| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Bros. shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | fragmentation | main title | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | WB shield |
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) | Cauldron 2 | 0:00:27 - Cast list | 9th chord | beaker | bubbling | cast list | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | ostinato | title of film |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | WB shield |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster | 0:00:15 - Main title | bold | cast list | dark | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence | sequence | title of film |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Reformatory) | 0:05:04 - Sign: "Society for Juvenile Delinquents" | establish character | main title | Neapolitan | prisoner | reformatory | serious | sign | somber | teenager |
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) | The Gangster (Maestoso) | 0:08:07 - Discharge papers from the penitentiary | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | ledger | main title | marching | mickey-mousing | montage | prison | prisoner | serious | solemn | transition | writing |
| Caged (1950) | Caged | 0:00:08 - Main title and cast list projected inside of a police van | cast list | main title | opening title |
| Crime School (1938) | Signature | 0:00:00 - Warner Brothers shield | bold | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | WB shield |
Crime School (1938) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Starring and cast list | 9th chord | cast list | dissonant bass | dominant pedal | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | tense | title of film |
Crime School (1938) | Sue | 0:00:37 - Mugshots of main characters | blues | bluesy | main title | mode mixture | mug shot | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues | 0:01:16 - New York City streets | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | blues | cut from film | establish setting | fun | Gershwinesque | main title | setting | street | upbeat |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | dissonant bass | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring list | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | pedal tone | starring list | tense | title of film |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy | 0:00:25 - Director credit | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | bold | cast list | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | heroic | main title | opening title sequence | tritone substitution |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A | 0:01:47 - Death of a Scoundrel over Clementi's dead body | dark | death | main theme | main title |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi B | 0:02:06 - Credits | death | main theme | main title |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Maestoso) | 0:02:34 - Credits | dark | death | main theme | main title |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Transition | 0:00:09 - Starring list | dissonant bass | dramatic | dust | main title | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | transition |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening A) | 0:00:21 - Main title | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | dissonant bass | dust | main title | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | romantic | title of film |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening B) | 0:00:49 - Cast list | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | blues | bluesy | cast list | dust | main title | mode mixture | opening title sequence |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening A2) | 0:01:04 - Cast list | 9th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | dust | main title | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | romantic |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Opening B2) | 0:01:18 - Cast list | cast list | main title | mode mixture | opening title sequence | romantic |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Lead actors | bold | main title | opening title sequence | prison | starring list | transition |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn A | 0:00:14 - Title of film | augmented triad | cast list | dark | diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | prison | title of film |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn B | 0:00:29 - Cast list | cast list | main title | opening title sequence | prison | tragic |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn B (Augmented) | 0:00:36 - Cast list | augmentation | bleak | cast list | countermelody | dark | diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | prison |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Symbol | 0:04:25 - The FBI crest and the title of the film | fanfare | FBI | main title | march-like | starring list |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A | 0:04:33 - Film title, main cast | bold | cast list | FBI | heroic | main title | march |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist | 0:00:09 - Main title comes in one word at a time over long, dark hallway | hallway | main title | march |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent | 0:00:21 - Cast list over long, dark hallway | cast list | hallway | main title | march | mickey-mousing | tritone | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia) | 0:01:17 - Agent walks to the phone | agent | airport | main title | march | mickey-mousing | telephone | tritone | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia) | 0:02:57 - Mason gets his assignment | agent | FBI | main title | march | office |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Discovered) | 0:38:46 - Eve reads Matt's letter | letter | main title | tense | tritone |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Sneaking) | 0:57:54 - Matt and Eve see the commie agents | agent | main title | sneaking | tritone |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia) | 0:58:12 - The communist agents go upstairs | agent | main title | sneaking | tritone | up | upstairs |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Tense) | 0:59:26 - FBI man holds gun on commie agents | FBI | main title | tritone |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Misterioso) | 0:59:50 - Matt and Eve escape and drive away | agent | alley | escaping | main title |
