| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Air pour La Jeunesse | 0:51:43 - A montage of people applauding | audience | child | classical music | concert scene | dramatic | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | listening | source music | theater | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Arguing) | 1:00:32 - Henriette leaves | arguing | conflict | dramatic | duchess | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | listening | romantic | room | serious | trouble |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:03 - Henriette packs her things | arguing | conflict | dramatic | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | trouble |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Very Emotional) | 1:01:26 - Henrietta talks to the Duke | arguing | conflict | dramatic | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | trouble |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Pleading (Extended) | 1:01:39 - The Duke responds to Henriette | arguing | conflict | dramatic | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | trouble |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Very Emotional) | 1:02:00 - The Duke talks to Henriette | arguing | conflict | dramatic | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | trouble |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:13:19 - Henriette watches the falling snow | advance plot | arriving | butler | dramatic | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | outside | panning shot | point-of-view shot | room | underscoring | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Con Moto) | 1:13:45 - Henriette watches the Duke and Duchess | advance plot | dramatic | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | leaving | painful | point-of-view shot | room | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Agitato 2 | 1:59:31 - Henriette is arrested | agitated | crowd | crying | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | headline | leading lady | leaving | mob | montage | newspaper | soldier | street | suspect | yelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ostinato) | 2:10:09 - A carriage leaves | carriage | crowd | dramatic | leading lady | mob | ominous | ostinato | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 1 | 0:00:15 - Title of film | beaker | bubbling | chromatic scale | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 2 | 0:00:27 - Cast list | 9th chord | beaker | bubbling | cast list | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | ostinato | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Shadow punch | 0:45:00 - Watchman is punched by a shadowy figure | attacking | augmented sixth chord | crime | criminal | dramatic | fighting | gangster | guard | punching | robbery | shadow | store | violence | whole-tone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:47:48 - Rocks opens the safe | breaking in | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | enharmonic modulation | gangster | leading man | lock | opening | robbery | safe | safe-cracking | stinger | store | tense | thief | underscoring | unlocking | vault | wedge |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Double Cross) | 0:48:56 - Rocks thinks of a double-cross | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | plotting | robbery | sinister | store | thief | trapping |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Locked in vault | 0:49:06 - Dr. Clitterhouse locked in safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | panicking | polychord | pounding | robbery | safe | store | tense | thief | trapping | vault | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor | 0:49:21 - Rocks starts the refrigeration motor | antagonist | anxious | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | mickey-mousing | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:49:36 - Dr. Clitterhouse in safe | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | robbery | spinning | store | tense | thief | trapping | whirling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Getting Colder) | 0:49:43 - The vault gets colder | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks goes downstairs | 0:50:05 - Rocks goes down the stairs | antagonist | anxious | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | murderer | robbery | stairs | store | temperature | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:11 - Butch comes back | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | hurrying | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | store | temperature | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Sneaking) + The Motor | 0:50:14 - Rocks sneaks around in the dark | antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | sneaking | store | temperature | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch goes downstairs | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Rocks) + Rocks (The Amazing Doctor) | 0:50:33 - Rocks goes out to the truck | antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | dissonant bass | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | lying | murderer | pc set | robbery | street | tense | thief | tritone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Butch) | 0:50:45 - Butch searches for the doctor | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pedal tone | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs | 0:50:46 - Butch runs to the window | anxious | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | sequence | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs back | 0:50:52 - Butch runs back from the window | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Brass) + The Motor | 0:51:00 - Dr. Clitterhouse in the safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | gangster | knocking | motor | ostinato | panicking | robbery | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Lighting the Torch + The Motor | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief | torch | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch (Burning) | 0:51:12 - Butch opens safe with welder's torch | anxious | burning | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch | 0:51:17 - Torch breaks through the safe door | anxious | burning | criminal | cutting | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | pc set | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Camera panning | 0:51:39 - Camera pans to the watchman | anxious | dramatic | guard | mickey-mousing | panning shot | robbery | store | tense | waking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch + The Motor (Watchman Crawling) | 0:51:41 - Watchman struggles to sound the alarm | alarm | anxious | chromatic scale | crawling | dramatic | guard | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pc set | robbery | store | struggle | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch (Off) + The Motor | 0:52:24 - Butch finishes opening safe | anxious | burning | combination of themes | criminal | cutting | dissonant bass | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | motor | ostinato | pc set | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch | turning off |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Rescue) | 0:52:29 - Dr. Clitterhouse escapes from safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hero | motor | ostinato | rescuing | robbery | store | tense | thief |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Chase | 0:04:21 - Cops chase boys through the train yard | chase scene | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | police | polychord | running | street | teenager | whole-tone chord |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Fingerprints) | 0:06:17 - Montage of juvenile detention and prison life | digging | dramatic | establish character | fingerprints | foreign key modulation | headline | leading man | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | sequence | serious | working |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running and shooting | 0:06:52 - Police chase gangsters and Rocky shoots | agent | augmented triad | chasing | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | dramatic | establish character | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | quartal chord | running | shooting | street | zoom out |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Explosion | 0:07:16 - Building explodes after car drives by | bomb | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | establish character | explosion | gangster | mickey-mousing | montage | polychord | street | throwing |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Stickup | 0:42:30 - Rocky points a gun at Frazier | 64 chord | advance plot | assaulting | dramatic | gangster | garage | grabbing | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Headlines | 1:10:28 - A montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | 42 chord | 64 chord | dramatic | foreign key modulation | headline | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | newspaper editor | newspaper office | spinning | zooming |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:16:29 - Rocky shoots Mac and Frazier | agitated | attacking | casino | chaos | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | crowd | death | dissonant bass | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | fighting | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | jumping | landing | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | rooftop | room | running | sequence | shooting | sneaking | sneaky | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Mac gets shot | 1:16:35 - Mac gets shot and dies | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | room | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Frazier gets shot | 1:16:56 - Frazier gets shot and dies | agitated | casino | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going down a ladder | 1:17:32 - Rocky goes down an escape ladder | agitated | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | descending | down | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hurrying | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up a ladder | 1:17:41 - Rocky climbs up an escape ladder | agitated | ascending | chromatic parallelism | climbing | conflict | dramatic | gangster | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | sequence | street | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running on wall | 1:17:55 - Rocky runs on wall | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | rooftop | running | sequence |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:00 - Rocky is trapped in a building | 42 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | fleeing | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | major 7th chord | police | running | sequence | stairwell | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going down stairs | 1:19:05 - Rocky runs down the stairs | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | down | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | stairs | stairwell |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up stairs | 1:19:27 - Rocky runs up the stairs | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | running | sequence | stairs | stairwell | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas | 1:19:48 - Tear gas spreads throughout the room | agitated | breaking | breaking | breathing | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | quartal chord | running | shooting | smoke | street | tear gas | throwing | window |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Machine Gun | 1:20:24 - Policeman shoots at Rocky with machine gun | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | death | dramatic | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | police | polychord | shooting | street | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:20:39 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window | agitated | appoggiatura | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Launching tear gas | 1:20:51 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window | agitated | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | launching | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tear gas | tone cluster |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry + Tear Gas | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | quartal chord | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas (Desperate) | 1:21:40 - Rocky tries to hold off the cops | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | priest | quartal chord | shooting | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:23:10 - Jerry and Rocky confront one another | 42 chord | agitated | arguing | building | conflict | dramatic | entering | gangster | leading man | priest | underscoring | wedge | yelling |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:20 - Rocky throws his gun | capturing | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | leading man | police | sequence | street | throwing | 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 (Transition 13) + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Transition 13) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | added-note chord | chromatic sequence | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | dramatic | plagal cadence | somber |
