| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | School Girls | 0:01:12 - Young girls walking to school | added-note chord | chatting | child | establish setting | pedal tone | pleasant | school | street | upbeat | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke (Maestoso) | 0:14:03 - Henriette enters the palace | arriving | butler | calm | chromatic mediant | chromatic sequence | countermelody | establish place | establish setting | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | noble | palace | sequential modulation | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:14:49 - Henriette hears the Duke and Duchess arguing | arriving | butler | common-chord modulation | deceptive resolution | duchess | duke | establish setting | interrupting | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | room | tense |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sidewalks of New York | 0:00:58 - Organ grinder on the streets of New York | cheerful | conversing | establish place | establish setting | source music | street | teenager | walking |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Sidewalks of New York (Quasi Barcarolle) | 0:05:13 - The Brewster home | 64 chord | calm | card | cemetery | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | enharmonic modulation | establish setting | familiar tune | gravestone | ominous | stinger | street | wind | wind effect |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Sidewalks of New York (Walking) | 0:05:30 - Cops patrol the neighborhood | 64 chord | calm | establish setting | familiar tune | fragmentation | police | street | walking |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Loyalton | 0:01:49 - The town of Loyalton, Wisconsin | city | establish setting | mysterious | street | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill | 0:02:00 - A sawmill | countryside | establish setting | industrious | machinery | machinery effect | sawmill | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 0:02:15 - A sawmill | combination of themes | countryside | establish setting | harsh | industrious | machinery | machinery effect | sawmill | steam whistle | voice-over | whistle | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Loyalton 2 | 0:02:27 - Deserted streets of Loyalton | calm | establish setting | street | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Lewis (Office) | 0:02:44 - The doctor's office | calm | establish setting | noble | street | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train | 0:03:12 - A departing train | departing | establish setting | mysterious | tense | train | train effect | train station | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train + Chicago | 0:03:20 - A departing train | accompanied dialogue | combination of themes | departing | establish setting | familiar tune | mysterious | popular tune | tense | train | train effect | train station | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Moderato) | 0:03:32 - Rosa's house | establish setting | house | maid | somber | voice-over | walking | yard |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Maestoso) | 0:03:57 - Rosa's maid | establish setting | house | maid | tense | voice-over | walking | yard |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Bicycle | 0:04:03 - A boy on a bicycle | bicycle | bicycle effect | child | establish setting | excited | riding | running | street | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Courthouse | 0:04:14 - People in a courthouse | courtroom | crowd | establish setting | tense | trial | voice-over | waiting | watching |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Molto Moderato Misterioso) | 0:04:33 - People in a courthouse | courtroom | crowd | establish setting | juror | mysterious | stinger | trial | voice-over | waiting | watching |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:05:09 - A fish in a stream | countryside | doctor | establish setting | fish | fishing | flashback | leading man | mysterious | underscoring | voice-over |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Flor de Lis | 0:08:17 - A ship sailing | art song | boat | boat | boating | conversing | establish setting | flirting | floozy | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | sailor | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | En Mi Canto de Amor | 0:08:57 - A dock at night | arriving | art song | boat | conversing | docking | establish setting | flirting | floozy | harbor | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | sailor | source music | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | La Adelita | 0:09:56 - A Mexican village at night | arriving | bar | bartender | conversing | establish setting | folk music | leading man | musician | on-screen music | performing | sailor | salesperson | selling | source music | street | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Carmen, Carmela | 0:11:11 - Harry talks to Duncan in a bar | AABA structure | bar | conversing | criminal | establish setting | floozy | folk music | gambling | leading lady | leading man | musician | on-screen music | performing | pleasant | sailor | serenading | singing | source music |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Bavardage | 0:01:10 - The beach | AABA structure | beach | casino | establish character | establish place | establish setting | gambler | gambling | leading man | luggage | pleasant | roulette wheel | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Russian Waltz | 0:30:05 - Philip arrives at Florence's home | 9th chord | arriving | calm | chromatic sequence | common-tone diminished 7th | establish setting | fugitive | leading man | mansion | mode mixture | on-screen music | piano | playing | pleasant | source music | waltz | wandering |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy) | 0:01:33 - A cop tells a man to keep moving | 9th chord | 13th chord | bridge | chromatic parallelism | city | conversing | establish place | establish setting | old man | police | soliloquy | uneasy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (City Struck) | 0:02:03 - Old-timer talks with cop | 9th chord | bridge | chromatic scale | city | conversing | establish setting | excited | old man | police | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Montage) | 0:02:18 - A montage of New York City scenes | added-note chord | boat | bridge | car | chromatic parallelism | city | conversing | Dutch angle | establish setting | excited | fragmentation | montage | old man | panning shot | police | pump-up modulation | soliloquy | train |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Snake) | 0:02:35 - A montage of New York City scenes | 13th chord | 64 chord | altered dominant | bridge | chromatic sequence | city | conversing | countermelody | double exposure | Dutch angle | establish setting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | grand | montage | old man | police | snake effect | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy) | 0:02:50 - Old-timer talks with cop | 9th chord | 13th chord | arguing | bluesy | bridge | chromatic parallelism | city | establish setting | old man | police | sentimental | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Cop Grabs Bum) | 0:03:06 - Cop pushes old-timer | 9th chord | arguing | bridge | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | city | comical | establish setting | mickey-mousing | old man | police | pushing | rushing | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues | 0:01:16 - New York City streets | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | blues | cut from film | establish setting | fun | Gershwinesque | main title | setting | street | upbeat |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | The Daily Journal | 1:00:10 - Sign for The Daily Journal | establish setting | fanfare | heroic | mode mixture | Neapolitan | newspaper | sign | street | triumphant |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road | 0:00:18 - Book cover for Flamingo Road | blues | bluesy | book cover | cast list | establish setting | Gershwinesque | mode mixture | parallelism | self-borrowing | title of film |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Chapter One) | 0:00:54 - Chapter one from Flamingo Road | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | establish setting | gentle | mode mixture | self-borrowing | street | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Boldon City | 0:01:13 - Boldon City sign | busy | common-tone diminished 7th | dominant pedal | establish setting | light | pentatonic | street | townsfolk | voice-over | working |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 0:01:22 - The Palmer House | altered dominant | dark | establish setting | ominous | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae | 0:01:26 - Lute Mae's Roadhouse | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | bluesy | club | countermelody | dancing | eating | establish setting | musician | on-screen music | playing | self-borrowing | simulated source music | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Ain't We Got Fun | 0:01:41 - A carnival scene | carnival | carny | establish setting | on-screen music | parallel double period | playing | source music | townsfolk | upbeat | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Vision of Salome | 0:02:12 - Exotic dancers | announcing | carnival | carny | dancer | dancing | establish setting | exotic | Gypsy minor scale | leading lady | mysterious | on-screen music | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Arabian Riff | 0:02:36 - Exotic dancers | announcing | carnival | carny | dancer | dancing | establish setting | exotic | leading lady | mysterious | on-screen music | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Vision of Salome | 0:03:12 - Two men argue | arguing | carnival | carny | dancer | establish setting | exotic | Gypsy minor scale | leading lady | mysterious | on-screen music | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | The Capitol | 0:56:03 - The Olympic City capitol building | chromatic mediant | courthouse | deceptive resolution | establish setting | Mixolydian mode | noble | self-borrowing |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:04:31 - Steve gets off the bus | dark | dock | establish setting | friend | investigator | leading man | leaving | menacing | transcribed by ear |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 0:04:44 - Steve wanders the docks | conductor score | dock | establish setting | investigator | leading man | noble | transcribed by ear | wandering |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:05:06 - Steve sees some boats | conductor score | dark | dock | establish setting | fanfare | investigator | leading man | transcribed by ear | wandering |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace 2 | 0:05:12 - Steve looks at the boats | brash | conductor score | dock | establish setting | investigator | leading man | transcribed by ear | wandering |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 0:05:25 - Steve wanders the dock | conductor score | dock | entering | establish setting | investigator | leading man | noble | transcribed by ear |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | The Church | 0:07:19 - A church | church | conductor score | establish setting | pleasant |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia Misterioso) | 0:01:17 - Agent walks to the phone | agent | airport | arriving | calling | conversing | dialing | establish setting | march | mysterious | ostinato | polychord | sequence | telephone | tense | tone cluster | tritone oscillation | typewriter | typing | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | FBI | 0:02:10 - FBI building | agent | chromatic mediant | conversing | establish setting | noble | office | oscillation | secretary | tense | triadic transformation | typing | working |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | FBI (Extended) | 0:02:33 - Pittsburgh FBI office sign | agent | chromatic mediant | conversing | establish setting | noble | office | oscillation | tense | triadic transformation | typing | working |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Molto Misterioso) | 0:02:57 - Mason gets his assignment | agent | conversing | establish setting | map | march | mysterious | office | ostinato | planning | polychord | sequence | tense | tone cluster | tritone oscillation | working |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist (Pittsburgh) | 0:03:38 - Aerial view of Pittsburgh | augmented triad | bridge | busy | chromatic parallelism | city | establish setting | factory | frantic | machinery effect | oscillation | ostinato | panning shot | sequential modulation | tense | tone cluster | train | voice-over | whistle |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Dublin) | 0:01:03 - Title card establishes the setting in Dublin, Ireland | 9th chord | 11th chord | establish setting | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | nun | opening title sequence | religious symbolism | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | street | title card | tritone substitution |
| Key Largo (1948) | The Keys | 0:01:07 - On-screen text establishing the Florida keys | bus | car | establish place | establish setting | on-screen text | peaceful | street | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | The Bus | 0:01:26 - The bus is pulled over | agitated | bus | car | establish setting | police | street | tense | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | Bus Stops | 0:01:42 - The bus stops | bus | car | establish setting | police | stopping | street | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Traveling | 0:02:21 - The bus drives on | bus | establish setting | exciting | starting | street | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | Largo Hotel | 0:02:34 - Frank arrives at the Largo hotel | bus | establish setting | hotel | mode change | peaceful | stopping | tense |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Somber) | 0:01:37 - A house on the beach | added-note chord | beach | establish setting | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | optimistic | pedal tone | somber | water | wave |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | London Bridge is Falling Down | 0:03:31 - Children dancing in a circle | cheerful | child | children's song | dancing | establish setting | parallelism | park | pedal tone | playing |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Yankee Doodle | 0:03:37 - Children playing | 64 chord | cheerful | child | children's song | dancing | direct modulation | establish place | establish setting | flashback | park | playing | wipe |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Kuckuck, Kuckuck | 0:03:43 - An old car drives by | cheerful | child | children's song | common-chord modulation | dancing | establish setting | establish time | park | playing |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Everybody's Doing It Now | 0:03:48 - Horses and buggies in a small town street | altered dominant | buggy | common-tone diminished 7th | deceptive resolution | driving | establish setting | establish time | horse | playful | popular song | riding | street |
| The Woman in White (1948) | The Spring is Coming | 0:01:37 - A train station | cheerful | conversing | establish setting | folk music | leading man | light | train | train station | voice-over | waiting | worker |
The Woman in White (1948) | The Carman's Whistle | 0:02:16 - Walter asks for directions | calm | directions | establish place | establish setting | establish time | forest | gentle | leading man | Renaissance music | voice-over | walking | worker |
| Hell’s Highway (1932) | Hikin' Jerry | 0:00:14 - Main titles and newspaper headlines | call and response | establish setting | guard | headline | montage | newspaper | opening title sequence | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
| Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | The Prisoner's Song | 0:01:11 - Prisoners in a prison yard | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | establish place | establish setting | mode mixture | prison | somber | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Transition | 0:01:22 - Speeding truck and a door | diminished 7th chord | establish setting | mysterious | poster | street | transcribed by ear | transition |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Keyhole | 0:01:29 - Newspaper reads "The Keyhole to the City" | establish setting | jazz | keyhole | raucous | transcribed by ear | transition |
