| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Hold That Tiger | 0:13:15 - Young people dancing | advance plot | cheerful | conversing | dance hall | friend | leading man | on-screen music | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Introduction | 0:24:14 - Boys in the washroom | advance plot | conversing | dance hall | friend | leading man | mysterious | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Washroom Sequence) | 0:24:25 - Eddie talks with his friends | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | dance hall | friend | leading man | score to source | somber | source music | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Moonbeams (Dream Sequence) | 0:27:23 - Eddie takes Flo home | added-note chord | advance plot | double exposure | dream sequence | entering | friend | hectic | kissing | leading man | mode mixture | romantic | source to score | street | transcribed by ear | waltz |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Eddie Sings) | 0:40:40 - The boys leave the scene of the crime | friend | leading man | murderer | murder scene | nervous | singing | source music | street | walking |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | St. James Infirmary | 0:41:24 - Young people lounging around | advance plot | Dixieland | friend | lazy | leading man | lounging | love interest | murderer | radio | room | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | St. James Infirmary | 0:42:08 - Young people talking | advance plot | conversing | Dixieland | friend | lazy | leading man | love interest | murderer | radio | room | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Hey! Hey! | 0:50:14 - Eddie and Flo dance | 9th chord | AABA structure | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | dance hall | dance scene | dancing | friend | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:50:55 - Young people dancing | AABA structure | arguing | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | dance hall | dance scene | dancing | friend | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Stars and Stripes Forever | 0:52:14 - Young people cavorting in the street | advance plot | cheerful | dancing | drunk | friend | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | singing | source music | street |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:53:07 - Drunken young people | advance plot | cheerful | dancing | drunk | friend | hallway | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | singing | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto 2) | 0:53:55 - Newspaper headlines | advance plot | arresting | dark | detective | double exposure | fragmentation | friend | headline | leading man | love interest | murderer | newspaper | ominous | room | sequential modulation | spinning | thematic transformation | underscoring |
| City for Conquest (1940) | The Continental | 0:19:53 - Peggy dances with Murray | boxer | conversing | crowd | dance band | dance hall | dancer | dance scene | dancing | friend | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | playing | popular music | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Jalousie | 0:20:39 - Danny sitting at a table | boxer | crowd | dance band | dance hall | dancer | dance scene | dancing | friend | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | popular music | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | I’m Just Wild About Harry | 0:23:07 - Close-up of Lily | award | boxer | conversing | crowd | dance band | dance hall | dancer | dance scene | friend | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | popular music | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 | 1:28:11 - Peggy cries | advance plot | conversing | crying | friend | leading lady | room | somber |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem D (Dolce) | 1:28:33 - Gladys talks to Peggy | advance plot | comforting | conversing | crying | friend | gentle | leading lady | newspaper | room | sweet |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 (Maestoso) | 1:29:11 - Peggy looks up | advance plot | friend | hopeful | leading lady | newspaper | reading | room |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose | 0:40:51 - Joe and Mabel in Nick's Diner | accompanied source music | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | diner | establish character | familiar tune | friend | happy | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel double period | popular song | radio | shopkeeper | singing | source music | ternary form |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Irish Rose) | 0:42:25 - They go to work in the kitchen | diner | establish character | friend | happy | leading lady | leading man | score to source | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Delicatessen) | 0:43:38 - Mabel and Nick talk | common-tone diminished 7th | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | secondary dominant | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (In Love) | 0:43:51 - Mabel and Nick talk | 9th chord | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Delicatessen) | 0:44:01 - Mabel and Nick talk | common-tone diminished 7th | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | secondary dominant | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Waltz) | 0:44:17 - Mabel and Nick talk | develop character | diner | familiar tune | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | pedal tone | popular song | shopkeeper | singing | source music |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Calm) | 0:44:32 - Mabel and Nick talk | added-note chord | altered dominant | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:46:58 - Nick working | create suspense | dark | dissonant bass | friend | police | room | shopkeeper | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Hiding) | 0:47:35 - Nick talks with Joe | 42 chord | advance plot | anxious | diminished 7th chord | diner | fragmentation | friend | hiding | leading man | money | runaway | shopkeeper | suspense |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:58 - Joe walks to the jail | 64 chord | friend | jail | jail break | leading man | runaway | shopkeeper | tense | underscoring | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Trickery) | 0:48:45 - Joe talks to the jailer | distortion | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | jail | jail break | leading man | parallelism | passerby | shopkeeper | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (The Escape) | 0:50:26 - Joe and Mabel leave the jail | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | escaping | foreign key modulation | friend | hopeful | jail | jail break | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Grandioso) | 0:50:50 - Joe and Mabel outside | 42 chord | 64 chord | deceptive resolution | escaping | friend | heroic | jail break | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | shopkeeper | street | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Stinger | 0:51:01 - They see approaching headlights | 42 