remembering | tender |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Misterioso) | 1:21:57 - Marian talks to Walter | cemetery | cousin | crying | funeral | funeral | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | somber | spying |
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 |
Sing and Like It (1934) | Your Mother | 0:10:15 - Annie sings on stage | AABA structure | ballad | boss | crying | gangster | leading lady | listening | musician | music scene | on-screen music | piano | robbery | score to source | sentimental | singer | singing | source music | stage | stealing |
Sing and Like It (1934) | Your Mother | 0:13:55 - Annie sings on stage | AABA structure | ballad | boss | crying | gangster | leading lady | listening | musician | music scene | on-screen music | piano | sentimental | singer | singing | source music | stage |
Sing and Like It (1934) | Your Mother | 1:04:54 - A man conducts the pit orchestra | AABA structure | ballad | boss | conducting | conductor | critic | crowd | crying | dancing | gangster | gun | leading lady | moll | musical | musician | music scene | on-screen music | performer | performing | playing | sentimental | singer | singing | source music | theater | threatening | watching |
Without Honor (1949) | Triste | 0:07:37 - Dennis tells Jane their relationship is over | adulterer | affair | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Agitato) | 0:07:57 - Jane tells Dennis she still loves him | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | passionate | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato (Broad) | 0:08:11 - Jane cries | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | passionate | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Desperation | 0:08:20 - Jane talks to Dennis | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato (Molto Expressivo) | 0:08:35 - Jane cries | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | passionate | somber |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Agitato) | 0:08:54 - Jane talks to Dennis | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Agitated) | 0:09:10 - Jane threatens to kill herself | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | dark | death scene | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suicide | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:14:37 - Jane stares at herself in the mirror | advance plot | audible thoughts | blaming | crying | leading lady | mirror | room | tense | thinking | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Agitation (Appassionato) | 0:52:28 - Jane cries | agitated | antagonist | brother | climax | confessing | confession | crying | demanding | husband | leading lady | leading man | room | tense | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Confession | 0:52:54 - Jane confesses | agitated | antagonist | brother | climax | confessing | confession | crying | husband | leading lady | leading man | room | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 | 0:53:24 - Jane laughs | antagonist | brother | climax | confession | crying | husband | laughing | leading lady | leading man | passionate | room | wife |
Caged (1950) | Water Dripping (Molto Expressivo) | 1:18:15 - Marie in solitary | 9th chord | crying | dissonant bass | dripping | hysteria | isolation | leading lady | mad scene | mickey-mousing | mickey-mousing | minor-major 7th chord | mysterious | prison | prisoner | tense | uneasy | water | water effect | wipe | yelling |
Caged (1950) | He Leadeth Me | 1:27:53 - Women in prison | advance plot | calm | conversing | crying | hymn | leading lady | prison | prisoner | singing | source music |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Somber) | 0:47:16 - Manuelo hold Perol in his arms | conversing | crying | death scene | dock | dying | leading man | pain | somber | struggling | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Manuelo (Molto Expressivo) | 0:47:44 - Perol talks to Gregory | conversing | crying | death scene | dock | dying | expressive | leading man | pain | struggling | tender | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Manuelo (Perol Dies) | 0:48:12 - Perol speaks his last words | angelic | conversing | crying | dark | death | death scene | dock | dying | expressive | leading man | pain | stinger | struggling | tender | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Manuelo (Molto Appassionato) | 0:48:42 - Manuelo mourns for his brother | cross | crying | dark | death | death scene | dock | embracing | evidence | leading man | mourning | somber | stinger | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Adoramus te Christe | 0:49:05 - A cross and some candles | brother | church | conversing | cross | crowd | crying | embracing | evidence | funeral scene | leading man | mother | mourner | mourning | police | praying | priest | private eye | somber | source music | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Cross (Cello Solo) | 1:36:55 - Manuelo mourns Ortega's death | catacomb | cave | corpse | cross | crying | death | hymn-like | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | martyr | reacting | resolution | solemn | somber | thinking | tunnel | victim | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | The End | 1:37:33 - Gregory gives the cross to Manuelo | catacomb | cave | corpse | cross | crying | death | deciding | departing | end title sequence | fade-out | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | map | martyr | reacting | redmption | religious | religious | resolution | The End | thinking | triumphant | tunnel | victim | worker |