| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:42:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | on-screen text | romantic | sequential modulation | street |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Agitato 2 | 1:59:31 - Henriette is arrested | agitated | crowd | crying | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | headline | leading lady | leaving | mob | montage | newspaper | soldier | street | suspect | yelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Moderato) | 2:04:10 - Women in prison | double exposure | headline | leading lady | montage | newspaper | oscillation | pacing | prison | prisoner | solemn | suspect | walking |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Murder) | 1:10:49 - Montage of newspaper headlines | chromatic parallelism | corpse | dark | dissonant bass | fingerprints | headlines | investigating | montage | morgue | mortician | murder | newspaper | police | printing press | tense | triadic transformation |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 | 1:21:08 - Newspaper presses rolling | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | headlines | layering | montage | newspaper | obsessive | ostinato | printing press | step modulation |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Fingerprints) | 0:06:17 - Montage of juvenile detention and prison life | digging | dramatic | establish character | fingerprints | foreign key modulation | headline | leading man | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | sequence | serious | working |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Headlines) | 0:07:21 - Newspaper headline | dark | establish character | headline | main title | montage | mysterious | newspaper | octatonic scale | pedal tone | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | I've Got a Heartfelt of Music | 0:08:31 - People in the street | ABAC structure | cheerful | crowd | driving | headline | newspaper | radio | source music | street | transition | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Headlines | 1:10:28 - A montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | 42 chord | 64 chord | dramatic | foreign key modulation | headline | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | newspaper editor | newspaper office | spinning | zooming |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Newspaper Montage) | 0:45:04 - Newspaper headlines | augmentation | comforting | common-chord modulation | crying | double exposure | grandmother | headline | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | room | somber | spinning |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto) | 0:48:55 - Newspaper headlines | double exposure | fragmentation | headline | montage | mysterious | newspaper | sequential modulation | spinning | tense | thematic transformation |
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 |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Minor) + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Minor) | 1:15:51 - Newspaper headlines | combination of themes | conversing | double exposure | headline | minor-major 7th chord | montage | newspaper | police | preaching | priest | source to score | spinning | tense |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Headlines) | 0:38:25 - Sports news headlines | 9th chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | newspaper | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Burns and Company | 0:39:06 - Montage of dancing scenes | added-note chord | dance band | dancing | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | shadow | stage | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Resolution) | 0:39:10 - Montage of boxing scenes | 9th chord | added-note chord | boxing ring | chromatic mediant | double exposure | foreign key modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | resolution | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Printing Press | 0:14:10 - A printing press | 64 chord | dark | dissonant bass | fanfare | headline | heroic | mode change | montage | montage | motoric | newspaper | oscillation | printing press |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:38 - Car drives towards Joe and Mabel | added-note chord | barn | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | headlights | passerby | stinger | tone cluster | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Newspaper Montage) | 1:13:48 - Newspaper montage about Joe | courthouse | exciting | headlines | montage | montage | newspaper | printing press | street |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines | 0:41:50 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines 2 | 0:49:31 - Newspaper headline is shown | added-note chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Newspaper Fanfare (Extended) | 1:03:36 - Newspaper headline is shown | chromatic parallelism | fanfare | headline | justice | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | noble | zooming |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition (Extended) | 1:28:35 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 | 0:18:16 - A newspaper headline | chromatic parallelism | dark | headline | newspaper | politician | porch | self-borrowing | sheriff | throwing | transition | tritone |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Headline | 0:38:23 - Newspaper headline | advance plot | body | brash | dark | death | dock | headline | newspaper | stinger | transcribed by ear | violence |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Headline | 1:04:52 - Newspaper headline | action scene | double exposure | dramatic | headline | newspaper |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Strike | 0:43:53 - Newspaper headline | dramatic | headline | newspaper | polychord | stinger | strike | transition |
| Illegal (1955) | Startled | 1:04:38 - Ray is startled by a noise and rushes to the door | head turning | lighter | mickey-mousing | nervous | startled |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Packing) | 1:14:36 - Newspaper headline about the accident | 9th chord | appoggiatura | arriving | circle of fifths | conflict | conversing | headline | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | newspaper | office |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 0:32:03 - Gypo in rebel headquarters | advance plot | antagonist | burning | combination of themes | diminished 7th chord | fire | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | octatonic | rebel | rising | room | Scotch snap | tense | tone cluster |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Accused) | 0:38:40 - Rebel accuses Gypo of being the informer | 64 chord | advance plot | conversing | headquarters | parallelism | rebel | room | suspicion | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Mary | 0:38:47 - Rebels talk about Frankie's sister Mary | 64 chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | conversing | deceptive resolution | headquarters | love | mode mixture | rebel | romantic | room | Scotch snap |
