| 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) | The Amazing Doctor | 0:20:05 - Dr. Clitterhouse enters Hotel Sequin | 42 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | lobby | mysterious | quartal chord | sign | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Fur Store | 0:44:20 - Truck arrives at the United Fur Co. | chromatic parallelism | darkness | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | pedal tone | store | street | suspenseful | transition | truck |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman | 0:44:29 - Watchman arrives at the store | darkness | dissonant bass | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | keys | mysterious | opening | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Walking | 0:44:39 - The watchman walks | augmented sixth chord | darkness | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:45:26 - Criminals on the rooftop | 42 chord | carrying | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crime | criminal | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | robbery | rooftop | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | thief | tossing | underscoring | walking | whole-tone |
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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:00:10 - Jo and Rocks quarrel | advance plot | antagonist | arguing | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | quarreling | room | tense |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring cast list | bold | chromatic wedge | dark | half-diminished 7th chord | linear chromaticism | opening title sequence | starring list | transition |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:40:50 - Gangsters shoot their own man in phone booth | chromatic sequence | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | polychord | shooting | shop | sneaking | tense | voice-exchange |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:41:20 - Police car arrives | arriving | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | half-diminished 7th chord | rushing | shop | street | tense | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Elevator Music) | 0:42:40 - Elevator goes up | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | elevator | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | rising | room | tense |
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) | 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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:44 - Rocky punches a guard | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | fighting | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:20:51 - Eddie dreams | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | eating | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | humming | leading man | room | scored source music | sequence | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Meno) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | cut from film | half-diminished 7th chord | peaceful |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Opens window | 0:13:59 - The aunts open the window | advance plot | aunt | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mickey-mousing | opening | raising | room | upbeat | window |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Wind blowing 2 | 0:52:32 - The aunts walk to the window | advance plot | aunt | blowing | chromatic parallelism | crazy person | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | looking | murderer | mysterious | room | wind | wind effect | window |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Tense) | 0:58:28 - Elaine comes in the door | advance plot | bride | calling | darkness | entering | familiar tune | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | room | sequence | sneaking | tense |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Shadows of the main characters | bold | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | opening title sequence | silhouette | smoke | smoking | starring list | transition | voice exchange |
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) | 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 |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Molto Mysterioso e Screwyoso) | 1:15:19 - Cobb sees the gun | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dissonant bass | dock | fragmentation | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | ostinato | tense | tritone oscillation | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi dies | 1:15:34 - Googi is shot | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | 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) | 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 Escape | 1:12:03 - Boys escape | down | escape | escaping | gang | half-diminished 7th chord | jumping | mickey-mousing | mysterious | reformatory | sneaking | teenager | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Jumping down | 1:12:03 - Boys jump out of the window | diminished 7th chord | down | escape | escaping | gang | half-diminished 7th chord | jumping | mickey-mousing | mysterious | reformatory | sneaking | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:12:21 - Cooper talks with the warden | chromatic parallelism | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | phone call | plotting | police | reformatory | telephone | tense | warden |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:23:21 - Men at the diner stand up | added-note chord | advance plot | diner | dissonant bass | fighting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | linear chromaticism | money | mysterious | sitting | sneaking | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Steps on money | 0:23:30 - A man steps on Johnnie's money | advance plot | diner | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | money | mysterious | stepping |
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 |
| 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 (Stick Up) | 0:50:12 - Joe pulls out a gun | gun | half-diminished 7th chord | jail | jail break | leading lady | leading man | tense | warden |
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 |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Confusion | 0:05:43 - Frank sits confused in car after crash | accusing | car | car crash | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | confused | crowd | dissonant bass | fire | glass | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | injury | leading man | reporter | running | street | yelling |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Frank (Parole Denied) | 1:07:58 - Frank's parole is denied | 9th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | dark | despair | foreign key modulation | half-diminished 7th chord | hopeful | leading man | letter | prison | prisoner | reading | sigh gesture | solemn | turning point |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Tutti) | 1:08:05 - Titus and Field arrive at the construction site | arriving | dark | dominant 7th chord | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | ominous | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | transition |
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) | Somber Phone Call | 1:19:54 - Dan calls Lane from the station | calling | conflict | half-diminished 7th chord | husband | leading lady | leading man | politician | somber | tone cluster | train station | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Rising Tension) | 1:30:09 - Lane confronts Titus | arguing | climax | club | dark | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | ominous | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff |
| The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Four Coins) | 0:23:15 - Bartender puts four coins on the table | advance plot | antagonist | augmented triad | bartender | coin | counting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | money | mysterious | placing | pub | tense |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Lying) | 0:23:40 - Gypo lies about where he got the money | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic sequence | conversing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | lying | octatonic | pub | Scotch snap | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:39:05 - Rebels talk about Gypo | advance plot | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | headquarters | rebel | room | tense | underscoring |
