| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Valse | 1:03:32 - Montage of newspaper clippings | added-note chord | ballroom | cheerful | crowd | dancing | double exposure | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | montage | upbeat | waltz |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Invitation from the King | 1:03:46 - Invitation from the King | 11th chord | ballroom | bold | double exposure | duchess | duke | fanfare | leading lady | leading man | montage | pedal tone | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Ascending | 1:03:57 - The Duke and Duchess ascend | ascending | ballroom | chromatic sequence | double exposure | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | stairs | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:42:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | on-screen text | romantic | sequential modulation | street |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Mysterioso) | 1:42:50 - An apartment building | double exposure | half-diminished 7th chord | letter | montage | room | somber | writing |
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) | Henriette (Molto Moderato) | 2:04:10 - Women in prison | double exposure | headline | leading lady | montage | newspaper | oscillation | pacing | prison | prisoner | solemn | suspect | walking |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Roulette | 0:07:01 - Roulette wheel spins | club | double exposure | establish character | frantic | gambling | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | parallelism | pedal tone | sequence | spinning |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Night Club Music | 0:07:05 - Rocky gambles in a nightclub | altered dominant | club | dancing | double exposure | drinking | establish character | frantic | gambling | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | pouring |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Marcia Maestoso) | 0:08:58 - Eddie dreams | applauding | common-chord modulation | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | fragmentation | leading man | meter change | montage | reciting | thematic transformation | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Comical) | 0:09:17 - Eddie's dream ends abruptly | comical | double exposure | dream sequence | explosion | laughing | leading man | montage | student | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:20:51 - Eddie dreams | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | eating | fragmentation | frantic | half-diminished 7th chord | humming | leading man | room | scored source music | sequence | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Moonbeams (Dream Sequence) | 0:27:23 - Eddie takes Flo home | added-note chord | advance plot | double exposure | dream sequence | entering | friend | hectic | kissing | leading man | mode mixture | romantic | source to score | street | transcribed by ear | waltz |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Dream Sequence) | 0:27:44 - Time passes | double exposure | dream sequence | fragmentation | hectic | montage | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Dream Sequence 2) | 0:27:51 - Time passes | double exposure | dream sequence | hectic | montage | pedal tone | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Montage) | 0:29:57 - Eddie drinks | angry | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | drinking | fragmentation | gun | hectic | leading man | montage | pedal tone | room | sequence |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Listesso Tempo) | 0:30:13 - Eddie commits a crime | angry | chromatic scale | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | fragmentation | hectic | leading man | montage | room |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Moonbeams (Flashback) | 0:30:18 - Eddie dances with Flo | dance hall | dancing | double exposure | dream sequence | flashback | hectic | leading man | love interest | montage | room | waltz |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:30:25 - Eddie attacks boy | arguing | clock | dark | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | dream sequence | fighting | kissing | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | ominous | pedal tone | stinger | ticking |
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 (Risoluto) | 0:48:55 - Newspaper headlines | double exposure | fragmentation | headline | montage | mysterious | newspaper | sequential modulation | spinning | tense | thematic transformation |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto 2) | 0:53:55 - Newspaper headlines | advance plot | arresting | dark | detective | double exposure | fragmentation | friend | headline | leading man | love interest | murderer | newspaper | ominous | room | sequential modulation | spinning | thematic transformation | underscoring |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Minor) + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Minor) | 1:15:51 - Newspaper headlines | combination of themes | conversing | double exposure | headline | minor-major 7th chord | montage | newspaper | police | preaching | priest | source to score | spinning | tense |
| Caged (1950) | Prison Alarm | 0:32:00 - Ringing prison alarm | agitated | alarm | alarm effect | bell | double exposure | dramatic | guard | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | waking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale | yelling |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Expressivo) | 0:32:12 - The prison laundry | alarm | augmented sixth chord | augmented triad | bell | double exposure | dramatic | guard | leading lady | metric displacement | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | roll call | working |
Caged (1950) | Prison Alarm | 0:32:22 - Ringing prison alarm | agitated | alarm | alarm effect | bell | double exposure | dramatic | eating | guard | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | waking | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:30 - Marie in the prison cafeteria | alarm | alarm effect | bell | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | eating | fanning | guard | heat | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pc set | prison | prisoner | underscoring | whole-tone scale |