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 |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Cute! | 0:01:58 - Gossip column about a gambler | altered dominant | bluesy | conversing | establish setting | gossip | newspaper | parallelism | sultry | transcribed by ear | whole-tone |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Geraldine Tucker | 0:02:18 - Woman in the hospital | establish setting | hospital | mellow | newspaper | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Press Club | 0:02:41 - Man serving beer in a bar | bar | bartender | establish setting | jazz | server | serving | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron A | 0:00:14 - Title of film and starring list | American Indian music | bold | establish setting | fanfare | menacing | minor pentatonic | open fifth | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Men of America (1932) | Cimarron C | 0:01:08 - Smokey Joe fights the Indians | ambush | common-chord modulation | cowboy | establish character | establish setting | fanfare | gun | gunshot | horse | Indian | leading man | noble | parallel double period | prairie | riding | self-borrowing | shooting | stagecoach | title card | 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) | Sidewalks of New York | 0:00:14 - New York harbor | calm | establish setting | harbor | opening title sequence | transcribed by ear |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Sidewalks of New York (Aquarium) | 0:01:00 - Outside of aquarium | calm | establish setting | foreign key modulation | harbor | mysterious | setting | transcribed by ear |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Penguin | 0:01:25 - A penguin | aquarium | comical | diminished 7th chord | establish setting | half-diminished 7th chord | penguin | transcribed by ear | waddling |
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 |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Sea Creatures | 0:01:39 - A shark, an octopus, and a fish | establish setting | fish | mysterious | octopus | shark | swimming | tense | transcribed by ear | tritone | underwater | whole-tone |
| Blind Adventure (1933) | My Imaginary Sweetheart (Coda) | 0:01:33 - View of London | calm | city | deceptive resolution | establish setting | transcribed by ear |
| Headline Shooter (1933) | Transition | 0:01:23 - Video cast list | diminished 7th chord | establish setting | mysterious | poster | reused recording | street | transcribed by ear |
| Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Sidewalks of New York (Waltz) | 0:00:11 - Tugboats sailing under a bridge | boat | cheerful | city | establish place | establish setting | parallelism | popular song | sailing | transcribed by ear |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Sidewalks of New York (Two-Step) | 0:00:17 - Buildings in New York City | cheerful | city | establish place | establish setting | linear chromaticism | popular song | transcribed by ear |
| Another Face (1935) | Success at any Price Transition | 0:00:58 - Times Square in New York City | car | conversing | deceptive resolution | driving | establish setting | foreign key modulation | gangster | laughing | mysterious | street | sultry |
Another Face (1935) | Lover's Quarrel | 0:01:38 - Gangsters get out of a car | arriving | establish setting | gangster | mysterious | office | sequence | street | walking |
Another Face (1935) | Suicide Transition | 0:01:57 - Gangsters arrive at doctor's office | arriving | conversing | doctor | establish setting | gangster | mysterious | office | parallelism | pedal tone |
| Without Honor (1949) | Tragic (Lento) | 0:01:23 - Shot of a valley | establish setting | panning shot | peaceful | valley | voice-over |
Without Honor (1949) | Dog | 0:01:55 - A dog running | car | dog | driving | establish setting | leading man | light | orchard | playful | running | street |
Without Honor (1949) | Tempo di Gavotte | 0:02:09 - A car coming to a stop | car | driving | establish setting | leading man | light | playful | stopping | street |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Triste) | 0:02:19 - Dennis exits his car | car | establish setting | house | leading man | somber | street | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Violin Solo) | 0:02:44 - Jane in the kitchen | cooking | doorbell | establish setting | food | kitchen | leading lady | somber |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door (Waking) | 0:08:31 - Bob slowly wakes | barking | beach | establish setting | leading man | mysterious | rising | screaming | waking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Getting up | 0:08:51 - Bob rises to his feet | barking | beach | establish setting | leading man | looking | mickey-mousing | mysterious | rising | standing | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Climbing | 0:08:58 - Bob climbs the rocks | beach | climbing | establish setting | leading man | mickey-mousing | 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) | The Approach | 0:09:31 - Bob approaches | approaching | establish setting | jungle | leading man | tense | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (The Castle) + The Iron Door | 0:09:42 - Count Zaroff's castle | approaching | castle | combination of themes | establish setting | jungle | leading man | looking | ominous | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Sneaking | 0:09:54 - Bob approaches the iron door | arriving | castle | door | door knocker | establish setting | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | sneaking | statue | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Door Opens) | 0:10:26 - The iron door slowly opens | arriving | castle | door | door knocker | establish setting | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | sneaking | statue | walking |
| Mara Maru (1952) | Manuelo | 0:00:00 - WB shield | cheerful | establish setting | map | opening title sequence | Spanish | WB shield | zoom in |
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