| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:07:26 - Rocky talks with his lawyer | advance plot | conversing | dark | dissonant bass | gangster | lawyer | leading man | mysterious | prison | prisoner | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | When a Prince of a Fella Meets a Cinderella | 0:16:49 - Rocky goes to a night club | advance plot | cheerful | conversing | gambling | gangster | lawyer | leading man | night club | parallel double period | popular music | source music |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Monday Morning | 0:18:15 - Rocky talks to Frazier in his office | advance plot | cheerful | conversing | gangster | lawyer | leading man | popular music | room | source music |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | So Help Me (If I Don't Love You) | 0:19:36 - Rocky leaves the nightclub | advance plot | conversing | gangster | lawyer | leading man | popular music | room | sentimental | source music |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Car slowing down | 0:42:10 - Car slows down | advance plot | arriving | car | gangster | garage | lawyer | linear chromaticism | mysterious | sequence | slowing | stopping |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Stickup | 0:42:30 - Rocky points a gun at Frazier | 64 chord | advance plot | assaulting | dramatic | gangster | garage | grabbing | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing |
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) | Saving Myself For You (I've Been) | 1:02:30 - Rocky and Laury at a night club | AABA structure | advance plot | cheerful | club | drinking | gambling | gangster | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | source music |
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) | Mac gets shot | 1:16:35 - Mac gets shot and dies | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | room | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Frazier gets shot | 1:16:56 - Frazier gets shot and dies | agitated | casino | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Verdict | 0:08:19 - The verdict is delivered | banging | courtroom | courtroom scene | gavel | hero | judge | justice | lawyer | leading man | noble | parallelism | reporter | verdict |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Maestoso) | 1:26:31 - Dan reads a telegram about Field's death | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | reading | suicide | telegram | tragic | train | violent |
| Illegal (1955) | Restaurant | 0:04:33 - Mr. Scott talks to reporters after the trial | lawyer | reporters | restaurant | waiter |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:05:14 - Craig in his office | advance plot | arriving | augmented triad | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | pc set | pedal tone | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley Introduction (Extended 2) | 1:05:31 - Stanley in Craig's office | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic scale | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | reading | uneasy | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Extended) | 1:05:53 - Stanley talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | solemn | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Slowly) | 1:06:13 - Stanley talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | dissonant bass | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Triste) | 1:06:29 - Stanley talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Misterioso) | 1:06:47 - Stanley hesitates at the door | advance plot | fragmentation | hesitating | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | office | pc set |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley Introduction | 1:07:01 - Stanley talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic scale | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | manipulating | office | passionate |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley | 1:07:11 - Stanley talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | manipulating | office | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Slowly) | 1:07:19 - Stanley talks to Craig | advance plot | anxious | chromatic sequence | dissonant bass | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | manipulating | office | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Dark) | 1:07:32 - Stanley leaves | 9th chord | advance plot | dark | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | manipulating | office | uneasy |
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 |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:04 - Craig refuses Parry's case | conflict | conversing | denying | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | ominous | refusing | tritone oscillation | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Molto Accell) | 1:15:15 - Craig talks about Stanley | anxious | conflict | conversing | defending | denying | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | pc set | refusing | sigh gesture | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Molto Moderato) | 1:15:51 - Roy leaves | added-note chord | angry | conflict | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | leaving | office |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Slowly) | 1:16:07 - Craig reads a note | 9th chord | altered dominant | conflict | lawyer | leading man | note | office | sentimental | thinking | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Fast Driving (Tense) | 1:20:10 - Craig's car pulls up to the jail | arriving | car | car | conflict | conversing | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | oscillation | pc set | street | tense | underscoring | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Slowly 2) | 1:20:46 - Men playing checkers | checkers | conflict | criminal | dark | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | game | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | playing | prison | prisoner | somber | suspect | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:21:07 - Parry in his jail cell | 9th chord | conflict | conversing | criminal | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | somber | suspect | underscoring | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Minerva and Parry | 1:21:28 - Parry in his jail cell | 9th chord | 11th chord | blue note | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | conversing | criminal | foreign key modulation | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | prison | prisoner | somber | suspect | tender | testifying | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Minerva and Parry (Triste) | 1:22:39 - Parry talks to Stanley | 64 chord | conflict | conversing | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mode change | prison | prisoner | solemn | somber | suspect | testifying | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley Introduction (Extended 4) | 1:23:09 - Stanley and Craig leave the jail | 9th chord | car | conflict | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | leaving | street | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | London Bridge is Falling Down (Molto Expressivo) | 1:23:33 - Craig talks to Stanley | car | children's song | conflict | conversing | criminal | familiar tune | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | somber |
In This Our Life (1942) | London Bridge is Falling Down (Mysterious) | 1:23:45 - Craig and Stanley argue | 9th chord | car | children's song | conflict | conversing | criminal | familiar tune | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mysterious | ominous |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Agitato) | 1:25:21 - Craig talks to Stanley | agitated | climax | conversing | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | pc set | room | suspect |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) + South American Way | 1:25:34 - Stanley reacts | accusing | climax | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mother | mysterious | ominous | remembered source music | remembering | room | source and scoring overlap | source music | suspect | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Valse Triste) | 1:26:23 - Stanley confesses | 9th chord | altered dominant | appoggiatura | arguing | circle of fifths | climax | confessing | confession | criminal | crying | dramatic | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | room | suspect | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Slowly Extended) | 1:26:39 - Stanley confesses | 9th chord | agitated | arguing | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | confessing | confession | criminal | crying | dissonant bass | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mother | room | suspect |
In This Our Life (1942) | Expressivo (Extended) | 1:27:04 - Lavinia rises | added-note chord | arguing | chromatic scale | climax | criminal | emotional | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | pleading | retardation | room | suspect |
In This Our Life (1942) | Big Sweep (Subtle) | 1:27:23 - Stanley reacts | 9th chord | climax | conversing | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | pc set | plotting | room | suspect | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Extended) | 1:27:33 - Stanley goes upstairs | 9th chord | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | climax | conversing | criminal | crying | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | room | somber | suspect | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Love Theme (Gentle) | 1:27:58 - Roy talks to Craig | 9th chord | accusing | altered dominant | climax | conversing | criminal | crying | embracing | gentle | iii chord | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | room | sneaking | tender |
In This Our Life (1942) | Big Sweep | 1:28:57 - Stanley escapes | 11th chord | altered dominant | climax | criminal | dramatic | driving | escaping | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | pc set | room | underscoring | watching |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Driving Away) | 1:29:06 - Craig goes to the phone | agitated | calling | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | climax | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | pedal tone | room | telephone | walking |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Delicato) | 0:21:46 - Men admire needlepoint | advance plot | changing meter | conversing | delicate | foreign key modulation | gentle | home | lacework | lawyer | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | oscillation | polychord | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (The Story) | 0:22:26 - Leslie speaks with Howard | advance plot | changing meter | home | lawyer | leading lady | lying | oscillation | recounting | tense | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Letter (Sarcastic) | 0:22:41 - Leslie and Howard leave | advance plot | chromatic sequence | dissonant bass | home | lawyer | leading lady | leaving | mysterious | passionate | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Law Office | 0:24:33 - Sign for a law firm | city | justice | lawyer | noble | office | setting | sign | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Mysterioso) | 0:30:04 - Howard in his office | advance plot | augmented major 7th chord | lawyer | mysterious | office | oscillation | pc set | quartal chord | suspension | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Screwyoso 2) | 0:30:23 - Howard grabs the letter | advance plot | lawyer | letter | mysterious | office | sequence | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Lawyer) | 0:30:45 - Ong speaks to Howard | advance plot | Chinese | lawyer | leaving | mysterious | office | pc set | tritone |