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 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Chromatic) | 0:00:21 - Cast list | 64 chord | cast list | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | dramatic | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | opening title sequence |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Marcato) | 0:00:54 - Cast list | appoggiatura | cast list | dramatic | opening title sequence | sequence |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Chromatic Fall | 0:00:58 - Max Steiner's name | 42 chord | cast list | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | opening title sequence | pedal tone |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Punching and falling | 0:01:38 - A fight starts on the field | baseball player | dramatic | falling | field | mickey-mousing | punching | sporting event | umpire |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Stinger | 0:52:41 - Jonathan suddenly appears at the window | advance plot | aunt | brother | crazy person | dramatic | harsh | leading lady | leading man | murderer | opening | room | stinger | surprise | whole-tone chord | window |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Molto Agitato | 1:29:57 - Jonathan ties Mortimer to a chair | 9th chord | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | conflict | crazy person | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | gagging | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | stinger | tying | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Panic | 1:31:48 - Einstein agrees to do the torture | alcohol | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | oscillation | panicked | panicking | polychord | room | sequence | split-third chord | tense | torturing | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Fast) | 1:32:11 - Einstein finds some wine | alcohol | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | hurrying | leading man | murderer | panicking | polychord | room | tense | torturing | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Bugle Call | 1:32:56 - Teddy plays the bugle | brother | bugle | bugle call | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | on-screen music | playing | room | source music | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Bugle Call | 1:49:14 - Mortimer blows the bugle | bugle | bugle call | climax | dramatic | leading man | on-screen music | playing | room | source music |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa | 0:00:00 - WB shield | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Transition | 0:00:06 - Starring cast list | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | starring list |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Meno) | 0:00:25 - Cast list | cast list | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Maestoso) | 0:00:45 - Director of the film | cast list | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa | 0:00:54 - Title card | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | title card |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Transition | 0:01:01 - Title card | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | title card |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Meno) | 0:01:19 - Scrolling text | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | title card |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Maestoso) | 0:01:39 - Title card | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | title card |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Falling down | 0:14:27 - Moose falls on a bed | advance plot | cabin | collapsing | dramatic | falling | friend | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pushing | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Misterioso) | 0:38:47 - Rosa lights a match | advance plot | contemplating | dramatic | familiar tune | jealousy | leading lady | obsession | obsessive | passage of time | popular tune | room | smoking | tense | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:08:24 - Moose warns Rosa | anger | dramatic | friend | harsh | leading lady | observing | room | stinger | turning point | underscoring | warning | warning |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:08:36 - Rosa hits the table | anger | angry | contemplating | dramatic | harsh | hitting | leading lady | pounding | reacting | room | turning point | underscoring |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Heavy) | 1:12:58 - Rosa and Lewis drive away | arriving | departing | dramatic | funeral | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | somber | transition | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Lewis (Crescendo) | 1:13:15 - Rosa and Lewis at home | arriving | calm | conversing | dark | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | transition | victim | yelling |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Broadly) | 1:19:57 - Rosa rolls down a hill | action scene | canyon | dark | dramatic | falling | jumping | leading lady | leading man | murderer | runaway | tense |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa | 1:32:10 - Lewis arrives | arriving | checking | climax | dark | death | doctor | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | murderer | reacting | tender | train | train station |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:21:04 - Marlowe runs to the house | action scene | antagonist | dramatic | hurrying | leading man | private eye | running | street | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running down | 0:21:13 - Feet running down the stairs | action scene | antagonist | descending | dramatic | hurrying | mickey-mousing | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Investigating) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | dramatic | investigating | investigation | leading man | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | dramatic | investigating | investigation | leading man | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:24:57 - Dead body on the floor | corpse | death | dramatic | femme fatale | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | room | searching | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:52:02 - Marlowe pushes Agnes and Joe trips Carmen | blackmailer | conflict | criminal | dramatic | falling | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tripping | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running out | 0:56:36 - Marlowe runs after the killer | assassin | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe (Action) | 0:56:39 - Marlowe chases the killer down the stairs | assassin | chase scene | chasing | descending | dramatic | gun | gunshot | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:54 - Killer shoots at Marlowe | assassin | chase scene | chasing | dramatic | leading man | murderer | private eye | running | shooting | street | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Action) | 0:57:01 - Marlowe runs to his car | assassin | chase scene | chasing | dramatic | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Dramatic) | 1:33:37 - Marlowe looks at sign | car | dramatic | investigating | leading man | private eye | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Gets Hit) | 1:36:20 - The thug punches Marlowe | conflict | criminal | danger | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | private eye | punching | shop |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:41:36 - Marlowe runs to his car | action scene | criminal | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | running | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:43:17 - Canino shoots | action scene | criminal | dramatic | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | shooting | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Rises) | 1:43:19 - Marlowe rises | action scene | criminal | dramatic | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | rising |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Canino's Death | 1:43:22 - Canino is shot | action scene | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | stumbling | tense |
| Caged (1950) | Marie (Montage) | 0:32:12 - Montage of Marie in prison | dramatic | heroine | montage | prison |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Dark) | 0:32:55 - Close up on medical report and Marie in infirmary | dramatic | heroine | montage | prison |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:40 - Kitty swears revenge on Evelyn | dramatic | prison | shadow | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:37 - Marie throws away her wedding ring | dramatic | prison | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:34:42 - Marie walks towards the prison exit | dramatic | prison | underscoring |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Drum Roll | 0:52:51 - Peggy and Danny at the dance | advance plot | announcer | announcing | club | crowd | dance band | dramatic | on-screen music | source music |
City for Conquest (1940) | Drum Roll | 0:53:08 - People applaud for Danny | advance plot | announcer | announcing | club | crowd | dance band | dramatic | on-screen music | source music |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shooting and dying | 1:14:23 - Googi shoots Dutch | car | car | criminal | dramatic | dying | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | shooting | stinger | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 1:32:32 - Violins playing | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | audience | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | romantic | sentimental | sequence | source music | watching | zoom in |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Tutti) | 1:33:02 - Peggy watches from the audience | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dramatic | fragmentation | Gershwinesque | leading lady | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | point-of-view shot | romantic | source music | watching | zoom in |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 2 | 1:33:48 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | added-note chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dramatic | Gershwinesque | grand | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 1:34:24 - Peggy reacts to the music | 9th chord | 13th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | leading man | listening | musician | newspaper | newspaper stand | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | romantic | source music | street | watching | zoom out |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 1 (Abbreviated) | 1:35:34 - Harp playing in the orchestra | added-note chord | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dramatic | Gershwinesque | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | source music |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| Crime School (1938) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Starring and cast list | 9th chord | cast list | dissonant bass | dominant pedal | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | tense | title of film |
