All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Agitato | 0:06:49 - Henriette leaves the classroom | agitated | distressed | establish character | hurrying | leading lady | leaving | minister | principal | school | teacher | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Furioso) | 0:43:28 - The Duchess rushes out of the room | angry | child | despair | duchess | duke | governess | hurrying | illness | illness scene | leading lady | leading man | leaving | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Appassionato 2) | 1:46:00 - Henriette descends the staircase | anxious | descending | excited | hurrying | leading lady | not mickey-moused | room | stairs | transition | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:11 - Butch comes back | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | hurrying | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | store | temperature | tense | thief |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Crowd rushing | 0:41:09 - Crowd rushes to the crime scene | chromatic sequence | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | hurrying | mickey-mousing | running | street | 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) | Going down a ladder | 1:17:32 - Rocky goes down an escape ladder | agitated | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | descending | down | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hurrying | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas | 1:19:48 - Tear gas spreads throughout the room | agitated | breaking | breaking | breathing | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | quartal chord | running | shooting | smoke | street | tear gas | throwing | window |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pleading (Extended) | 1:21:00 - Jerry arrives on the scene | 9th chord | appoggiatura | arriving | chromatic sequence | circle of fifths | concerned | conflict | crowd | gun | gunshot | hurried | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | polychord | priest | pushing | street | yearning |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry + Tear Gas | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | quartal chord | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
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) | 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) | Chasing | 0:16:31 - Elaine runs off | bride | groom | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | light | love | love scene | running | secondary dominant | street |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Fast) | 1:32:11 - Einstein finds some wine | alcohol | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | hurrying | leading man | murderer | panicking | polychord | room | tense | torturing | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Hurrying | 0:15:09 - Rosa lights a fire | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | room | upbeat | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Grazioso) | 0:15:23 - Rosa gets a drink | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | room | upbeat | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Hurrying | 0:15:35 - Rosa carries a drink | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | room | upbeat | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:07 - Rosa gets up | advance plot | cafe | conversing | hurrying | leading lady | tense | underscoring | waitress |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Running (A Little Heavier) | 1:16:28 - Rosa heads downstairs | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | murderer | mysterious | plotting | room | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:21:04 - Marlowe runs to the house | action scene | antagonist | dramatic | hurrying | leading man | private eye | running | street | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running down | 0:21:13 - Feet running down the stairs | action scene | antagonist | descending | dramatic | hurrying | mickey-mousing | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 0:38:45 - Marlowe walks to a cab | car | car | driver | hurrying | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | taxi | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 0:39:41 - Marlowe walks back to the cab | hurrying | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | street | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running | 0:47:40 - Vivian enters the apartment building | hurrying | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | private eye | street | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 1:47:07 - Marlowe and Vivian make a plan | climax | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | planning | private eye | room | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Mechanical) | 0:54:46 - Boys get to work | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | altered dominant | boiler room | coal | danger | fire | fire | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | sequence | shoveling | smoke | teenager | temperature | temperature | working |
Crime School (1938) | Boiler Overheating | 0:55:31 - Danger as the boiler gets really hot | action scene | arguing | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | linear chromaticism | mechanical | pc set | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | worker | working |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Rushing | 0:24:26 - Bridget hurries to gather her things to find Clementi | flashback | hurrying | rushing |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | The Chase | 0:24:42 - Man chases after Clementi | chasing | flashback | hurrying | rushing |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Action) | 1:56:11 - Chip and George rush to destroy their equipment | flashback | hurrying |
The FBI Story (1959) | Escape | 1:56:43 - Chip, Mario, and George quickly pack up and rush out | flashback | hurrying | running | rushing |
