Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Ominous) | 0:41:03 - Jonathan looks around the house | added-note chord | augmented triad | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading man | observing | ominous | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Expressivo) + Scar | 0:41:42 - Abby talks to Jonathan | altered dominant | augmented triad | aunt | brother | combination of themes | conversing | convincing | crazy person | criminal | distortion | doctor | establish character | expressive | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | ominous | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Ominous) | 0:43:28 - Dr. Einstein talks to the aunts | added-note chord | altered dominant | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | split-fifth chord | tense |
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 |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Escaping) | 1:43:48 - Vivian takes off the handcuffs | action scene | distortion | escaping | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | outside | private eye | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Prison Moods) | 1:08:48 - Boys talk to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dissonant | dissonant bass | distortion | gang | minor second | mysterious | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Sneaky) | 1:13:28 - Frankie sneaks in with his gun | breaking in | conflict | distortion | fragmentation | gun | room | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Trickery) | 0:48:45 - Joe talks to the jailer | distortion | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | jail | jail break | leading man | parallelism | passerby | shopkeeper | tense | warden |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Misterioso) | 1:04:33 - Titus talks to Dan | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | distortion | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | politician | room | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Agitato) | 1:14:37 - Mildred and Monte argue | agitated | arguing | breakup | conflict | distortion | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | love interest | room | tense |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Joan) | 0:50:31 - Joan enters Vergie's shop | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | distortion | entering | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | meeting | mother | octatonic scale | reunion | secret | shop | timid |