Crime School (1938) | Attacking | 0:08:27 - Spike attacks the junk shop owner | attacking | conflict | death | dramatic | fighting | gang | mickey-mousing | polychord | shop | shopkeeper | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Running away | 0:09:32 - Kids run away from cops | 42 chord | chasing | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | fleeing | gang | mickey-mousing | police | running | street | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:09:40 - Spike is captured by the cops | 9th chord | arresting | capturing | conflict | dramatic | police | street | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:01 - Frankie escapes from the warden's office | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | mickey-mousing | ostinato | reformatory | running | teenager | tense | throwing | tone cluster | warden | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Escaping | 0:28:32 - Frankie runs and hides | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Searchlights (Sneaking) | 0:28:47 - Frankies hides from the searchlight | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | jumping | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | searchlight | sneaking | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Risoluto) | 0:29:03 - Warden looks for Frankie | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | looking | reformatory | searching | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:29:09 - Frankie hides then runs | barbed wire fence | battle call | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | escaping | gang | hiding | jumping | mickey-mousing | reformatory | running | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Barbed Wire) | 0:29:18 - Frankie gets caught on barbed wire | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | pain | pc set | reformatory | struggling | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (The Guards) | 0:29:34 - Warden's guards run to catch Frankie | 64 chord | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | capturing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dragging | dramatic | escape | falling | pc set | police | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Dragging | 0:29:51 - Warden's guards drag Frankie through the rain | accented dissonance | anguished | capturing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | kicking | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | splashing | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Capture) | 0:29:58 - Frankie is caught and dragged to the warden | dragging | dramatic | escape | police | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:30:08 - Guards take Frankie inside | begging | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | The Whip | 0:30:15 - The warden uses his whip | begging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden | whip | whipping |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Office) | 0:51:05 - The guard enters to talk to Mark | comedy | dramatic | hero | leading man | marching | police | reformatory | walking |
Crime School (1938) | Kids running down | 0:56:17 - Kids run down stairs | action scene | chromatic parallelism | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | polychord | quartal chord | reformatory | running | stairs | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Whistle | 0:56:27 - Close up of whistle | action scene | alarm | blowing | dramatic | mickey-mousing | reformatory | sounding | tone cluster | whistle |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:50 - Mark goes to rescue Squirt | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | leading man | linear chromaticism | reformatory | rushing | saving | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Going down | 0:57:05 - Mark descends into the boiler room | action scene | descending | dramatic | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | stairs | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising 2 | 0:57:12 - The temperature gauge rises | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | danger | dramatic | gauge | heat | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:55 - Frankie hits Spike | advance plot | anger | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:11:24 - Boys plot their escape | 9th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | escape | gang | plotting | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring list | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | pedal tone | starring list | tense | title of film |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:16:01 - Johnnie rushes inside | advance plot | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | minor-major 7th chord | newspaper | room | rushing | underscoring |
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 |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Train | 0:22:47 - A rushing train and a map | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | motoric | polychord | train | train | traveling | whistle |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Traveling) | 0:22:51 - Johnnie's plodding feet | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | countryside | desert | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading man | linear chromaticism | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | traveling | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Jumps off train | 0:24:21 - Johnnie jumps off the moving train | advance plot | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | jumping | leading man | mickey-mousing | train | train |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:48 - Peggy rushes to help Johnnie | 64 chord | dramatic | establish character | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | ranch | running | rushing | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:30:01 - Johnnie sneaks away | 64 chord | conflict | dramatic | leading man | mysterious | ranch | sneaking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:17 - Johnnie sees his picture in the paper | angry | arguing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | fighting | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | photograph | ranch | teenager | tense | turning point | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:05:52 - Johnny talks to Peggy | conflict | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | lying | room | tense | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Heartbreak) | 1:06:05 - Johnny talks to Peggy | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | room | slamming | somber | tense |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Where Is Zina? | 0:09:20 - Zina enters and we learn that she has married Clementi's brother | dramatic | flashback |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:13:07 - Gerry sees police at the door / transition to police station | dramatic | flashback | underscoring |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Turns, Hits, and Falls | 0:22:28 - Barry hits the guard | boss | conflict | convict | dramatic | falling | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | stinger | street | turning | violence |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry | 0:22:35 - Barry threatens the guard | angry | arguing | boss | conflict | convict | dramatic | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | street | threatening | yelling |
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) | Slap | 0:32:20 - Cliff slaps Libby | conflict | dramatic | father | leading lady | lightning | mickey-mousing | room | slapping | storm | thunder | violence |
Deep Valley (1947) | Earthquake | 0:32:21 - An earthquake shakes the house | conflict | dramatic | earthquake | father | leading lady | lightning | mother | room | rushing | shaking | storm | thunder |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:02:02 - Libby in her room | advance plot | arriving | dramatic | father | leading lady | police | room | searching | street | tense | underscoring | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:48 - Barry reacts to gunshots | action scene | cabin | convict | dramatic | forest | fugitive | gunfight | hiding | leading man | loading | love interest | manhunt | police | shooting | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law | 1:07:20 - Barry tries to escape | action scene | cabin | convict | dramatic | fugitive | hiding | leading man | love interest | manhunt | police | retreating | shooting | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry | 1:07:25 - Barry climbs out of a hole | action scene | cabin | climbing | convict | dramatic | escaping | fugitive | leading man | love interest | manhunt | police | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Jumping down | 1:07:32 - Barry jumps off the roof | action scene | cabin | convict | dramatic | fugitive | jumping | leading man | love interest | manhunt | mickey-mousing | police | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law | 1:07:34 - Lawmen pursue after Barry | action scene | chasing | convict | dramatic | escaping | fanfare | forest | fugitive | leading man | love interest | manhunt | police | running | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:17:55 - Barry hears a noise | advance plot | barn | convict | dramatic | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | sneaking | stinger | tense | walking |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:23:43 - Barry hears a noise | advance plot | barn | convict | dramatic | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | rushing | tense | worrying |
Deep Valley (1947) | Rushing away | 1:36:01 - Libby rushes out of the barn | barn | climax | convict | descending | dramatic | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mother | rushing | rushing effect | tense |
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) | Car Crash | 1:37:49 - Barry's car runs off the road | car | climax | convict | crashing | dramatic | driving | falling | fleeing | fugitive | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | street | swerving |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:37:57 - Jeff gets up and looks around | car | climax | climbing | convict | dramatic | fleeing | fugitive | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | police | searching | street | transcribed by ear | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Fleeing | 1:38:08 - Barry makes a run for it | chasing | climax | convict | dramatic | fleeing | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | police | running | shooting | transcribed by ear |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Not in Score) | 1:38:32 - The posse chases after Barry | chasing | climax | convict | dramatic | fleeing | forest | fugitive | leading man | love interest | police | running | shooting | tense | transcribed by ear |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:38:41 - Barry is shot | climax | convict | dramatic | falling | forest | fugitive | injury | leading man | love interest | police | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law | 1:38:44 - The posse chases after Barry | chasing | climax | convict | dramatic | fleeing | forest | fugitive | injury | leading man | love interest | police | running | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry is shot | 1:38:57 - Barry is shot | climax | convict | dramatic | falling | forest | fugitive | injury | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | police | shooting |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Searching) | 1:39:05 - The posse closes in on Barry | chasing | climax | convict | dramatic | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | police | searching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Sunrise | 1:40:46 - The sun rises | climax | convict | dramatic | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | sunrise effect |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Transition | 0:00:09 - Starring list | dissonant bass | dramatic | dust | main title | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | transition |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:02:29 - Joe reacts to the warden | 9th chord | 64 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dramatic | establish character | injustice | leading man | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:25:23 - Charlie grabs Mabel's arm | barn | chromatic scale | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | underscoring | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fight) | 0:25:41 - Charlie and Joe fight | 42 chord | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | fighting | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | punching | villain | warden | whole-tone scale |