The Letter (1940) | Waiting | 0:31:24 - Howard waits for Leslie | advance plot | lawyer | pacing | prison | tense | waiting | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tense) | 0:34:20 - Howard tells Leslie about the letter | 9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | suspenseful | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Deception | 0:34:35 - Leslie lies about the letter | chromatic scale | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:34:47 - Howard gives Leslie the letter | altered dominant | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | deception | denying | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:35:11 - Leslie reacts angrily to the letter | arguing | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Denial | 0:35:39 - Leslie denies writing the letter | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pivotal scene | prison | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Letter (Agitato) | 0:36:08 - Leslie talks to Howard | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Letter (Frantic) | 0:36:16 - Leslie admits to writing the letter | chromatic sequence | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:36:22 - Leslie explains why she wrote the letter | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pivotal scene | prison | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (The Story) | 0:36:42 - Leslie lies to Howard | changing meter | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | pivotal scene | prison | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:36:53 - Howard takes out the letter | deception | denying | lawyer | leading lady | letter | ominous | pivotal scene | prison | tense | tritone | tritone | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:37:07 - Howard reads the letter to Leslie | anxious | augmented triad | buildup | chromatic parallelism | fearful | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tragic) | 0:37:21 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | changing meter | climax | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Screwyoso) | 0:37:34 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | chromatic sequence | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Shimmery 3) | 0:37:54 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | sequential modulation | stinger | suspension | tense |
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 (Triste) | 0:38:57 - Howard helps Leslie recover | advance plot | calm | conversing | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | oscillation | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Con Moto) | 0:39:25 - Leslie asks Howard about the letter | advance plot | conversing | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Plotting) | 0:39:32 - Howard and Leslie plot their next move | 9th chord | advance plot | buildup | changing meter | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | minor-major 7th chord | ominous | oscillation | plotting | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Law Office (The Plea) | 0:40:00 - Howard asks Leslie to be honest | 9th chord | advance plot | anxious | artwork in score | chromatic sequence | conversing | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | refusing | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Despair) | 0:40:33 - Leslie despairs | advance plot | anxious | changing meter | conversing | despair | dissonant bass | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:40:57 - Leslie talks to Howard | advance plot | angry | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | deception | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | sequence | staring | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie | 0:41:12 - Howard says he will help Leslie | advance plot | appoggiatura | calm | chromatic mediant | crying | deception | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | sigh gesture | somber | suspension | tender |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (Triste) | 0:42:17 - Leslie and Howard talk about her husband | advance plot | appoggiatura | calm | chromatic mediant | crying | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | resolution | sigh gesture | somber | suspension | tender |
The Letter (1940) | Sociable | 0:48:42 - People having dinner | ABA structure | cheerful | conversing | deceptive resolution | dinner | Dorian mode | foreign key modulation | happy | home | husband | lacework | lawyer | leading lady | party | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Uneasy) | 0:49:41 - They discuss the trial | dinner | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | planning | tense | tone cluster | trial | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Sociable (Ending) | 0:49:58 - Pleasant conversation | cheerful | conversing | dinner | foreign key modulation | happy | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | reverse picardy |
The Letter (1940) | Lento Mysterioso | 0:50:37 - Leslie and Howard alone | advance plot | altered dominant | home | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | planning | sad | upper pedal tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:51:14 - Leslie talks to Howard | advance plot | altered dominant | dark | foreign key modulation | home | lawyer | leading lady | planning |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Ominous) | 0:51:41 - Howard gets up to leave | advance plot | call and response | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | home | lawyer | leading lady | ominous | stretto imitation | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond | 0:51:49 - Howard and Leslie alone | advance plot | Chinese | home | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | pacing | parallel fifths | pentatonic | waiting |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Lacework 2) | 0:52:07 - Leslie does her lacework | advance plot | changing meter | conversing | foreign key modulation | home | lacework | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | oscillation | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Ethereal) | 0:52:33 - Howard and Leslie talk | advance plot | chromatic sequence | conversing | home | lawyer | leading lady | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tragic) | 0:52:55 - Howard and Leslie talk | advance plot | changing meter | conversing | home | lawyer | leading lady | oscillation | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B | 0:53:10 - Howard and Leslie talk | advance plot | conversing | home | lawyer | leading lady | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Leaving) | 0:53:20 - Howard and Leslie leave the house | added-note chord | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | leaving | mysterious | plantation | sequence | sequential modulation | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Screwyoso) | 0:53:35 - Howard and Leslie walk away | lawyer | leading lady | leaving | oscillation | plantation | sequence | tense | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Grandioso) | 0:53:54 - Leslie approaches the car | antagonist | Chinese | Chinese | driving | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pedal tone | pentatonic | plantation | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Chinese Quarter | 0:54:15 - The car enters the Chinese Quarter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | driving | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | leading lady | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | setting | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Chinese Shop | 0:55:30 - Howard and Leslie look around | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | layering | leading lady | Lydian mode | mirroring | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | polytonality | quintal chord | tense | transition | waiting | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Mysterioso) | 0:56:29 - Howard and Leslie wait in the shop | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | exotic | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | pentatonic | shop | tense | transition | waiting |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Dagger) | 0:57:04 - Leslie looks at a Chinese dagger | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | dagger | exotic | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | pentatonic | polytonality | shop | tense | transition | waiting |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Slowly) | 0:57:27 - Howard and Leslie walk into the back room | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | conflict | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | pentatonic | quintal chord | shop | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 0:59:08 - Mrs. Hammond enters through the glass curtain | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | curtain | entering | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Glass Curtains | 1:00:13 - Leslie faces Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | paying | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie + Glass Curtains | 1:01:27 - Leslie removes her shawl | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B + Glass Curtains | 1:01:57 - Leslie approaches Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 1:02:21 - Leslie faces Mr. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Contempt) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:40 - Leslie stoops down to pick up the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | contempt | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | stooping | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Dark) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:50 - Leslie looks at the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | dark | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Solemn) + Glass Curtains | 1:03:08 - Leslie and Howard leave | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | solemn | staring | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Sociable | 1:09:09 - Leslie and Robert meet with friends | 64 chord | celebrating | dinner music | drinking | foreign key modulation | happy | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | party | pump-up modulation | reverse picardy |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Restless) | 1:14:42 - Robert asks about the letter | arguing | conflict | fragmentation | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | lying | major 7th chord | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Wild) | 1:14:57 - Robert waits for a response | 9th chord | arguing | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | conflict | distress | fragmentation | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | lying | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Distress | 1:15:08 - Robert confronts the lawyer | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | distress | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Molto Agitato) | 1:15:28 - Robert argues with Leslie | arguing | chromatic parallelism | conflict | distress | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:45 - Robert asks to see the letter | arguing | augmented triad | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pc set | sequence | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Robert and Leslie (Tragic) | 1:16:14 - Leslie tells Howard to give Robert the letter | conflict | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | reading | somber | 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) | Mrs. Hammond (Confession) | 1:17:35 - Leslie confesses to Robert | Chinese | confessing | conflict | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | recounting | serious | somber | tritone oscillation |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 1:17:52 - Leslie confesses to Robert | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | ostinato | recounting | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tragic) | 1:17:59 - Leslie confesses to Robert | changing meter | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Ethereal) | 1:18:13 - Leslie confesses to Robert | chromatic sequence | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence |
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) | Robert and Leslie (Mournful) | 1:19:00 - Robert cries after hearing the confession | conflict | crying | crying gesture | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | love theme | mournful | murder | pedal tone | retardation | sad | suspension |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Stride Piano | 0:03:20 - Larry arrives at the party | establish character | jazz | lawyer | leading lady | on-screen music | party | sister | source music | upbeat |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Deep Night | 0:05:47 - Roger argues with Paula | AABA structure | antagonist | arguing | establish character | lawyer | leading lady | on-screen music | party | sister | somber | source music |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Oh But I Do | 0:32:27 - Ladies talk at a restaurant | AABA structure | advance plot | calm | conversing | husband | lawyer | leading lady | on-screen music | restaurant | sister | source music | transition | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Deep Night | 0:35:15 - Larry, Chris, and Bob at a restaurant | AABA structure | advance plot | calm | conversing | husband | lawyer | leading lady | on-screen music | restaurant | source music | transition | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising) | 0:43:06 - Larry walks into his office | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | law office | lawyer | office | ostinato | sequence | transition | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:43:21 - Lady talks to Larry | advance plot | conversing | law office | lawyer | office | pedal tone | tense | underscoring |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ominous) | 0:43:39 - Secretary makes a call | advance plot | dialing | law office | lawyer | monophonic | office | ominous | phone call | sinister | spinning |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ostinato) | 0:50:56 - Chris leaves Larry's office | advance plot | exiting | law office | lawyer | leading lady | office | pedal tone | somber |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Attorney (Doorbell) | 0:53:31 - Chris takes off her jacket | advance plot | arriving | enharmonic respelling | heroic | lawyer | leading lady | room | stinger | surprise |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ominous) | 1:09:06 - Chris on the phone | advance plot | lawyer | leading lady | monophonic | office | phone call | room | tense | thinking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Attorney | 1:09:14 - Larry drives to the art shop | 64 chord | deceptive resolution | driving | heroic | lawyer | street | transition |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising) | 1:09:33 - The art shop is locked | lawyer | ostinato | parallelism | sequence | shop | tense | transition | worrying |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (The Trial) | 1:25:17 - A woman in the courtroom | chromatic wedge | climax | courtroom | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | hurrying | knife | lawyer | montage | prosecuting | prosecutor | rushing | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Distressed) | 1:41:24 - Larry talks with Bob | 9th chord | conversing | foreign key modulation | husband | lawyer | ostinato | pc set | resolution | room | somber | wife |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Leaving) | 1:42:32 - Chris prepares to leave | 9th chord | conversing | husband | lawyer | mode mixture | ostinato | pedal tone | resolution | room | somber | wife |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Dolce) | 1:46:08 - Bob talks with Chris | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | common-chord modulation | conversing | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | hopeful | husband | lawyer | mode mixture | ostinato | peaceful | pedal tone | plagal cadence | resolution | resolution | romantic | room | triumphant | wife |
| State’s Attorney (1932) | When I am Dead | 0:12:59 - Tom sings to himself | advance plot | cheerful | humming | lawyer | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Blues (Swinging) | 0:43:46 - Jazz musicians playing in a club | club | conversing | dancing | daughter | jazz | lawyer | leading man | love interest | music scene | on-screen music | source music | upbeat |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Beer Glasses | 0:53:26 - Tom tunes his beer glasses to A | advance plot | bar | drunk | drunk | lawyer | leading man | on-screen music | source music | tuning |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Wedding March | 0:53:50 - Tom plays the Wedding March | advance plot | bar | drunk | drunk | lawyer | leading man | on-screen music | playing | source music |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Beer Glasses | 0:54:08 - Tom strikes a beer glass | advance plot | bar | drunk | drunk | lawyer | leading man | on-screen music | playing | source music |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Beer Glasses | 0:54:32 - Tom strikes a beer glass | advance plot | bar | drunk | drunk | lawyer | leading man | on-screen music | playing | source music |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Wonderful | 0:39:29 - Robert tells Dorothea goodbye | 11th chord | ABAC structure | added-note chord | advance plot | calm | club | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | meeting | self-borrowing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | When You're Far Away | 0:41:12 - Robert talks to Jerry | AABA structure | advance plot | club | conversing | lawyer | leading man | meeting | pleasant | source music | suspect |
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