The FBI Story (1959) | Escape (Descending) | 1:56:53 - The men run away from camp | flashback | hurrying | running | rushing |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Running) | 1:57:49 - Men rush across the bridge | bridge | escaping | flashback | hurrying | running | rushing |
The FBI Story (1959) | Escape (Descending) | 1:58:03 - Mario turns around on the bridge and goes back | bridge | escaping | flashback | hurrying | running | rushing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Agitato) | 0:37:11 - Lane goes to confront Titus | agitated | angry | chromatic sequence | hurrying | leading lady | self-borrowing | street | transition | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Agitato | 0:39:09 - Lane storms off angrily | agitated | angry | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | hurrying | leading lady | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Walking) | 0:39:17 - Lane storms off angrily | agitated | angry | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | hurrying | leading lady | mickey-mousing | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | walking |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:58:48 - Bessie walks through the market | | agitated | chase scene | conductor score | dramatic | floozy | gangster | hurrying | investigator | leading man | mysterious | street | tense | walking |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Speeding | 1:14:21 - Policeman driving | car | climax | dramatic | driving | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | police | reporter | rushing | singer | tense | wife | yelling |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Candy (Molto Marcato) | 1:14:49 - Gun in a glove compartment | car | climax | dark | double-cross | driving | gun | hurrying | husband | revenge | rushing | widow |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Whiskey) | 0:20:46 - Gypo enters a pub | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | entering | hurrying | leading man | mysterious | pub | Scotch snap |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Bold) | 0:25:26 - Gypo storms off down the street | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | bold | determined | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | Scotch snap | street | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Walking Fast) | 0:30:13 - Gypo storms off down the street | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | hurrying | leading man | Scotch snap | street | tense | walking |
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) | 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 |
Key Largo (1948) | Hurrying | 1:26:02 - Gangsters walk to the boat | advance plot | boss | dock | father | gangster | hostage | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | moll | tense | walking |
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 (Angry) | 1:18:21 - Mildred walks out of an argument | 9th chord | aggressive | angry | arriving | chromatic parallelism | conflict | heroine | hurrying | leading lady | leaving | Neapolitan | room | walking |
Kid Galahad (1937) | The Escape | 0:33:23 - Nick punches man on street | advance plot | boxer | car | hurried | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | street | transcribed by ear |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage 2) | 1:18:47 - Newspaper headline montage | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | climax | fanfare | foreign key modulation | heroic | hurrying | manager | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | room | syncopation |
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) | Unfaithful (Scandal) | 1:24:55 - Newspaper headlines about the murder | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | ostinato | radio | rushing | sequential modulation |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (The Trial) | 1:25:17 - Chris on trial | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | knife | lawyer | mirroring | montage | ostinato | polytonality | prosecuting | prosecutor | rushing | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 1:25:44 - Mrs. Tanner testifies | altered dominant | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | quartal chord | rushing | testifying | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:51 - Art shop owner testifies | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | rushing | testifying | tritone | underscoring | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Heavy) | 1:26:02 - Newspaper of Chris testifying | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | rushing |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Worried) | 0:22:57 - David hears Gerald crying | advance plot | boy | child | classical music | dark | familiar tune | father | fragmentation | Haydn | hero | home | hurrying | mode mixture | quotation | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Mirror | 1:34:10 - Hank writes out a quick message on the mirror | bathroom | gas station | hurrying | mirror | washroom | writing |
White Heat (1949) | Mirror | 1:34:34 - Hank finishes writing on the mirror and covers up the message with his jacket | bathroom | gas station | hurrying | mirror | washroom | writing |
White Heat (1949) | Police Raid | 1:43:09 - Bo Creel notices the police entering the building | hurrying | march |
The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter (Minor) | 1:34:44 - The porter goes to the get the right key | asylum | comedy | comical | hurrying | key | shuffling | walking | worker |
The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter | 1:35:10 - The porter returns to lock the door | asylum | comical | escape | escaping | hiding | hurrying | key | locking | shuffling | sneaking | walking | worker |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Hurrying | 0:22:00 - Mildred and William hurry off | advance plot | boat | hurried | hurrying | jumping | leading lady | leading man | transcribed by ear | up |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Mildred Waltz (Rushing) | 0:22:05 - Mildred and William leave | advance plot | boat | hurried | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | Neapolitan | transcribed by ear |