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 |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Running | 0:26:05 - Joe and Mabel run | 9th chord | barn | conflict | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | octatonic | running |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dying | 0:26:09 - Charlie falls and dies | barn | death | death | dramatic | falling | mickey-mousing | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Turning around | 0:26:13 - Joe and Mabel turn around | 64 chord | barn | death | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | prisoner | turning |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:38 - Car drives towards Joe and Mabel | added-note chord | barn | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | headlights | passerby | stinger | tone cluster | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Running away | 0:26:45 - Joe and Mabel run away | barn | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | runaway | running |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Arriving | 0:26:52 - Joe and Mabel settle into their new situation | 9th chord | arriving | calm | dramatic | freedom | leading lady | leading man | runaway | settling down | street | traveling | traveling scene | truck |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fear and Devotion) | 0:35:50 - Joe and Mabel decide to stick together | alley | common-tone diminished 7th | devotion | dramatic | escape | fear | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | love | mode mixture | obsessive | runaway | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:38:00 - Joe and Mabel argue | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | runaway | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:42 - Mabel yells to Joe | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | police | room | runaway | running | street | underscoring | yelling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe runs and falls | 0:46:50 - Joe runs and falls | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | stinger | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Speeding car | 0:51:08 - The car speeds off | car | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | friend | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | shopkeeper | street | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Speeding train | 0:51:13 - A train approaches | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | mickey-mousing | train | train station | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:59:15 - A bank alarm sounds | 42 chord | 64 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crowd | dramatic | leading man | photographer | robbery | shopkeeper | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Alarm | 0:59:15 - Alarm sounds | action scene | alarm | bank | crowd | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | photographer | robbery | shopkeeper | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Heroic) | 0:59:42 - Joe takes pictures of the robbery | 42 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic scale | criminal | crowd | dramatic | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | photographer | retrograde | shopkeeper | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:59:53 - Police arrive at the scene | 64 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic scale | crowd | dramatic | leading man | police | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Headlines | 1:03:23 - Headline about the robbery | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic sequence | diner | dramatic | newspaper | newspaper boy | selling | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:10:32 - Joe runs after the car | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | running | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Brave) | 1:10:38 - Joe jumps onto the car | action scene | augmented triad | car | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fighting | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | street | whole-tone chord |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Heroic) | 1:10:32 - Joe heroically wrestles away the steering wheel | action scene | chromatic scale | dramatic | fighting | fragmentation | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | retrograde | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Car crash | 1:10:55 - Gangsters crash the car | action scene | car | chromatic scale | crashing | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | street |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:04:55 - Frank is pushed into a car | car | chromatic scale | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | fragmentation | gangster | gun | hero | kidnapping | leading man | pushing | reporter | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:05:24 - Frank is framed for drunk driving | 9th chord | attacking | car | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | minor second | murder | pushing | reporter | setup | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Hits with bottle | 0:05:26 - A bottle of alcohol is broken | 9th chord | bottle | breaking | conflict | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reporter | street | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:06 - Crowd accuses Frank of murder | 9th chord | accusing | car crash | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | injury | leading man | linear chromaticism | police | reporter | sequence | shaking | street | underscoring | yelling |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Montage | 0:22:54 - Montage showing the passing of time | chromatic parallelism | clock | dramatic | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | tense | waiting | whole-tone chord |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition (Extended) | 1:28:35 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Climb Into Truck | 0:36:16 - Klansmen throw newspaper editor in the truck then climb in | climbing | dramatic | flashback | KKK | mickey-mousing |
The FBI Story (1959) | Symbol (Bold) | 0:36:48 - Agents reveal that they are FBI men | dramatic | FBI | flashback |
The FBI Story (1959) | Agitato | 0:56:40 - Chip rushes to be with Lucy after she lost her baby | agitated | dramatic | emotional | flashback | rushing |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:02:21 - Montage of mobster mischief | dramatic | flashback | gangster | gun | gunshot | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:20:31 - Pretty Boy Floyd takes hostages to a car | dark | dramatic | flashback | gangster | mobster | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:26 - Shootout at Ma Barker's place | dramatic | flashback | gangster | gun | mobster | shootout | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:49 - Mobster Alvin Karpis announces that he is going to kill J. Edgar Hoover | dramatic | flashback | gangster | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:33:19 - Agents arrest Machine Gun Kelly | dramatic | flashback | gangster | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:57:40 - Men keep running | dramatic | escaping | flashback | underscoring |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Crime School | 0:00:08 - Starring list | 9th chord | dramatic | opening title sequence | parallelism | self-borrowing | starring list | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Maestoso) | 0:41:11 - Women enter the prison | advance plot | dark | dramatic | leading lady | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train | 0:42:28 - A rushing train | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train + Titus (Rising) | 0:42:43 - Field and Annabelle in a train car | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Dramatic) | 1:11:05 - Boldon Lumber Company | conflict | dark | dramatic | driving | foreshadowing | half-diminished 7th chord | sheriff | street |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:11:26 - Field drinks | alcohol | arriving | bullying | conflict | dramatic | drinking | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | room | sheriff | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Throwing whiskey and glass | 1:12:08 - Titus throws whiskey in Field's face | alcohol | breaking | bullying | conflict | dramatic | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | room | sheriff | slamming | splashing | throwing | tone cluster | whole-tone scale |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:12:17 - Titus grabs Field and pushes him | bullying | conflict | dramatic | leading man | politician | pushing | room | sheriff | throwing | underscoring | violent |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:12:32 - Titus throws Field out the door | augmented triad | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | dark | dramatic | leading man | politician | polychord | pushing | room | sheriff | throwing | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Breaking door | 1:12:39 - Titus breaks the glass door | breaking | bullying | conflict | door | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | polychord | room | sheriff | smashing | window |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Ostinato 2) | 1:23:34 - Field and Lane talk about Titus and Dan | arguing | dark | death scene | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ominous | ostinato | room | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Agitato (Angry) | 1:29:00 - Lane goes to confront Titus | advance plot | angry | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | dramatic | driving | leading lady | polychord | source and scoring overlap | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:30:24 - Lane pulls a gun on Titus | arguing | climax | club | dark | demanding | dramatic | gun | leading lady | ominous | sheriff | stinger | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Slowly) | 1:30:42 - Lane holds Titus at gunpoint | arguing | climax | club | dark | demanding | dramatic | gun | leading lady | ominous | self-borrowing | sheriff | telephone | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:15 - Titus attacks Lane | attacking | breaking | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dramatic | dropping | gun | leading lady | linear chromaticism | oscillation | sheriff | staggering | stinger | telephone | tense | throwing | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Breaking door | 1:31:19 - Titus throws the phone at Lane | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dramatic | gun | leading lady | mickey-mousing | sheriff | telephone | throwing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane staggers | 1:31:22 - Lane staggers after being hit | climax | club | dramatic | leading lady | mickey-mousing | oscillation | sheriff | staggering |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Ostinato 3) | 1:31:25 - Titus holds a gun on Lane | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | menacing | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Climax) | 1:31:43 - Lane struggles with Titus | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Struggling | 1:31:47 - Close-up on the gun | climax | close up | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | oscillation | sheriff | struggling | tense |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:27:50 - Steve fights Hammy | action scene | conductor score | dramatic | fighting | gangster | hurried | leading lady | leading man | room | strangling | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:53:30 - Hammy tries to escape | action scene | conductor score | dramatic | escaping | fleeing | gangster | hurried | investigator | leading man | murderer | running | shooting | street | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hammy Is Shot | 0:53:37 - Hammy falls to the ground | action scene | conductor score | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | investigator | leading man | mickey-mousing | street | tragic |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:58:48 - Bessie walks through the market | | agitated | chase scene | conductor score | dramatic | floozy | gangster | hurrying | investigator | leading man | mysterious | street | tense | walking |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 1:31:32 - Amato picks up his gun | action scene | conversing | dramatic | gangster | leading man | packing | room |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 1:33:17 - Marcia looks for Steve | action scene | dock | dramatic | leading lady | running | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:34:01 - Steve confronts Amato | action scene | dock | dramatic | gangster | inspector | kidnapping | leading lady | leading man | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:34:08 - Steve confronts Amato | action scene | dock | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | inspector | kidnapping | leading lady | leading man | shooting | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato runs | 1:34:27 - Amato runs to his boat | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | following | gangster | inspector | leading man | running | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Boat Chase | 1:34:33 - Amato tries to escape in a boat | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | following | gangster | inspector | leading man | running | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve dives | 1:34:48 - Steve dives in the water | action scene | agitated | diving | dock | dramatic | gangster | inspector | jumping | leading man | mickey-mousing | splashing | tense | water |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:34:53 - Steve climbs in the boat | action scene | boat | dock | dramatic | driving | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 1:34:57 - Steve and Amato fight | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 1:35:21 - Steve and Amato fight | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Police running | 1:35:32 - The policemen run | action scene | agitated | dock | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | police | running | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:35:44 - The police boat leaves the dock | action scene | boat | departing | dock | dramatic | police | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:35:47 - Steve and Amato fight | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:35:56 - The police boat advances | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:36:12 - Steve and Amato fight | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato falls | 1:36:20 - Amato falls in the water | action scene | boat | dock | dramatic | falling | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | splashing | tense | water |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Lifting up | 1:36:50 - Amato is brought onboard | boat | dock | dramatic | gangster | inspector | leading man | lifting | mickey-mousing | police | raising | tense | up | water |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (Transition) | 0:00:08 - Starring list | bold | cards | dramatic | gambling | opening title sequence | poker | starring list | transition |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (Main Title) | 0:00:16 - Main title | cards | cast list | dramatic | gambling | opening title sequence | poker | romantic | roulette | title of film |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Waxman]) | 0:17:02 - Steve fights Felix | action scene | arguing | conversing | criminal | dark | death | dramatic | gambler | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | owner | punching | room | self-defense | shooting | singer | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Waxman]) | 0:42:19 - Approaching headlights | action scene | criminal | dark | departing | dramatic | driving | henchman | leading man | leaving | reporter | street | stumbling | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Street Scene | 0:44:59 - Neon signs on Broadway | dramatic | street | transition | upbeat |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 0:51:26 - Don shoves Candy | arguing | conflict | criminal | departing | dramatic | fighting | gambler | henchman | leading man | reporter | room | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 0:54:59 - Cop takes a witness | departing | dramatic | leading man | letter | mysterious | police | police station | reporter | signature | tense | turning point | typing | underscoring | waiter | witness |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Body and Soul (Intro) | 0:56:28 - Night club sign | arriving | crowd | dramatic | music scene | sign | street |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 1:03:37 - Steve shoots his sister | action scene | club | crowd | dramatic | dying | gambler | husband | leading man | murderer | police | reacting | shooting | sister | underscoring | victim |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | The Escape | 1:03:50 - Steve tries to escape | action scene | car | chasing | club | crowd | dramatic | driving | escaping | gambler | husband | jumping | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | police | running | sister | street | victim |
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 |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Steiner]) | 1:14:17 - Cop looks at his watch | climax | conversing | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | henchman | leading lady | leading man | police | reporter | room | singer | stinger | telephone | tense | underscoring | watch | wife |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Speeding | 1:14:21 - Policeman driving | car | climax | dramatic | driving | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | police | reporter | rushing | singer | tense | wife | yelling |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Steiner]) | 1:15:53 - Joe shoots at Steve | climax | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | dying | falling | gambler | gun | gunshot | henchman | husband | leading man | murder | murderer | revenge | shooting | street | widow |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Speeding | 1:16:29 - Candy tries to run away | arriving | capturing | car | climax | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | gambler | henchman | leading man | murder | murderer | police | reporter | revenge | running | street | tense |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (The End) | 1:18:02 - The End | criminal | dark | death | dramatic | end title sequence | gambler | henchman | leading lady | leading man | murderer | police | reporter | singer | street | The End | tragic | wife |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Gunfight) | 1:03:34 - Gunfight between Matt and commie agent | agent | dramatic | main theme | shootout |
| Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:17:50 - Vic and Hinkel gather together some papers | dramatic | hero | tense | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Dramatic) | 1:23:31 - Vic gets out of the car and crosses the street | car | dramatic | underscoring |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Our Life | 0:00:17 - Title of the film | cast list | dramatic | opening title sequence | title of film |
In This Our Life (1942) | Meno | 0:00:34 - Cast list | cast list | dramatic | fanfare | opening title sequence |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Slowly) | 0:17:20 - Stanley talks with Craig | advance plot | conversing | dramatic | fiancé | kissing | leading lady | lying | room | sultry |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:01 - Stanley has an accident | car | child | crashing | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | driving | drunk | leading lady | street | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Car crash | 1:09:01 - Stanley hits two pedestrians | accident | car | car crash | crashing | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | driving | drunk | dying | falling | hit and run | leading lady | mickey-mousing | street | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Turning around | 1:09:06 - Stanley turns around | accident | car | car crash | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | drunk | glaring | hit and run | leading lady | mickey-mousing | stinger | street | turning |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Valse Triste) | 1:26:23 - Stanley confesses | arguing | climax | confessing | confession | criminal | crying | dramatic | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | room | suspect |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:28:57 - Stanley escapes | climax | criminal | dramatic | driving | escaping | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | room | underscoring | watching |
In This Our Life (1942) | Maestoso | 1:31:51 - Stanley runs off crying | conflict | criminal | crying | departing | dramatic | leading lady | room | running | street | uncle | yelling |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:30 - Stanley dashes through the gate | conflict | criminal | dramatic | hiding | leading lady | police | running | rushing | street | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Chase) | 1:32:59 - The police chase after Stanley | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Fleeing) | 1:33:12 - The police chase after Stanley | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:33:29 - Two other policeman see Stanley | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | dark | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | street | tense | underscoring | watching |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Crying) | 1:33:37 - Stanley crying in her car | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | dark | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | somber | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Rising Tension) | 1:33:49 - The police in hot pursuit | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Desperate) | 1:34:02 - The police in hot pursuit | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:34:09 - Stanley's eyes in the rear-view mirror | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | police | street | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Car crash 2 | 1:34:17 - Stanley's car crashes | brash | car | car crash | chase scene | climax | crashing | criminal | dramatic | driving | dying | falling | fire | leading lady | mickey-mousing | police | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Tragic) | 1:34:28 - Police run to Stanley's car | brash | car | car crash | chase scene | climax | criminal | dramatic | dying | fire | helping | leading lady | mournful | police | reporting | rescuing | rushing | somber | street | tragic |
| The Informer (1935) | Falling down the stairs | 1:06:19 - Gypo falls down the stairs | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | courtroom scene | down | dramatic | falling | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | stairs | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape | 1:19:46 - Gypo escapes and a chase ensues | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic scale | dramatic | escaping | headquarters | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | prison | rebel | room | running | traitor | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Begging) | 1:25:50 - Katie pleads for Gypo | advance plot | begging | dramatic | leading lady | love interest | main theme | rebel | room |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape (The Fight) | 1:28:25 - Rebels shoot through the door | antagonist | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climax | down | dramatic | escaping | falling | fighting | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | running | tense | traitor | whole-tone |
| Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:33:17 - Mr. Temple rises to attack Rocco | angry | arguing | attacking | boss | conflict | dramatic | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | laughing | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Falling | 0:33:38 - Mr. Temple falls to the ground | angry | boss | conflict | dramatic | falling | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | landing | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:33:43 - Nora rises to attack Rocco | angry | attacking | boss | conflict | dramatic | father | gangster | hitting | horror | hostage | hotel | kissing | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring | violence |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Dissonant) | 0:40:25 - McCloud walks over to Nora | angry | boss | conflict | dramatic | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | protecting |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco 3 (Angry) | 0:40:32 - Rocco gets angry | angry | boss | conflict | dramatic | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | stinger | taunting |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:48:10 - Rocco shoots Deputy Sawyer | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | father | fear | gangster | gun | gunshot | horror | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | look of horror | moll | shooting | stinger | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Falling and dying | 0:48:19 - Deputy Sawyer falls dead off-screen | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | father | gangster | gun | gunshot | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | moll | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Storm | 1:06:07 - Tree crashes through window | beach | blowing | crashing | dramatic | hurricane | raining | storm | storm scene | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Tree falls | 1:06:28 - Stormy weather outside | beach | dramatic | falling | hurricane | mickey-mousing | storm | storm scene | tense | tree |
Key Largo (1948) | Shelter in the Storm | 1:06:41 - Storm continues outside | beach | blowing | crashing | dramatic | hurricane | Indian | raining | sheltering | storm | storm scene | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Storm Subsides | 1:07:15 - Storm starts to die down | beach | blowing | calming | dramatic | hurricane | raining | storm | storm scene | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:14:48 - Sheriff finds out that it is Sawyer | conflict | corpse | discovering | dramatic | hotel | murder | realizing | sheriff | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:32 - Sheriff runs to talk to the Indians | conflict | dock | dramatic | running | sheriff | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:26:10 - Gangsters board the boat with McCloud | advance plot | boarding | boss | dock | dramatic | gangster | hostage | leading lady | leading man | moll | storm | tense | underscoring | wind |
