| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts | 0:09:05 - Aunt Abby scurries across the room | aunt | crazy person | delicate | establish character | foreign key modulation | gentle | harmonic sequence | hurrying | leading lady | room | scurrying |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts | 0:12:26 - Reverend leaves | advance plot | aunt | cheerful | conversing | crazy person | delicate | foreign key modulation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | street |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Grazioso Con Moto) | 0:13:16 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | brother | cheerful | conversing | crazy person | delicate | foreign key modulation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | plotting | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Allegretto) | 0:13:52 - The aunts run to the window | advance plot | aunt | cheerful | harmonic sequence | leading lady | mode mixture | pedal tone | room | running |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts | NIF - not in film | cut from film | foreign key modulation | harmonic sequence |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts | 0:39:01 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | cleaning | conversing | crazy person | foreign key modulation | harmonic sequence | leading lady | murderer | room | upbeat |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Grazioso Con Moto) | 0:52:20 - The aunts move through the kitchen | advance plot | aunt | calm | conversing | crazy person | foreign key modulation | harmonic sequence | leading lady | murderer | pleasant | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts | 0:53:55 - Aunt Abby goes to the front door | advance plot | aunt | brother | calm | crazy person | darkness | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | silhouette | staring | upbeat | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Ashamed) | 1:03:55 - Johnnie tells them he can't fight | 9th chord | conflict | dark | foreign key modulation | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | lying | room | somber | teenager |
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) | Whistling (Suspenseful) | 0:46:25 - Mabel looks out the window | anxious | cheerful | concerned | create suspense | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | police | polytonality | room | scored source music | source music | whistling |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Appassionato | 1:19:10 - Dan argues with Lane | arguing | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | harmonic sequence | husband | leading lady | leading man | passionate | politician | room | wife | yearning |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Morendo) | 0:29:32 - Craig talks with Roy | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | conversing | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | park | somber |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Morendo) | 0:53:56 - Roy puts Stanley to bed | 9th chord | advance plot | calm | comforting | harmonic sequence | leading lady | room | sister | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Crying) | 1:33:37 - Stanley crying in her car | 9th chord | appoggiatura | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | dark | dramatic | driving | fleeing | harmonic sequence | leading lady | police | somber | street | tense |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie B | 0:00:25 - Cast list | cast list | changing meter | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | harmonic sequence | main title | opening title sequence | romantic |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Revolver) | 0:03:43 - A pistol lies on the steps | changing meter | conversing | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gun | harmonic sequence | home | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | oscillation | sequential modulation | servant | tense |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Lightning | 0:00:24 - Title card, cast list and prison | cast list | dramatic | harmonic sequence | lightning effect | opening title sequence | prison | self-borrowing | title of film | transition |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Joan) | 0:50:31 - Joan enters Vergie's shop | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | distortion | entering | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | meeting | mother | octatonic scale | reunion | secret | shop | timid |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:00:07 - Joan and Ranny talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | light | love interest | love scene | optimistic | proposal | proposing | room | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Agitated) | 1:01:27 - John and Laura argue about Joan | agitated | arguing | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | leading man | octatonic scale | room | tense | transcribed by ear | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:02:11 - Joan and Ranny enter | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | arguing | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | room | surprise | wife |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage) | 0:46:47 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 64 chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | boxer | boxing | boxing ring | cheering | chromatic parallelism | fanfare | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | heroic | leading man | montage | newspaper |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Heart's Affair | 0:49:16 - Marie speaks with her mother | advance plot | altered dominant | conversing | harmonic sequence | home | mode mixture | mother | newspaper | romantic | sister | transcribed by ear | yearning |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Appassionato | 0:03:13 - Gerald is scolded by his mother | antagonist | boy | child | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | deceptive resolution | dominant 7th chord | establish character | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | hero | home | linear chromaticism | mother | passionate | scolding | sequence | telling a story | tense |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:37:44 - David and Leni talk | conversing | harmonic sequence | hero | heroine | love scene | prison | somber | triadic transformation | underscoring |
| Transgression (1931) | Main Title | 0:00:15 - Title of film, starring list, cast list | AABA structure | altered dominant | cast list | gentle | happy | harmonic sequence | leading lady | mode mixture | opening title sequence | plagal cadence | pleasant | running | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Thirteen Women | 0:00:34 - Cast list on the pages of a book | book | cast list | common-chord modulation | funeral march | funereal | harmonic sequence | opening title sequence | relative key | somber | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Thirteen Women (Destiny) | 0:07:52 - Ursula talks to the swami | antagonist | common-chord modulation | conversing | destiny | establish character | fortune teller | harmonic sequence | leading lady | predicting | relative key | room | somber | swami | transcribed by ear |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender | 0:22:44 - Packaged-up food | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | common-chord modulation | detective | direct modulation | food | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | ordering | reporter | store | worker | working |
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