Caged (1950) | Prison | 0:32:40 - Marie working in the prison laundry | 9th chord | double exposure | dramatic | leading lady | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | suspension | working |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:47 - Marie working in the prison laundry | alarm | alarm effect | augmented sixth chord | bell | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | quick cuts | underscoring | working |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Dark) | 0:32:55 - Marie's medical report | augmented sixth chord | dark | double exposure | infirmary | leading lady | medical report | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | working |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Snake) | 0:02:35 - A montage of New York City scenes | 13th 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) | The Words Are in My Heart | 0:29:31 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | augmented triad | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | gentle | leading lady | montage | source music | waltz |
City for Conquest (1940) | Original Rhumba | 0:29:38 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | rhumba | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Original Bolero | 0:29:43 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | bolero | chromatic mediant | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Jalousie | 0:29:51 - Peggy dances with Murray | added-note chord | applause | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | source music | tango | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Original Foxtrot | 0:29:57 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | common-tone diminished 7th | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | foxtrot | leading lady | montage | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Galop | 0:31:21 - Montage at an amusement park | amusement park | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | double exposure | excited | linear chromaticism | montage | neon light |
City for Conquest (1940) | I'm Just Wild About Harry | 0:34:32 - Man operating a spotlight | audience | clapping | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | marquee | montage | source music | stage | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A + Sidewalks of New York | 0:38:31 - Traveling montage | combination of themes | double exposure | gentle | montage | train | transcribed by ear | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Knock Out) | 0:38:33 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing | boxing ring | common-chord modulation | double exposure | falling | march | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | 42nd Street | 0:38:40 - Montage of dancing scenes | bold | dancing | double exposure | montage | shadow | stage |
City for Conquest (1940) | Boxing Poster | 0:38:48 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing | boxing ring | chromatic sequence | double exposure | fanfare | montage | poster | self-borrowing | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shadow Waltz (Dancing) | 0:38:57 - Montage of dancing scenes | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented triad | dancing | double exposure | gentle | montage | shadow | stage | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Main Event) | 0:39:01 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing ring | double exposure | linear chromaticism | montage | poster | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Burns and Company | 0:39:06 - Montage of dancing scenes | added-note chord | dance band | dancing | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | shadow | stage | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Resolution) | 0:39:10 - Montage of boxing scenes | 9th chord | added-note chord | boxing ring | chromatic mediant | double exposure | foreign key modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | resolution | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Introduction | 1:32:01 - Orchestra playing in a concert hall | 9th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | double exposure | Dutch angle | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | score to source | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Introduction (Abbreviated) | 1:34:01 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | double exposure | Dutch angle | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Grandioso) | 1:36:11 - Audience enjoying the performance | 9th chord | 13th chord | altered dominant | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | double exposure | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | leading man | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | romantic | sentimental | smiling | source music | 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 |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Traveling | 0:22:25 - Johnnie becomes a fugitive | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | countryside | double exposure | dramatic | leading man | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | purchasing | street | traveling | walking |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato (Maestoso) | 1:20:16 - News of Mario's death | brash | dark | death | double exposure | montage | montage | murder | suicide | typewriter | typing |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Night Clubs | 0:01:12 - Montage of night clubs | bar | bluesy | club | crowd | dancer | dancing | double exposure | eating | journalist | montage | montage | performer | performing | simulated source music | street | voice-over |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 1:04:46 - Montage of policemen | action scene | double exposure | dramatic | montage | police | searching | street | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Headline | 1:04:52 - Newspaper headline | action scene | double exposure | dramatic | headline | newspaper |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family | 0:25:26 - Matt looks at a photo album | advance plot | baby | common-tone modulation | deceptive resolution | double exposure | flashback | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading man | letter | looking | love | memory | mode mixture | photograph | room | self-borrowing | sentimental | smiling | son | tender | thinking | undercover agent | voice-over | writing |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family (Molto Expressivo) | 0:26:15 - Matt writes a letter to his son | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | baby | deceptive resolution | double exposure | flashback | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading man | letter | looking | love | memory | photograph | room | self-borrowing | sentimental | smiling | son | tender | thinking | undercover agent | voice-over | writing |
