Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Modulating) | 0:14:10 - Mortimer calls to Elaine | added-note chord | aunt | bride | cemetery | conversing | deceptive resolution | driver | familiar tune | flirting | fragmentation | groom | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | pump-up modulation | rushed | rushing | sequence | source to score | street |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Religioso) | 0:14:41 - Mortimer and Elaine in the cemetery | 64 chord | bride | calm | cemetery | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | groom | hymn-like | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | religious | suspension |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Chasing | 0:14:48 - Mortimer chases Elaine around a tree | bride | cemetery | chasing | comical | flirting | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | mickey-mousing | secondary dominant |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:14:51 - Mortimer flirts with Elaine | bride | cemetery | conversing | flirting | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | mysterious | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Appassionato) | 0:15:02 - The aunts peek out of the window | 64 chord | aunt | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | groom | inversion | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | peeking | romantic |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Church Bells) | 0:15:17 - Mortimer follows Elaine | 64 chord | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | parallelism | romantic |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Modulating) | 0:15:36 - Mortimer and Elaine talk | added-note chord | bride | cemetery | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | fragmentation | groom | hurried | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | pump-up modulation | romantic | sequence |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Church Bells) | 0:16:22 - Mortimer and Elaine talk | 64 chord | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | parallelism | romantic |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Flirtation | 0:01:42 - Carmen flirts with Marlowe | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe | 0:02:01 - Marlowe gives Carmen a fake name | added-note chord | comical | common-tone dominant 7th | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Sly) | 0:02:12 - Marlowe and Carmen talk | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen falls | 0:02:20 - Carmen falls into Marlowe's arms | daughter | diminished 7th chord | establish character | falling | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | mickey-mousing | playful | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen | 0:02:21 - Carmen in Marlowe's arms | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mysterious | oscillation | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Girl Driver | 0:39:53 - Marlowe pays the lady cab driver | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | flirting | investigation scene | leading man | love interest | private eye | seductive | street |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood (Extended) | 0:52:29 - Carmen asks for her picture back | 9th chord | altered dominant | blackmail | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | evidence | femme fatale | flirting | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | seductive | whole-tone chord |
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 Golondrina | 0:12:21 - Harry sits down with Leona in the bar | advance plot | bar | calm | conversing | fisherman | flirting | floozy | folk music | leading lady | leading man | sailor | source music |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Dolce) | 0:30:28 - Peggy talks to Danny | 9th chord | 11th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | common-chord modulation | conversing | flirting | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love scene | playful | room | shaving |
City for Conquest (1940) | Peggy pokes Danny | 0:30:47 - Peggy pokes Danny | 11th chord | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mickey-mousing | playful | room | shaving | teasing |
City for Conquest (1940) | Only Fooling | 0:30:54 - Peggy cleans Danny's face | arguing | common-tone modulation | conversing | diminished 7th chord | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love scene | parallelism | playful | room | shaving |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Lightly) | NIF - not in film | altered dominant | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | cut from film | flirting | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | pedal tone | police | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Dolce) | 0:17:58 - Lane flirts with Field | falling in love scene | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pedal tone | playful | police | porch | sweet |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Molto Grazioso | 0:51:40 - Dan notices Lane | conversing | delicate | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Quasi Blues) | 0:51:46 - Dan flirts with Lane | 13th chord | added-note chord | conversing | countermelody | flirting | flirty | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room | self-borrowing | sultry | thematic transference |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Bluesy) | 0:55:00 - Dan buys some cold drinks | 9th chord | altered dominant | bluesy | flirting | foreshadowing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mode mixture | parallelism | politician | porch | self-borrowing |
In This Our Life (1942) | Flirting | 0:37:31 - Peter goes to Stanley | 9th chord | 64 chord | conversing | flirting | happy | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Grazioso) | 0:37:56 - Stanley talks to Peter | 9th chord | added-note chord | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | conversing | flirting | happy | leading lady | leading man | love scene | pleasant | room | sultry |
In This Our Life (1942) | How Do I Know It's Sunday | 0:57:12 - Stanley starts a record playing | AABA structure | advance plot | conversing | crying | dancing | father | flirting | leading lady | leading man | popular music | record player | room | sister | source music | upbeat | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Uncle Fitzroy | 1:04:26 - Uncle Fitzroy talks to Stanley | augmented sixth chord | conflict | conversing | crying | dancing | flirting | leading lady | room | solemn | uncle | whole-tone chord | widow |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underneath a Western Sky | 0:56:48 - A chuckwagon dinner | actor | advance plot | calm | campfire | chuckwagon | conversing | cowboy song | crowd | drinking | eating | father | flirting | food | friend | leading lady | love interest | mother | on-screen music | owner | playing | ranch | source music |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Too Much Love | 0:59:02 - Shelly looks at Trev's portrait | actor | advance plot | calm | conversing | flirting | friend | leading lady | love interest | party | popular music | portrait | ranch | source music |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Disrobes | 0:50:47 - Monte takes off Mildred's robe | beach house | cheerful | disrobing | dissonant bass | falling | falling in love scene | flirting | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | robe |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bathing Suit | 0:50:49 - Monte looks at Mildred in her bathing suit | 9th chord | attraction | beach house | cheerful | dissonant bass | falling in love scene | flirting | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Frolicking) | 0:51:01 - Mildred runs to the beach | 9th chord | beach | cheerful | falling in love scene | flirting | foreign key modulation | frolicking | heroine | jaunty | leading lady | love interest | running | tritone |
White Heat (1949) | Verna (Molto Expressivo) | 0:11:38 - Verna embraces Cody | bluesy | conversing | dark | embracing | flirting | gangster | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | moll | money | mother | murderer | room | victim | waltz |
We're Only Human (1935) | Silver Lining | 0:13:56 - Pete and Sally in a restaurant | conversing | date | detective | flirting | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | reporter | restaurant | source music |
Girl of the Rio (1932) | Yo Con tu Amor | 0:12:26 - Don Jose talks with Dolores | advance plot | celebrity | conversing | flirting | leading lady | leading man | night club | parallel double period | romantic | singer | source music | Spanish |
Girl of the Rio (1932) | Was it Wrong? | 0:15:41 - Johnny rolls a pair of dice | conversing | crowd | dancing | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | night club | on-screen music | performing | romantic | singer | source music | syncopation | terrace | upbeat |