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) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Bugle Call) | 0:39:25 - Rebels plan to watch Gypo | advance plot | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | headquarters | Irish | parallelism | rebel | room | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Dan and Mary (Descending) | 1:05:08 - Mary enters, looking for Dan | chromatic sequence | courtroom scene | dissonant bass | down | headquarters | hero | love interest | love theme | mickey-mousing | romantic | stairs | street | suspect | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Peter Mulligan | 1:05:37 - Peter Mulligan sits and holds a crucifix | courtroom | courtroom scene | folk-like | headquarters | mode mixture | room | somber | suspect | waiting |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Rebel Jury) | 1:05:48 - Camera pans to show all of the faces of the rebel jury | 64 chord | bold | courtroom | courtroom scene | familiar tune | fanfare | folk song | headquarters | judging | jury | meter change | mode mixture | noble | panning shot | patriotic | plagal cadence | rebel | room |
The Informer (1935) | Judges | 1:06:10 - Camera pans to the faces of the judges | courtroom | courtroom scene | deceptive resolution | headquarters | judge | judging | justice | noble | room |
The Informer (1935) | Falling down the stairs | 1:06:19 - Gypo falls down the stairs | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | courtroom scene | down | dramatic | falling | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | stairs | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Peter Mulligan | 1:07:25 - Mulligan cries | courtroom scene | headquarters | mode mixture | room | somber | suspect | waiting |
The Informer (1935) | Dan and Mary (Legato) | 1:07:46 - Gypo looks at Mary | antagonist | courtroom | courtroom scene | delicate | gentle | headquarters | leading man | pedal tone | room | sister | suspect | watching |
The Informer (1935) | Judges (Maestoso) | 1:08:01 - Gypo looks at the judges | 64 chord | chromatic scale | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | judge | judging | pedal tone | room | serious | somber | watching |
The Informer (1935) | Blind Man (Tribunal) | 1:08:08 - Gypo looks at the blind man | 64 chord | accusing | antagonist | blind man | chromatic scale | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | leading man | pedal tone | room | serious | suspect | watching |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:08:34 - Gypo accuses Peter | 64 chord | accusing | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | mickey-mousing | room | stinger | suspect | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Pleading | 1:08:57 - Peter defends himself | added-note chord | anxious | chromaticism | courtroom | courtroom scene | defending | headquarters | pleading | room | stinger | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Laughing) | 1:09:04 - Gypo laughs at Peter | accusing | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | bold | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | leading man | octatonic | room | serious | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (The Trial) + Blind Man (The Trial) | 1:15:13 - The rebels ask Gypo where he got the money | antagonist | axis of symmetry | blind man | combination of themes | courtroom | courtroom scene | fanfare | headquarters | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | mirroring | money | mysterious | questioning | room | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (The Trial) | 1:15:36 - The rebels ask Gypo about Katie | antagonist | axis of symmetry | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | mirroring | money | mysterious | questioning | room | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (The Trial) + The Informer (The Trial) | 1:15:40 - Dan asks "Who was the informer?" | antagonist | axis of symmetry | combination of themes | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | interrogating | interrogation | inversion | leading man | mirroring | money | mysterious | questioning | room | suspect | whole-tone |
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) | Katie (Despair) | 1:16:18 - Gypo confesses and cries | antagonist | climax | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | dissonant bass | guilt | headquarters | leading man | remorseful | room | sequence | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Tranquillo) | 1:16:35 - Gypo is taken away | antagonist | arresting | authentic cadence | climax | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | guilt | headquarters | hero | leading man | leaving | love interest | pleading | remorseful | room | traitor |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Ostinato) | 1:17:10 - Gypo waits in his cell while the rebels draw straws | advance plot | antagonist | dripping | escaping | gun | headquarters | leading man | mysterious | ostinato | prison | rebel | room | shooting | tense | traitor | whispering | worrying |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape | 1:19:46 - Gypo escapes and a chase ensues | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic scale | dramatic | escaping | headquarters | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | prison | rebel | room | running | traitor | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Risoluto) | 1:20:12 - Rebels plan to catch Gypo | advance plot | arriving | headquarters | octatonic | planning | rebel | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:20:24 - Rebels plan how to catch Gypo | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | bold | fanfare | headquarters | hurrying | planning | rebel | room | tense |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | News Office | 0:03:08 - Newspaper headlines about the trial | augmented sixth chord | conversing | diminished third chord | frantic | headline | newspaper | newspaper editor | office | telephone | transition |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Expressivo) | 0:03:24 - Newspaper editor on the phone | 9th chord | bus | conversing | dissonant bass | headline | newspaper | newspaper editor | office | telephone | transition | uneasy | worker |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Ominous) | 0:17:50 - Newspaper headline about Trev | 9th chord | 64 chord | actor | conversing | dark | establish character | headline | leading lady | leading man | newspaper | ominous | room | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Tense) | 1:22:36 - Liza wanders through the house | headlights | murderer | rancher | room | tense | thinking | turning point | uneasy | wandering |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Watch on the Rhine (Headlines) | 0:28:39 - Montage of newspaper headlines | bold | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | quintal chord |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Rule, Britannia! (Headlines) + La Marseillaise (Headlines) | 0:28:45 - Montage of newspaper headlines | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | pedal tone | polytonality |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | La Marseillaise | 0:28:48 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | altered dominant | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune |
