The Letter (1940) | Plantation | 0:00:58 - Plantation sign | calm | establish location | exotic | exoticism | gamelan | Indonesian music | open fifth | pentatonic | plantation | quintal chord | setting | sign | Singapore |
The Letter (1940) | Native | 0:01:21 - Men sleeping in hammocks | Dorian mode | dripping | establish location | exoticism | gamelan | gunshot | Indonesian music | melodic cell | mysterious | native | on-screen music | panning shot | pentatonic | plantation | playing music | quintal chord | setting | Singapore | sleeping |
The Letter (1940) | Native (Uncut) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | Dorian mode | exoticism | melodic cell | ostinato | pentatonic | quintal chord | setting |
The Letter (1940) | Creeping | 0:16:38 - Man creeping in the dark | advance plot | creeping | exoticism | Locrian mode | mickey-mousing | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | plantation | sequential modulation | servant | sneaky |
The Letter (1940) | Chinese Quarter | 0:54:15 - The car enters the Chinese Quarter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | driving | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | leading lady | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | setting | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Chinese Shop | 0:55:30 - Howard and Leslie look around | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | layering | leading lady | Lydian mode | mirroring | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | polytonality | quintal chord | tense | transition | waiting | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Native (Climactic) | 1:30:42 - Leslie walks through her garden | climax | crying | Dorian mode | exoticism | gamelan | Indonesian music | leading lady | mysterious | panning shot | parallelism | plantation | setting | somber | walking |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Arabian) | 0:35:46 - Music is played on the radio | AABA structure | advance plot | Arabian | comment on score | dancing | exoticism | popular song | radio | romantic | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Arabian) | 0:38:56 - Music is played on the radio | advance plot | Arabian | dancing | exoticism | leading lady | popular song | radio | romantic | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Captain Gerald | 0:43:23 - Gerald tells Leni a story | added-note chord | advance plot | boy | child | exoticism | foreign key modulation | heroine | home | imagination | room | somber | telling a story |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) | 0:11:45 - Ursula forges the swami's signature | advance plot | antagonist | dark | exotic | exoticism | forging | Gypsy major scale | horoscope | leading lady | mysterious | ostinato | room | signing | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) + The Train | 0:23:07 - Helen points the gun at herself and cries | antagonist | combination of themes | crying | exotic | exoticism | gun | Gypsy major scale | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pedal tone | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Suicide) | 0:24:18 - Helen commits suicide | antagonist | chromaticism | committing suicide | dying | exotic | exoticism | gun | gunshot | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pc set | pedal tone | stinger | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) | 0:32:54 - Burns enters the house | advance plot | entering | exotic | exoticism | Gypsy major scale | leading lady | love interest | ostinato | room | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic 2) | 0:33:52 - Ursula talks to Burns | advance plot | conversing | dark | exotic | exoticism | Gypsy major scale | leading lady | love interest | mysterious | ostinato | room | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) | 0:34:06 - Ursula argues with Burns | advance plot | arguing | dark | exotic | exoticism | Gypsy major scale | leading lady | love interest | mysterious | ostinato | room | transcribed by ear |