Key Largo (1948) | Tension (The Boat) | 1:26:31 - McCloud tries to start the boat | advance plot | boat | boat | boss | dramatic | gangster | hostage | leading man | leaving | motor | sputtering | starting | stinger | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:35:14 - McCloud shoots Rocco | boat | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting | stinger | tense |
| The Letter (1940) | Runners | 0:05:14 - Workers run through jungle | action scene | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | heroic | jungle | running | sequential modulation | servant | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:04 - Robert leaves | action scene | conversing | death | dramatic | husband | murder | servant | underscoring | warehouse |
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) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:14:07 - Leslie continues her story | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fragmentation | home | leading lady | pc set | polychord | recounting | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tragic) | 0:14:31 - The scene of the crime | advance plot | changing meter | composer reference | dramatic | home | leading lady | oscillation | point of view | recounting | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Screwyoso) | 0:14:42 - The bottom of the stairs | advance plot | common-chord modulation | dramatic | emotional | home | leading lady | point of view | recounting | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Appassionato) | 0:19:26 - Leslie closes the blinds | changing meter | dramatic | emotional | home | leading lady | linear chromaticism | love scene | sequence | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Ominous) | 0:22:58 - The site of the murder | advance plot | augmentation | call and response | Chinese | dramatic | leading lady | leaving | mysterious | plantation | reveal | shadow | spying | stinger | tense | watching | widow |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:45 - Robert asks to see the letter | arguing | augmented triad | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pc set | sequence | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 1:17:52 - Leslie confesses to Robert | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | ostinato | recounting | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tragic) | 1:17:59 - Leslie confesses to Robert | changing meter | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Ethereal) | 1:18:13 - Leslie confesses to Robert | chromatic sequence | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence |
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) | Leslie (Guilty) | 1:19:41 - The full moon on a dark night | dramatic | moon | oscillation | panning shot | pedal tone | plantation | suspension | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Guilty) + Foxtrot No. 1 | 1:20:53 - Leslie looks at the full moon | advance plot | combination of themes | dagger | dramatic | home | leading lady | looking | moon | oscillation | polytonality | stinger | 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) | 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 |
The Letter (1940) | Letter | 1:34:41 - End credits | changing meter | closing credits | dramatic | end title sequence | minor-major 7th chord | oscillation | plagal cadence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (End Title) | 1:34:44 - End credits | closing credits | dramatic | end title sequence | plagal cadence |
The Letter (1940) | Alternate Ending | NIF - not in film | closing credits | dramatic | end title sequence | plagal cadence |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | String | 0:32:51 - Boy stands up and cries about Trev | dramatic |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Father Paul (Dark) | 0:33:25 - Concerned looks between the people at the table | bold | dark | dramatic |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Liza (Lost Love) | 1:22:09 - Liza in a daze | dramatic | lost love | romance |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Dazed) | 1:22:19 - Liza in a daze | confusion | dramatic | lost love | romance |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally goes upstairs | 0:09:28 - Wally ascends the spiral staircase | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | chromatic scale | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | room | spiral staircase | stairs | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally knocks on the door | 0:09:59 - Wally knocks on a door | action scene | door | dramatic | friend | knocking | mickey-mousing | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Lamp falls | 0:10:03 - Wally knocks over a lamp | action scene | body | dramatic | falling | friend | lamp | mickey-mousing | reveal | room | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Murdered Man | 0:10:06 - Wally discovers the body | action scene | corpse | dark | death | dramatic | friend | linear chromaticism | looking | mickey-mousing | murder | room | split-7th chord | telephone | tense | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone chord | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally walks | 0:10:32 - Wally hurriedly walks away | action scene | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | room | victim | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Breaks door with chair | 0:10:47 - Wally smashes a glass door with a chair | action scene | breaking | chair | door | dramatic | friend | glass | mickey-mousing | room | smashing | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Glass falls | 0:10:49 - The glass door breaks | action scene | breaking | door | dramatic | falling | friend | glass | mickey-mousing | room | smashing | victim | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally runs | 0:11:01 - Wally runs out of the house | action scene | beach | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | dramatic | friend | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | running | shooting | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Cops walk | 0:11:08 - The cops walk down the hill | action scene | beach | dramatic | lumbering | mickey-mousing | police | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Opens coat | 0:11:12 - Policeman opens Wally's coat to frisk him | action scene | beach | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | opening | police | searching | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sehr Dramatic) | 0:12:06 - Mildred arrives home | advance plot | arriving | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | dark | daughter | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | imitation | leading lady | street | tense | tritone | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | NIF - not in film | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | cut from film | dissonant | dramatic | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | hopeful | mode mixture | sequence | tender | tense | tragic | turbulent | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Stunned Reaction | 1:23:44 - Mildred is stunned after Veda slaps her | angry | antagonist | conflict | daughter | dramatic | heroine | leading lady | pc set | room | staring | stunned | violence |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Revenge) | 1:43:57 - Mildred drives to the beach house | car | chromatic scale | common-tone diminished 7th | dark | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | flashback ends | gun | heroine | leading lady | pc set | street | transition |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 1:46:43 - Mildred runs away | altered dominant | antagonist | arguing | betrayal | chromatic scale | climax | daughter | dramatic | emotional | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | room | running | sequence |
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 |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Clarinet Solo) | 1:00:58 - John and Laura talk about Joan | added-note chord | conflict | conversing | dramatic | gentle | leading man | peaceful | room | stinger | transcribed by ear | wife |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:42 - Goff slaps Jonah | arguing | chef | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | extortion | falling | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | slapping | stinger | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:41:03 - Stella slaps Goff | criminal | dock | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love scene | reacting | slapping | stinger | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:45:13 - Goff enters | arriving | conflict | conversing | criminal | dock | dramatic | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | tense |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:00 - Jonah calls for the cop | arguing | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | underscoring | yelling |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:49:39 - Goff stops Jonah | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | leading man | mickey-mousing | panning shot | stinger | street | threatening | underscoring | violence | walking | weapon |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Beating | 0:50:17 - Goff beats Jonah | beating | conflict | criminal | dark | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | leading man | mickey-mousing | street | violence | weapon |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:50:24 - Goff shoves Jonah | conflict | criminal | dark | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | leading man | street | threatening | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:51:05 - Goff gives Jonah a gun | conflict | criminal | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | gun | leading man | mocking | stinger | street | threatening | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:59 - Goff hits George | boyfriend | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | falling | fighting | fisherman | friend | leading man | punching | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:45 - Goff struggles with Jonah and Olaf | attempted murder | climax | criminal | dramatic | fighting | fisherman | friend | leading man | punching | sea | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Speeding Car | 1:11:50 - A speeding car | action scene | car | dramatic | driving | fisherman | friend | rushed | rushing | street | tense |
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 | 1:13:32 - A car racing down the street | action scene | car | crowd | double exposure | dramatic | driving | leading lady | point-of-view shot | police | questioning | reporter | rushed | rushing | street | tense |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Dramatic Underscoring) | 0:43:06 - Larry walks into his office | dramatic | law office | lawyer | mirroring | office | ostinato | polytonality | transition | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Scandal) | 1:24:55 - Newspaper headlines about the murder | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | ostinato | radio | rushing | sequential modulation |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (The Trial) | 1:25:17 - Chris on trial | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | knife | lawyer | mirroring | montage | ostinato | polytonality | prosecuting | prosecutor | rushing | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 1:25:44 - Mrs. Tanner testifies | altered dominant | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | quartal chord | rushing | testifying | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:51 - Art shop owner testifies | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | rushing | testifying | tritone | underscoring | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Heavy) | 1:26:02 - Newspaper of Chris testifying | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | rushing |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (End Cast) | 1:48:07 - Closing credits | closing credits | dramatic | end title sequence | ostinato | turbulent |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Allergic Reaction | 0:09:04 - Tommy has an allergic reaction to the cat | 9th chord | 64 chord | allergies | boy | cat | doctor | dramatic | establish character | hero | office |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Celebre Romance (Agitato) | 1:01:40 - News of the war | chaotic | classical music | conflict | crowd | dramatic | familiar tune | riot | Rubinstein | running | street | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Agitato | 1:02:31 - Crowd presses forward | 11th chord | chaotic | classical music | conflict | conversing | crowd | dissonant bass | dissonant bass | dramatic | familiar tune | riot | Rubinstein | street |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:03:40 - Jessica takes Gerald outside | 11th chord | antagonist | boy | child | conflict | dramatic | street | tense | underscoring | walking |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Furioso | 1:04:49 - Man throws rock through shop window | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | riot | rioting | street | underscoring |