| Illegal (1955) | Scott (Bold) | 0:00:40 - Policemen working in an office | main title | police office | starring list |
Illegal (1955) | Police Car | 0:00:54 - Police car speeds out of the station; cast list | cast list | irregular meter | main title | police car | speeding |
Illegal (1955) | Scott (Security Guard)) | 0:01:15 - Police at the murder scene | main title |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | fragmentation | main title | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | WB shield |
| The Informer (1935) | RKO Tower | 0:00:02 - RKO radio tower | main title | opening title sequence | radio tower | RKO tower | transcribed by ear |
| The Letter (1940) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB Shield | bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
The Letter (1940) | Letter | 0:00:08 - Bette Davis | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | tense | yearning |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie | 0:00:11 - The Letter | 9th chord | changing meter | main title | minor-major 7th chord | opening title sequence | oscillation | sequence | suspension | tense | title of film |
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 (Rubato) | 0:00:44 - Cast list | 9th chord | cast list | changing meter | main title | minor-major 7th chord | opening title sequence | oscillation | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension | tense |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | fanfare | main title |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring list and lightning strikes | main title | starring list |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Lightning 1 | 0:00:26 - Title card, cast list and prison | cast list | main title | title of film |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Lightning 2 | 0:00:41 - Title card, cast list and prison | cast list | main title |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Lightning 3 | 0:01:02 - Title card, cast list and prison | cast list | main title |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Introduction) | 0:00:00 - The WB shield | 9th chord | appoggiatura | fanfare | jaunty | main title | opening title sequence | starring list | WB shield |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | fanfare | main title | opening title sequence | WB shield |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful | 0:00:07 - Credits, including main title | Beverly Hills | cast list | house | main title | opening title sequence | ostinato | serious | starring list | title of film |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Signature | 0:00:00 - WB shield | added-note chord | chromatic mediant | fanfare | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | phrase extension | starring list | WB shield |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Foreboding) | 0:00:09 - Main title | classical music | dark | familiar tune | Haydn | main title | mode change | opening title sequence | quotation | title of film |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Transition | 0:00:18 - Book pages showing main cast | augmented sixth chord | cast list | chromatic scale | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | tense |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Grandioso) | 0:00:26 - Book pages showing main cast | altered dominant | cast list | familiar tune | folk song | German | hopeful | main title | mode mixture | opening title sequence | parallel period | quotation | suspension |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Max Steiner | 0:00:53 - Max Steiner's name | augmented sixth chord | bold | cast list | common-chord modulation | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | main title | opening title sequence |
| White Heat (1949) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Train coming out a tunnel | main title | starring list | train |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat A | 0:00:16 - Main title over an approaching train | main title | train |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat B | 0:00:32 - Cast list and an aerial view of the city | cast list | city | main title |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat A (Maestoso) | 0:00:48 - Cast list and an aerial view of the city | cast list | city | main title |
| The Public Defender (1931) | RKO Tower | 0:00:00 - Beeping RKO radio tower | main title | opening title sequence | radio tower | RKO tower | transcribed by ear |
The Public Defender (1931) | Public Defender | 0:00:14 - Title and balancing scales (in motion) | balancing | deceptive resolution | main title | opening title sequence | romantic | scale | sequence | starring list | transcribed by ear |
The Public Defender (1931) | Violence | 0:00:41 - Cast list and balancing scales | balancing | cast list | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | tense | transcribed by ear | violence |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery | 0:00:45 - Cast list and balancing scales | augmented triad | balancing | cast list | chromaticism | main title | mysterious | mystery | opening title sequence | pc set | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
| Hell’s Highway (1932) | RKO Tower | 0:00:00 - Beeping RKO radio tower | beeping | main title | opening title sequence | radio tower | RKO tower | transcribed by ear |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | RKO Tower | 0:00:00 - Beeping radio tower | beeping | main title | opening title sequence | radio tower | RKO tower | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun (Introduction) | 0:00:15 - Title and cast list on placards | 9th chord | cheerful | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | sequence | syncopation | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun | 0:00:43 - Title and cast list on placards | ABAC structure | cheerful | main title | opening title sequence | syncopation | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun (Transition) | 0:01:08 - Cast list | excited | main title | opening title sequence | pedal tone | transcribed by ear |
| 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 |
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