chord | danger | friend | jail break | leading lady | leading man | ominous | shopkeeper | siren | 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) | Dust Be My Destiny (Thankful) | 0:51:24 - Joe, Mabel, and Nick talk in the car | augmented sixth chord | escape | friend | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper | thankful | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Goodbye) | 0:51:35 - Joe and Mabel say goodbye to Nick | 9th chord | escape | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | popular song | shopkeeper | tender | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Grandioso) | 0:52:06 - Joe and Mabel leave on a train | 9th chord | 64 chord | calm | escape | familiar tune | friend | leading lady | leading man | popular song | shopkeeper | sweet | tender | train station | triumphant |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Frank (Released) | 1:28:49 - Frank is released | 9th chord | altered dominant | artwork in score | conclusion | embracing | friend | gentle | goodbye | leading lady | leading man | Neapolitan | passionate | peaceful |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Mob | 1:28:20 - A mob forms outside of Lane's home | advance plot | angry | anxious | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | friend | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | mob | mobbing | ostinato | polyrhythm | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 1:28:52 - Lane says Titus's name | advance plot | conversing | dark | friend | leading lady | mob | ominous | room | self-borrowing | zoom in |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Ecstatic) | 1:33:37 - Lane walks away | added-note chord | altered dominant | artwork in score | chromatic parallelism | friend | husband | joyous | leading lady | leading man | leaving | prison | resolution | reuniting | romance | secondary dominant | The End | thematic transference | triumphant | wife |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Prison Gate | 0:01:25 - Steve exits the prison gate | conductor score | establish character | friend | gate | leading lady | leading man | leaving | prison | serious | walking |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hell on Frisco Bay | 0:02:01 - Marcia embraces Steve | conductor score | embracing | establish character | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | street |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:02:12 - Steve mentions a divorce and leaves | conductor score | conversing | dark | establish character | friend | investigator | leading man | street | underscoring |
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) | Adoramus te Christe | 0:38:32 - A funeral | church | conversing | friend | funeral | investigator | leading man | somber | source music |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:52:13 - Dan waits for Steve | advance plot | conductor score | friend | gangster | investigator | leading man | pacing | street | tense | underscoring | waiting |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 0:52:23 - Steve arrives | advance plot | conductor score | conversing | friend | gangster | investigator | leading man | neutral | street |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Blues in the Night (Transition) | 0:43:37 - Craig's office door | arriving | assistant | calm | friend | leading lady | love scene | office | pleasant | source to score |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Expressivo) | 0:43:43 - Roy talks with Parry | assistant | calm | conversing | friend | leading lady | love scene | office | pleasant |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy | 0:50:40 - Roy arrives at Stanley's apartment | advance plot | arriving | friend | gentle | leading lady | room | sweet |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:50:58 - Roy talks with Betty | advance plot | conversing | friend | gentle | leading lady | room | tender | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Door opens | 0:51:37 - Betty opens the door | advance plot | door | friend | gentle | leading lady | mickey-mousing | opening | room |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer (King Gypo) | 1:01:03 - Gypo's friend brags about him | advance plot | antagonist | bragging | cheerful | crowd | friend | leading man | party | proud |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Quiet!) | 1:01:27 - The rebels enter and start an argument | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | arguing | bold | crowd | dark | friend | interrupting | leading man | matching speech | mickey-mousing | party | rebel |
| Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Tense) | 1:19:02 - Rocco welcomes new gangsters | boss | conversing | friend | gangster | greeting | hotel | investigation scene | laughing | tense | underscoring |
| The Letter (1940) | Foxtrot No.1 C | 1:21:36 - Leslie goes to the party | calm | conversing | dance music | dancing | foxtrot | friend | leading lady | party | party | source music |
The Letter (1940) | Foxtrot No.2 | 1:22:12 - Leslie dances at the party | conversing | dance music | dancing | foxtrot | friend | happy | husband | leading lady | party | party | source music |
The Letter (1940) | Foxtrot No.3 | 1:23:25 - Robert talks to friends at the party | conversing | dance music | drinking | foxtrot | friend | happy | husband | leading lady | party | party | source music |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby | 0:03:59 - Wally sees Mildred from the window | conversing | establish character | familiar tune | friend | heroine | jazz | leading lady | on-screen music | restaurant | source music | upbeat |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | action scene | ascending | down | dramatic | falling | friend | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally tries to open door | 0:08:53 - Wally tries to open the door | action scene | door | frantic | friend | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | stinger |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally goes upstairs | 0:09:28 - Wally ascends the spiral staircase | action scene | ascending | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | room | spiral staircase | stairs |
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 |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Murdered Man | 0:10:06 - Wally discovers the body | action scene | corpse | dark | death | dramatic | friend | looking | mickey-mousing | murder | room | telephone | tense | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Phone rings | 0:10:16 - Phone rings | action scene | death | friend | mickey-mousing | murder | ringing | room | telephone | tense | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally stands up and walks | 0:10:21 - Wally stands up to go to the phone | action scene | friend | mickey-mousing | rising | room | standing | tense | up | victim | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally walks | 0:10:32 - Wally hurriedly walks away | action scene | dramatic | friend | hurrying | mickey-mousing | room | victim | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally sneaks | 0:10:37 - Wally sneaks down the hall | action scene | friend | mickey-mousing | room | sneaking | tense | victim |