| White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:23:32 - They leave the motel quickly and get in the car | dramatic | escaping | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:35:05 - Judge sentences Jarrett in a courtroom | courtroom | dramatic | judge | underscoring | verdict |
White Heat (1949) | T-Men (Courtroom) | 0:35:30 - Jarrett is taken off to prison | dramatic | mickey-mousing | prison |
White Heat (1949) | T-Men (Prison) | 0:40:26 - Hank says he doesn't recognize his wife anymore | dramatic | prison |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:42:52 - Verna and Big Ed argue | angry | dramatic | gangster | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:04:01 - The prison walls | dramatic | prison | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Dramatic) | 1:05:23 - Cody makes his escape with a gun and forces the doctor to make a phone call | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | prison | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:02 - Cody takes control of the prison room and plans his break | dramatic | prison | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:07:13 - Cody forces men out at gun point | dramatic | prison | prison break | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | The Break | 1:07:19 - Cody and men go outside | dramatic | escaping | prison | prison break |
White Heat (1949) | The Break 2 | 1:07:29 - Cody and men get in the car | dramatic | escaping | prison | prison break |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Dramatic) | 1:07:49 - Cody and men leave in the car | dramatic | escaping | prison | prison break |
White Heat (1949) | Prison Gate | 1:08:17 - Cody and men escape through the prison gate in the car | dramatic | escaping | gate | mickey-mousing | prison | prison break |
White Heat (1949) | Pursuit (Chasing Ma) | 1:08:44 - Policemen drive and learn of Cody's escape from prison with hostages | car | dramatic | driving | police |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:20 - Big Ed's body falls down the stairs | beans | death | dramatic | rolling | stairs | statue | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:39:20 - Quick cuts between agents and treasury men | dramatic | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:41:22 - Agents map coordinates of the tanker's location | dramatic | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:42:42 - Hank looks out the window | dramatic | stinger | suspense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Stairs | 1:47:22 - Gangsters climb up the stairs to the roof | dramatic | mickey-mousing | stairs | up |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Dramatic) | 1:48:48 - Gangsters run away | dramatic | running | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Cops) | 1:49:06 - Agents in action | agent | dramatic | running |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:49:08 - Gangsters run away | dramatic | running | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Climbing) | 1:50:27 - Cody climbs the stairs | dramatic | gangster | stairs | up |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:11 - Marian is locked in | antagonist | confining | conflict | conversing | cousin | criminal | dark | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | prisoner | room | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:28 - Marian sees Sir Percival spying on them | conversing | dramatic | friend | leading lady | leading man | love scene | lyrical | room | stinger | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:36:15 - Laura screams when she sees Sir Percival | conflict | criminal | dramatic | hitting | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | patient | screaming | street | struggling | underscoring | victim | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fight | 1:36:33 - Walter fights the spy | conflict | criminal | dramatic | fighting | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | patient | punching | spy | street | victim | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Stabbing | 1:45:23 - The Countess stabs Count Fosco | climax | criminal | dramatic | dropping | friend | friend | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murdering | necklace | revenge | room | stabbing | violent | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Dying) | 1:45:34 - The Countess picks up the necklace | arriving | climax | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | friend | friend | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | murder | murderer | necklace | revenge | rising | room | stinger | tense | victim | violent | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan (End Cast) | 1:48:25 - End credits | cast list | dramatic | end title sequence |
| The Public Defender (1931) | Violence | 0:00:41 - Cast list and balancing scales | balancing | cast list | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | tense | transcribed by ear | violence |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery (Note) | 0:16:14 - Man discovers mysterious note in sandwich | advance plot | augmented triad | banker | chromaticism | discovery | dramatic | eating | mysterious | mystery | party | pc set | sandwich | source and scoring overlap | transcribed by ear | waiter |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Keyhole (Gossip) | 0:01:35 - Man and woman argue about a newspaper story | arguing | argument | dramatic | establish setting | gossip | newspaper | room | sequence | transcribed by ear |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron B (Transition) | 0:02:19 - Smokey Joe fights the Indians | ambush | chromatic mediant | cowboy | dramatic | establish character | establish setting | fragmentation | gun | gunshot | horse | Indian | leading man | prairie | riding | self-borrowing | shooting | stagecoach | tense | title card | transcribed by ear |
| 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 |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Fish | 0:01:32 - Fish | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | establish setting | fish | fluttering | stinger | transcribed by ear | underwater | whole-tone chord |
| The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Fanfare | 0:00:16 - Fade-in to a seated orchestra | announcer | broadcast | dramatic | fanfare | on-screen music | opening title sequence | orchestra | playing | radio | source music | transcribed by ear |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Violent) | 0:12:29 - Newspaper headline | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | murder | murder scene | newspaper | transcribed by ear | violent |
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 |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (The End) | 0:59:03 - Ursula jumps to her death | chromatic scale | climax | dark | dramatic | dying | jumping | leading lady | murderer | The End | train | transcribed by ear |
| Emergency Call (1933) | Ambulance | 0:00:11 - Main titles over a speeding ambulance | ambulance | augmented triad | dissonant bass | Dorian mode | dramatic | driving | half-diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | paramedic | pedal tone | siren | street | through-composed | whole-tone |
Emergency Call (1933) | Theme from Cimarron | 1:00:41 - The end | added-note chord | closing credits | dramatic | end title sequence | The End | transcribed by ear |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Fall of the Star | 0:17:05 - Newspaper headline about a suicide | common-tone diminished 7th | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | somber | transcribed by ear |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 1 | 0:33:37 - Sports montage | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 2 | 0:33:47 - Sports montage | athlete | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | running |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:05 - Bob shoots guard | breaking | death | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | murder | robbery | robbery | shooting | stealing | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
| We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape (Hiding) | 0:27:05 - Pete and Danny dodge from gunfire | action scene | chromatic scale | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | shooting | stinger | street | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Kong 1 | 0:28:23 - Pete jumps on a criminal | action scene | bank | chromatic parallelism | detective | dramatic | fighting | gangster | jumping | leading man | pedal tone | punching | tense |
We're Only Human (1935) | Kong 2 | 0:28:34 - Pete handcuffs a criminal | action scene | bank | detective | dramatic | fighting | gangster | leading man | mysterious | tense | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Kong 3 | 1:01:06 - Pete leaves | car | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | departing | detective | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | hurried | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | reporter | rushing | sequence | street | victim |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 1 | 1:01:21 - Driving in a car | car | car | chromatic sequence | climax | conflict | detective | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | hurried | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | reporter | rushing | victim | wipe |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 2 | 1:01:56 - Witness threatens to kill the criminals | acceleration | arguing | car | car | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | driving | hurried | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | reporter | rushing | threat | threatening | victim |
We're Only Human (1935) | Lost Patrol 1 | 1:03:12 - A man runs | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | fleeing | frantic | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | reporter | running | shooting | victim | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Fighting) | 1:03:42 - Pete prepares to advance | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | fragmentation | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | reporter | running | sequence | shooting | tense | underscoring | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape | 1:04:31 - Pete enters the house | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | murderer | room | shooting | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 7 | 1:05:48 - Pete runs up the stairs | 9th chord | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | parallelism | pc set | pedal tone | room | running | rushing | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Lost Patrol 2 | 1:06:45 - Berger falls to the ground | climax | conflict | death | detective | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gunshot | hostage | leading man | murderer | room | tone cluster | underscoring |
| Another Face (1935) | Courage + The Iron Door | 0:02:53 - Close up on the nurse | dramatic | establish character | gangster | headline | laughing | newspaper | nurse | office | pedal tone | reacting | reading | stinger | tense |
| Without Honor (1949) | Twilight | 0:00:00 - Main titles over the shot of a valley | calm | cast list | dramatic | heavy | opening title sequene | starring list | title of film | valley |
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) | 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 (Dramatic) | 0:09:23 - Jane and Dennis struggle | addicent | adulterer | death | death scene | dramatic | fighting | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | skewer | struggling | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Maestoso) | 0:09:36 - Dennis on the ground | addicent | adulterer | death | death scene | dramatic | dying | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ominous | reacting | skewer | standing | struggling |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Washing Machine) | 0:10:14 - Dennis by the washing machine | addicent | adulterer | death | death scene | dramatic | dying | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | motor effect | ominous | reacting | skewer | struggling | washing machine |