The Informer (1935) | Dan and Mary | 0:55:53 - Dan and Mary talk alone | ABA structure | chromatic parallelism | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | embracing | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | love interest | love scene | love theme | mode mixture | passionate | pedal tone | romantic | room |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Molto Agitato) | 1:03:45 - Katie worries for Gypo | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | conversing | drunk | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | rebel | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Confession) | 1:16:00 - Gypo confesses and cries | 9th chord | altered dominant | antagonist | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | guilt | half-diminished 7th chord | headquarters | leading man | pedal tone | pedal tone | remorseful | room | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | By the Fire | 1:22:36 - Gypo rests by the fire | antagonist | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | romantic | room | suspension | traitor | yearning |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Tuttissimo) | 1:28:53 - Gypo stumbles into a church | antagonist | church | climax | dirge | dissonant bass | dominant pedal | dying | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mysterious | street | stumbling | tense | traitor | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Shimmery) | 0:02:57 - Leslie stands over the dead body | cloud | death | half-diminished 7th chord | home | leading lady | moon | murder | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallelism | plantation | sequence | suspension | watching |
The Letter (1940) | Collapse | 0:38:20 - Leslie collapses | anxious | collapsing | fainting | falling | fearful | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading lady | letter | mickey-mousing | pivotal scene | prison | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Confession) | 1:16:36 - Leslie confesses to Robert | confessing | conflict | dark | half-diminished 7th chord | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | ostinato | recounting | sequence | serious | tritone | tritone oscillation |
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 (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 |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 0:02:42 - Mildred walks out onto the dock | altered dominant | dock | establish character | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pondering | sequence | somber | suicide | tragic | water | wave |
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) | 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) | 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) | Mazurka in B-Flat Major (Tense) | 0:38:47 - Veda plays a Chopin Mazurka | arguing | child | classical music | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | familiar tune | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | on-screen music | playing | quotation | room | scored source music | source music | tense | upbeat | waltz |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Agitato) | 1:14:37 - Mildred and Monte argue | agitated | arguing | breakup | conflict | distortion | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | love interest | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Mad) | 1:43:19 - Mildred makes a phone call | anger | angry | calling | dissonant bass | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | room | tense | turbulent | turning point | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:45:25 - Mildred walks downstairs | arriving | climax | dark | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | imitation | leading lady | ominous | room |
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 |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:51:06 - Joan talks with Vergie | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | daughter | foreign key modulation | gentle | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop | timid |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Quasi Appassionato) | 0:54:24 - John expresses his love for Vergie | conversing | direct modulation | dissonant bass | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | love scene | outside | passionate | secret love | secret lover |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising Anger) | 1:15:35 - Bob walks | angry | chromatic scale | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | husband | intense | meandering | oscillation | ostinato | room | transition | walking |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Hushed) | 0:04:59 - David talks to his son | boy | child | classical music | establish character | familiar tune | father | half-diminished 7th chord | Haydn | hero | home | hushed | quotation | subtle |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica | 0:10:01 - Jessica enters the room | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | establish character | half-diminished 7th chord | office | sour | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica | 0:45:10 - Jessica enters the room | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | home | mother | room | sour |
| 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 |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Fate) | 0:09:11 - The swami predicts Ursula's fate | antagonist | conversing | dark | establish character | fate | fortune teller | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mickey-mousing | mysterious | predicting | room | somber | stinger | swami | train whistle | 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 (Mysterious Waltz) | 0:33:37 - Ursula talks to Burns | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | love interest | mode mixture | romantic | room | transcribed by ear | waltz |
| 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 |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:39:59 - Bob (Bat) pulls a gun on Grace | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | confronting | fragmentation | frantic | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mirror shot | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | popular music | reacting | room | screaming | sequence | shooting | simulated source music | source music | staring | tense | threatening | victim |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Blood Money (Four Coins) | 0:27:37 - Pete and Danny hide | action scene | bank | detective | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | leading man | mysterious | preparing | sneaking | tense |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Lying) | 0:27:51 - Danny prepares to advance | action scene | bank | chromatic sequence | detective | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | leading man | octatonic | preparing | sneaking | tense |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 8 | 1:05:55 - Pete advances slowly | arguing | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hostage | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | polychord | room | sneaking | taunting | tense | tricking | underscoring |
| Another Face (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:30 - Gangster talks with nurse | chromatic parallelism | conversing | doctor | establish character | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | nurse | office | tense | underscoring |
Another Face (1935) | Zaroff (Molto Moderato) + The Iron Door | 0:02:43 - The gangsters depart | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conversing | departing | doctor | establish character | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | nurse | office | tense |
Another Face (1935) | Courage (Tone Cluster) | 0:04:26 - Gangster all bandaged up | conversing | departing | doctor | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | nurse | operating room | operation scene | patient | whole-tone chord |
Another Face (1935) | Zaroff (Poco Agitato) | 0:05:01 - Nurse argues with doctor | advance plot | arguing | blackmail | chromatic parallelism | doctor | half-diminished 7th chord | nurse | operating room | tense |
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