| The Informer (1935) | Here Comes the Bride | 0:49:55 - Dream sequence of a voyage to America | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | boat | double exposure | dreaming | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | romantic | ship | street | vision | wedding |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling) + Shelly 2 | 0:10:13 - Shelly drives through the desert | actor | bright | car | cheerful | combination of themes | desert | double exposure | driving | foreign key modulation | leading lady | map | montage | motor effect | ostinato | sequential modulation | traveling | traveling scene | wheel | zoom in |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Flashback starts | 0:20:16 - Flashback to the past | double exposure | establish character | flashback | gentle | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | street |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Singing Lesson) | 0:37:17 - Veda sings | added-note chord | child | double exposure | heroine | leading lady | montage | on-screen music | room | scored source music | self-borrowing | singing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Ballet Lesson | 0:37:25 - Kay dances | 9th chord | 11th chord | ballet | child | dancing | double exposure | graceful | heroine | leading lady | montage | pleasant | room | voice-over |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Flashback starts 2 | 1:07:59 - Flashback to the past | advance plot | double exposure | flashback | mickey-mousing |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Rushing train | 1:24:15 - A rushing train | double exposure | excited | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | train | train | transition | traveling |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby + Here Comes the Bride | 1:10:07 - Vergie imagines the wedding | added-note chord | bride | calm | chromatic mediant | combination of themes | common-chord modulation | daughter | double exposure | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | peaceful | secret lover | ternary form | transcribed by ear | walking | wedding | wedding | wedding music |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Speeding Car | 1:12:30 - A car racing down the street | action scene | car | double exposure | dramatic | driving | leading lady | point-of-view shot | police | rushed | rushing | street | tense |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Speeding Car (Extended) | 1:13:32 - A car racing down the street | action scene | car | crowd | double exposure | dramatic | driving | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | point-of-view shot | police | questioning | reporter | rushed | rushing | street | tense |
| Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Dixieland) | 0:34:27 - Music is played in a night club | banjo | countermelody | dancing | Dixieland | double exposure | drums | improvisation | jazz | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
| White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 (Montage) | 1:38:26 - Tanker drives down the street | car | car | chase scene | dark | double exposure | electronic effect | fugitive | gangster | leading man | montage | murderer | pursuing | radio effect | speeding | street | truck | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit (Montage) | 1:38:33 - Police car in pursuit | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | combination of themes | double exposure | electronic effect | montage | mysterious | police station | pursuing | radio | radio effect | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 | 1:39:10 - Tanker drives down the street | car | chase scene | dark | double exposure | driving | fugitive | gangster | leading man | montage | murderer | radio | speeding | street | truck | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Pursuit (Frantic) | 1:39:12 - Police car in pursuit | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | double exposure | montage | police station | pursuing | radio | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:39:16 - Agent at the control board | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | double exposure | dramatic | mapping | montage | police station | pursuing | radio | speeding | street | underscoring |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Whirlpool | 0:00:20 - Penguin in a whirlpool | chromatic scale | double exposure | hectic | opening title sequence | penguin | pool | transcribed by ear | whirling | whirlpool |
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 |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Hazel murders husband | 0:12:36 - Hazel murders her husband | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | husband | knife | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | newspaper | room | stabbing | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Dramatic Agitato | 0:12:41 - Hazel screams | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | letter | murder | murderer | murder scene | newspaper | room | screaming | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
| Before Dawn (1933) | Before Dawn A | 0:00:15 - Title over the image of hands grasping money | coin | dark | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | grabbing | hand | money | mysterious | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Before Dawn (1933) | Before Dawn B | 0:00:32 - Title and Cast list over a skull | cast list | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | mysterious | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | sequence | skull | transcribed by ear |
Before Dawn (1933) | Before Dawn C | 0:00:44 - Cast list over walking feet | cast list | double exposure | Lydian mode | mysterious | opening title sequence | parallelism | self-borrowing | transcribed by ear | walking |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Gimpy Walk | 0:26:34 - Bob walks | added-note chord | advance plot | calm | double exposure | gangster | imposter | leading man | oscillation | pacing | room | waiting | walking |
| Mara Maru (1952) | The Storm | 1:11:04 - A wild storm at sea | advance plot | double exposure | dramatic | ocean | rain | raining | ship | storm | waves | wind |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underwater (Fish) | 1:13:56 - Gregory moves toward the sunken boat | action scene | captain | close-up | diver | diving | diving suit | double exposure | exploring | fish | leading man | mysterious | ocean | ship | swimming | underwater | walking | water effect |
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