Without Honor (1949) | Desperation (Wedding Ring) | 0:14:29 - Jane tries to take off her wedding ring | advance plot | changing | dramatic | leading lady | mirror | ring | room | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:16:50 - Jane brings her purse | advance plot | child | dramatic | leading lady | reacting | room | scout | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:21:29 - Bill heads towards the laundry room | antagonist | brother | conflict | corpse | door | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | reacting | rushing | tense | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Rubato | 0:22:34 - Bill talks with Jane | antagonist | brother | conflict | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | memory | rushing | taunting | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Poco Appassionato) | 0:23:31 - Bill grabs Jane's arm | antagonist | brother | conflict | dramatic | grabbing | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | memory | reacting | recounting | tense | waltz |
Without Honor (1949) | Jerks hand | 0:23:41 - Jane jerks her arm away | antagonist | brother | conflict | dramatic | escaping | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | reacting | stinger |
Without Honor (1949) | Grabs her | 0:25:40 - Bill grabs Jane and kisses her | antagonist | brother | conflict | dramatic | grabbing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | room | slapping | turning |
Without Honor (1949) | Chasing bus | 0:38:22 - Jane runs after the bus | action scene | bus | chasing | dramatic | falling | leading lady | mickey-mousing | running | street |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Dramatic) | 0:38:33 - Jane tries to catch the bus | action scene | bus | chasing | dramatic | leading lady | street | waving |
Without Honor (1949) | Tension (Molto Misterioso) | 0:50:03 - Bill stares at Jane | anger | antagonist | brother | conflict | conversing | demanding | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | reveal | room | secret | slapping | tense | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:53:45 - Jane screams | antagonist | blood | brother | climax | confession | dramatic | handprint | husband | leading lady | leading man | room | screaming | tense | underscoring | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Desperation (The Scream) | 0:53:50 - They look at the bloody handprint | antagonist | blood | brother | climax | confession | departing | dramatic | handprint | husband | investigating | leading lady | leading man | room | screaming | searching | tense | wife | yard |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Molto Appassionato) | 0:58:58 - Jane stares down | antagonist | attempted suicide | bathroom | brother | climax | conversing | dramatic | husband | knocking | leading lady | leading man | razor blade | room | suicide | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Molto Expressivo) | 0:59:06 - Jane cuts her wrist | antagonist | attempted suicide | bathroom | breaking | brother | climax | committing suicide | conversing | cutting | dramatic | entering | grabbing | husband | knocking | leading lady | leading man | razor blade | room | running | suicide | wife | yelling |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Broad) | 1:05:32 - Fred gets in his car | anger | antagonist | brother | car | complaining | departing | dramatic | driving | husband | leading man | resolution | street | tense | yard |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Agitato) | 1:05:49 - Bill tries to stop Fred | anger | antagonist | brother | car | chasing | complaining | departing | dramatic | driving | harsh | husband | leading man | resolution | running | street | tense | yelling |
Without Honor (1949) | The End | 1:06:25 - Bill in the middle of the road | anger | antagonist | brother | dramatic | leading man | looking | resolution | standing | street | The End |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Shark Attack | 0:07:35 - A shark in the water | action scene | attacking | biting | blood | captain | crew | death | dramatic | drowning | dying | leading man | ocean | shark | ship wreck | stinger | struggling | swimming | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Swimming | 0:07:56 - Bob swims away | action scene | beach | dramatic | escaping | leading man | mickey-mousing | ocean | ship wreck | swimming | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (The Sea) | 0:09:15 - The ocean | beach | dramatic | establish setting | leading man | looking | ocean | wave effect |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Decapitated Head | 0:31:35 - Eve sees a decapitated head | candle | castle | dramatic | head | jump scare | leading lady | leading man | screaming | stinger | turning point |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions (Dramatic) | 0:39:00 - Bob and Eve take one last look back | action scene | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | looking | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Tree falling | 0:43:14 - A tree falls | action scene | arrow | count | dark | dramatic | falling | jungle | knife | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting | trap | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Rock Falling | 0:46:09 - A rock falls into a crevice | action scene | dramatic | falling | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | rock | splashing | stinger | tumbling | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Trap Falling | 0:47:47 - The trap collapses | action scene | count | dramatic | falling | gun | jumping | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | stinger | trap | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + The Iron Door | 0:49:03 - A big door | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dog | door | dramatic | jungle | opening | running | servant | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:49:16 - Bob and Eve in the fog | barking | castle | chase scene | chasing | dog | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | preparing | running | servant | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + Russian Waltz + Iron Door | 0:49:23 - Bob and Eve running away | chase scene | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | preparing | running | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Approach (Risoluto) | 0:49:30 - Bob creates a spear trap | chase scene | dramatic | fanfare | jungle | leading lady | leading man | preparing | spear | trap | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Tremolo) + The Iron Door (Horn Call) | 0:49:40 - The Count blows his hunting horn | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dog | dramatic | fog | horn | jungle | leading lady | leading man | playing | running | scored source music | score to source | servant | source music | tense | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + Courage | 0:50:01 - Bob and Eve stumbling through the fog | chase scene | combination of themes | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | stumbling | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Tuttissimo) | 0:50:04 - The dogs appear | chase scene | chasing | dog | dramatic | jungle | running | servant | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Dogs Chasing) | 0:50:11 - The dogs running | chase scene | chasing | dog | dramatic | jungle | running | servant | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Tense) + The Iron Door (Horn Call) | 0:50:16 - Bob and Eve in the water | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dog | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | scored source music | servant | source music | stumbling | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Chasing) | 0:50:39 - The dogs chase after Bob and Eve | barking | chase scene | chasing | count | dog | dramatic | jungle | running | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Rising) | 0:50:52 - The dogs running | barking | chase scene | chasing | dog | dramatic | jungle | running | servant | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Running into spear | 0:51:01 - Ivan runs into the spear trap | chase scene | dramatic | jungle | micking mousing | rising | servant | spear | tense | trap |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Allegro) | 0:51:09 - Count Zaroff running | agitated | chase scene | chasing | count | dark | dog | dramatic | fanfare | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | servant | stumbling | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Chasing) | 0:51:28 - Count Zaroff in pursuit | agitated | chase scene | chasing | count | dark | dog | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | servant | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Approach (Fear) | 0:51:35 - Bob and Eve stop | agitated | chase scene | crocodile | dark | dramatic | fear | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | stopping | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + Russian Waltz (Augmented) | 0:52:02 - Dogs running through the swamp | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dog | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | running | servant | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Furioso) | 0:52:13 - Eve runs towards a log | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | count | dark | dog | dramatic | falling | jungle | leading lady | leading man | log | mickey-mousing | running | servant | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + The Iron Door | 0:53:33 - Bob and Eve run along a clifftop | chase scene | cliff | combination of themes | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Approach (Risoluto) | 0:53:38 - Bob and Eve hide in the trees | barking | chase scene | cliff | climbing | cutting | dog | dramatic | hiding | jumping | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | tense | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Climbing) | 0:53:55 - Zaroff climbs to the top of the cliff | chase scene | chasing | cliff | climbing | count | dramatic | fanfare | jungle | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Allegro Furioso) | 0:54:02 - A dog tries to climb the hill | barking | chase scene | chasing | cliff | climbing | dog | dramatic | jungle | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Dog falling | 0:54:06 - A dog falls down | chase scene | cliff | dog | dramatic | falling | jungle | mickey-mousing | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Running) + The Iron Door | 0:54:08 - Bob runs through the jungle | chase scene | chasing | close-up | combination of themes | count | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | point-of-view shot | running | servant | tense | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Running) | 0:54:15 - A close-up on Zaroff | chase scene | chasing | close-up | count | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | point-of-view shot | running | servant | tense | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase | 0:54:43 - A dog falls into the water | chase scene | dog | dramatic | falling | flowing | jungle | mickey-mousing | river | splashing | tense | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + Russian Waltz + Iron Door | 0:54:46 - Bob and Eve run towards the waterfall | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | preparing | river | tense | victim | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Approach (Risoluto) | 0:54:59 - Count Zaroff by the river | chase scene | chasing | count | dramatic | hiding | jungle | leading lady | leading man | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Tremolo) + The Iron Door (Horn Call) | 0:55:08 - Count Zaroff approaching the waterfall | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dramatic | hiding | jungle | leading lady | leading man | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Dog attacking | 0:55:19 - A dog rushes at Bob | attacking | climax | count | dog | dramatic | fighting | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Dog Fight) | 0:55:24 - Bob fights a dog | attacking | climax | count | dog | dramatic | fighting | jungle | leading lady | leading man | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Dog Fight) | 0:55:33 - A barking dog | attacking | climax | count | dog | dramatic | fighting | jungle | leading lady | leading man | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Dog falling 2 | 0:55:37 - Bob kills the dog | attacking | climax | count | dog | dramatic | falling | fighting | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Dog attacking | 0:55:42 - A dog rushes at Bob | attacking | climax | count | dog | dramatic | fighting | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | river | running | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
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