| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Poison | 1:08:46 - Rocks feels the effect of the poison | blur | chromatic parallelism | diminution | doctor | dreaming | drugs | ethereal | gangster | layering | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | office | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | poison | poisoning | polychord | stinger | tone cluster |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:49 - Jerry talks to newspaper editor | conversing | diminution | leading man | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office | parallelism | priest | sign | tense |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Funeral March | 0:55:21 - Teddy carries the body down the stairs | advance plot | brother | carrying | chromatic scale | corpse | crazy person | darkness | diminution | dirge | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | funeral march | linear chromaticism | ominous | ostinato | room | tritone | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Knives | 1:31:05 - Mortimer looks at the knives | acceleration | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | close-up | conflict | crazy person | diminution | doctor | fear | layering | leading man | murderer | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | polychord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | victim |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Suspenseful) | 1:35:47 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | dark | diminution | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | shop | suspenseful |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:41:36 - Marlowe runs to his car | 9th chord | action scene | criminal | diminution | dramatic | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love interest | outside | private eye | running | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 3 | NIF - not in film | acceleration | bold | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert scene | cut from film | diminution | dominant 7th chord | exciting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | polyrhythm |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Coda) | 1:37:16 - The conductor leading the orchestra | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic mediant | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | diminution | dramatic | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Alternate Ending 2 | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | alternate music | chromatic mediant | diminution |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Running Away) | 0:25:55 - Joe and Mabel run | 64 chord | barn | conflict | diminution | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | running | sequence |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (She Runs) | 0:07:32 - Stanley runs inside | arriving | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | diminution | establish character | hurried | leading lady | mickey-mousing | room | running | sequence | street |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (She Runs) | 0:32:24 - Stanley talks to Peter | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conversing | diminution | leading lady | leading man | playful | sequence | wedding | wedding |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Fleeing) | 1:33:12 - The police chase after Stanley | 64 chord | chase scene | chasing | chromatic mediant | climax | criminal | desperate | diminution | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | ostinato | police | sequential modulation | street | tense |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Boxing poster | 0:00:41 - Boxing poster | 64 chord | augmentation | chromatic sequence | diminution | establish character | jaunty | poster | street | zoom in |
| 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 |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Sneaky) | 0:51:52 - David goes to bed | added-note chord | advance plot | antagonist | classical music | cook | diminution | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | heroine | home | mickey-mousing | mysterious | quotation | room | sneaking | somber |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Penguin Pool Murder | 0:00:23 - Main title, starring list, and cast list | cast list | chromatic parallelism | diminution | diving | double exposure | dramatic | hemiola | linear chromaticism | mysterious | opening title sequence | penguin | pool | starring list | swimming | tense | thematic transformation | through-composed | title of film | transcribed by ear | whirlpool | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
| State’s Attorney (1932) | Blues (Double Time) | 0:01:04 - Cast list | blue note | blues | bluesy | cast list | diminution | exciting | Gershwinesque | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
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