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 |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally runs | 0:11:01 - Wally runs out of the house | action scene | beach | dramatic | friend | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | running | shooting | victim |
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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:11:13 - Policemen investigate the scene | action scene | beach | conversing | friend | mysterious | police | searching | tense | underscoring | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Excited) | 0:42:35 - Mildred and Wally leave | excited | excitement | friend | heroine | leading lady | leaving | room | shadow | transition | work |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Beach House | 0:42:49 - They drive up to the beach house | arriving | beach house | driving | friend | heroine | leading lady | ocean | peaceful | transition | water | wave |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:42:58 - Mildred and Wally walk to the house | arriving | beach house | excited | friend | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | ocean | transition | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Molto Grazioso) | 0:48:16 - Mildred works at her restaurant | cheerful | friend | heroine | ladder | leading lady | legs | restaurant | transition | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | First Kiss | 0:49:40 - Monte steals a kiss from Mildred | cheerful | falling in love scene | friend | heroine | kissing | leading lady | restaurant | romance |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:49:48 - Driving to the beach house | beach house | cheerful | driving | falling in love scene | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | traveling | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | T’Ain’t No Good | 0:57:37 - Mildred at the opening of her restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | While You’re Away | 0:59:47 - Monte arrives at the restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | love interest | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Please Think of Me | 1:01:54 - Monte dances with Veda | advance plot | antagonist | celebrating | dancing | daughter | friend | heroine | jukebox | leading lady | love interest | on-screen music | popular music | restaurant | singing | source music | upbeat |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Subtle) | 1:09:27 - Mildred looks at Monte's bills | advance plot | conversing | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | subtle | voice-over |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby | 1:16:01 - Wally and Veda in a restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | cheerful | conversing | daughter | drinking | friend | popular music | restaurant | source music | toasting |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:18:34 - Veda tells her mother she is married | antagonist | conflict | conversing | daughter | friend | heroine | leading lady | reverse stinger | room | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:18:59 - Veda talks to her mother | antagonist | conflict | conversing | daughter | fear | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | surprised | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Coy) | 1:19:11 - Veda talks to her mother | antagonist | apologizing | conflict | daughter | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Waltz Fantasy) | 1:19:18 - Mildred talks to Veda | antagonist | comforting | conflict | daughter | dream-like | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tenderly) | 1:19:37 - Wally talks about a settlement | antagonist | conflict | conversing | daughter | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | tender |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | It Can’t Be Wrong (Molto Misterioso) | 1:42:42 - Mildred learns that Monte has betrayed her | bankruptcy | betrayal | dark | familiar tune | friend | heroine | leading lady | love theme | memory | mysterious | popular music | realizing | room | somber | turning point |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Darktown Strutters’ Ball | 0:40:06 - Sadie and Mike in a bar | advance plot | business man | club | common-chord modulation | conversing | friend | love interest | plotting | ragtime | source music | upbeat |
| Rockabye (1932) | Out of the Blue | 0:33:38 - People at a party | advance plot | calm | club | conversing | friend | leading lady | on-screen music | pianist | playing | playwright | singer | singing | source music |
Rockabye (1932) | Till the Real Thing Comes My Way | 0:33:55 - Judy at the party | advance plot | club | conversing | dancing | friend | leading lady | love interest | on-screen music | pianist | playing | playwright | source music | upbeat |
Rockabye (1932) | Improvisation (in Rockabye) | 0:35:35 - People at a party | advance plot | club | conversing | drinking | friend | on-screen music | playing | source music | upbeat |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner (Headlines) | 1:24:17 - Chris is suspected of murder | climax | friend | hurrying | montage | newspaper | newspaper boy | ostinato | panicked | police station | polytonality | radio | reporter | room | rushing | street | surprise | widow |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Ask Anyone Who Knows | 1:34:08 - Paula reads the paper in her apartment | calm | conversing | friend | husband | radio | reading | resolution | room | source music |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Would You Believe Me | 1:36:54 - Paula talks with Bob | calm | conversing | friend | husband | radio | reading | resolution | room | source music |
| High Stakes (1931) | Close to Me | 0:01:09 - People at a party | conversing | establish character | friend | on-screen music | playing | source music | upbeat | waiting | wedding |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Serenade | 0:28:11 - Jo plays the piano | advance plot | calm | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | friend | gentle | on-screen music | piano | playing | room | secondary dominant | self-borrowing | sentence form | source music | transcribed by ear |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Swing it Sister | 0:21:09 - Eddie at a party | conversing | friend | leading lady | leading man | party | popular music | room | upbeat |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Oh, Mama | 0:22:48 - Pudge sings | athlete | awkward | crowd | friend | listening | party | room | singing | source music |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Humming | 0:54:33 - Wesley and Harry work on the boat | arriving | calm | criminal | friend | harbor | humming | leading man | on-screen music | sailor | source music | transition | walking | working |