| White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 | 0:29:18 - Newspaper headline | agent | bold | dark | dramatic | headline | leading man | newspaper | police station | transition | typing |
White Heat (1949) | Madness | 0:50:16 - Cody hears voices | agitated | blur | falling | gangster | hallucinating | hallucination | headache | headache effect | hearing voices | leading man | machine | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | unsettled |
White Heat (1949) | Headache | 0:50:31 - Heavy machinery | agitated | crawling | falling | gangster | headache | headache effect | leading man | machine | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | unsettled |
White Heat (1949) | Struggle | 0:50:50 - Cody crawls on the floor | agitated | crawling | falling | gangster | headache | headache effect | helping | leading man | machine | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | undercover agent | unsettled |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Headache) | 0:51:15 - Hank helps Cody | crawling | gangster | headache | helping | leading man | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:51:20 - Hank helps Cody | crawling | gangster | headache | helping | leading man | mad scene | massaging | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Cody rises | 0:51:40 - Hank helps Cody stand | gangster | headache | helping | leading man | mad scene | mickey-mousing | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | rising | tense | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Recovering) | 0:51:52 - Cody's headache subsides | gangster | headache | leading man | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | uneasy | waiting |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan | 0:50:24 - Newspaper headline | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | Renaissance music | somber |
The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan B | 0:50:44 - A carriage arrives | arriving | carriage | conversing | cousin | grand | headline | leading lady | mansion | montage | montage | newspaper | Renaissance music | servant | transition |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum | 1:01:26 - Laura suffers from a headache | aching | advance plot | agitated | conversing | cousin | headache | illness | illness effect | leading lady | pain | room | somber | tense | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum (Molto Expressivo) | 1:01:37 - Laura talks to Marian | advance plot | calm | conversing | cousin | headache | illness | leading lady | pain | recovering | recovery | room | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum (Dark) | 1:09:26 - Fosco talks to Sir Percival | aching | antagonist | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | plotting | prisoner | room |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum (Dolce) | 1:09:46 - Laura senses someone in the room | advance plot | appearing | calm | conversing | headache | illness | leading lady | pain | room | superimposed shot | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Poco Agitato) | 1:09:55 - The woman in white talks to Laura | advance plot | agitated | calm | conversing | gentle | headache | illness | leading lady | pain | room | superimposed shot | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Poco Agitato) | 1:11:46 - Laura mentions the woman in white | agitated | antagonist | conflict | conversing | criminal | doctor | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | room | servant | victim |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco | 1:12:05 - Fosco talks to the maid | agitated | anger | antagonist | conflict | criminal | doctor | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | room | searching | servant | tense | victim | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Molto Agitato) | 1:12:15 - Fosco walks | agitated | anger | antagonist | conflict | criminal | dark | doctor | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | room | rushing | searching | servant | tense | victim | walking |
| Hell’s Highway (1932) | Hikin' Jerry | 0:00:14 - Main titles and newspaper headlines | call and response | establish setting | guard | headline | montage | newspaper | opening title sequence | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
| 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 |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Fall of the Star | 0:17:05 - Newspaper headline about a suicide | common-tone diminished 7th | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | somber | transcribed by ear |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 1 | 0:33:37 - Sports montage | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 2 | 0:33:47 - Sports montage | athlete | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | running |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Gridiron Flash | 0:33:51 - Sports montage | countermelody | fanfare | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | upbeat |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Newspaper Montage | 0:32:22 - Newspaper headlines | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | ominous | tragic | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| Another Face (1935) | Courage + The Iron Door | 0:02:53 - Close up on the nurse | dramatic | establish character | gangster | headline | laughing | newspaper | nurse | office | pedal tone | reacting | reading | stinger | tense |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Decapitated Head | 0:31:35 - Eve sees a decapitated head | candle | castle | dramatic | head | jump scare | leading lady | leading man | screaming | stinger | turning point |
| Mara Maru (1952) | Cross (Religioso) | 1:28:41 - Manuelo sees the church | action scene | car | church | collapsing | cross | headlights | hiding | hymn-like | passionate | religious | scrambling | shadow | street | suspect | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:29:14 - Manuelo collapses | action scene | car | church | collapsing | cross | dark | headlights | scrambling | shadow | street | suspect | tense | underscoring | worker |
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