Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Marriage License Bureau) | 0:01:59 - "Marriage License Bureau" sign | 64 chord | arriving | calm | conversing | crowd | direct modulation | establish character | familiar tune | marriage | office | parallelism | reporter | romantic | sequence | spouse |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (String Quartet) | 0:39:28 - The aunts set the table | advance plot | aunt | cleaning | conversing | crazy person | direct modulation | evaded cadence | familiar tune | hymn-like | leading lady | murderer | peaceful | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Tranquillo) | 0:43:40 - Jonathan sits down | augmented triad | aunt | brother | calm | chromatic parallelism | conversing | crazy person | criminal | direct modulation | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | room |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 2 (Allargando) | 1:35:58 - Orchestra playing in the concert hall | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | direct modulation | dramatic | Gershwinesque | grand | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | pedal tone | playing | source music | watching |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Tenderly) | 1:07:57 - Tommy talks to Johnnie | 9th chord | ABAB structure | altered dominant | arguing | chromatic mediant | conversing | direct modulation | foreign key modulation | hero | leading man | room | tender | turning point |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Lohenblueish) | 1:09:07 - Johnnie decides that he will stay | added-note chord | augmentation | chromatic mediant | direct modulation | foreign key modulation | hero | hopeful | hopeless | leading man | linear chromaticism | passionate | room | thinking | turning point | zoom in |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Yankee Doodle | 0:03:37 - Children playing | 64 chord | cheerful | child | children's song | dancing | direct modulation | establish place | establish setting | flashback | park | playing | wipe |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Watch on the Rhine (Headlines) | 0:28:39 - Montage of newspaper headlines | bold | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | quintal chord |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Rule, Britannia! (Headlines) + La Marseillaise (Headlines) | 0:28:45 - Montage of newspaper headlines | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | pedal tone | polytonality |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Strings) | 0:52:30 - Vergie puts a ribbon in Joan's hair | advance plot | child | chromatic mediant | conversing | countermelody | daughter | direct modulation | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | mother | pedal tone | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Quasi Appassionato) | 0:54:24 - John expresses his love for Vergie | conversing | direct modulation | dissonant bass | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | love scene | outside | passionate | secret love | secret lover |
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) | Lullaby (Agitated) | 1:01:27 - John and Laura argue about Joan | agitated | arguing | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | leading man | octatonic scale | room | tense | transcribed by ear | wife |
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 (Celeste Solo) | 1:02:43 - John paces around | conflict | daughter | direct modulation | hesitating | leading man | love interest | lying | peaceful | room | surprise | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Adagio) | 1:03:02 - Joan reacts | conflict | daughter | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | dissonant bass | leading man | love interest | revealing | room | stinger | surprise | tense | wife |
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 |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender (Celeste Solo) | 0:23:14 - Pete and Sally buying food | advance plot | buying | detective | direct modulation | food | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | peaceful | reporter | store | street | worker | working |
We're Only Human (1935) | Lullaby (Adagio) | 0:23:36 - Pete watches the car drive away | conflict | conversing | detective | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | dissonant bass | food | leading lady | leading man | love interest | reacting | reporter | street | tense |