| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:04 - Doctor talks with the criminals | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | examining | gangster | leading man | ostinato | pc set | robbery | rooftop | tense | thief | underscoring | walking | working |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:00 - Rocky is trapped in a building | 42 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | fleeing | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | major 7th chord | police | running | sequence | stairwell | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up stairs | 1:19:27 - Rocky runs up the stairs | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | running | sequence | stairs | stairwell | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Triste) | 1:23:57 - Rocky uses Jerry as a hostage | 9th chord | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | coughing | dark | double-cross | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gangster | hostage | leading man | linear chromaticism | major 7th chord | menacing | polychord | priest | smoke | somber | street | tear gas | walking |
| 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) | Shadow Waltz (Dark) | 0:33:22 - Peggy talks with Danny | boat | chromatic sequence | conversing | dark | leading lady | leading man | love scene | major 7th chord | octatonic | somber |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:16:01 - Johnnie rushes inside | advance plot | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | minor-major 7th chord | newspaper | room | rushing | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Lying | 1:25:16 - Johnnie lies to Peggy about where he's going | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | climax | common-chord modulation | detective | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | lying | minor-major 7th chord | room | turbulent |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Triste) | 0:34:10 - Field tells Lane he is getting married | breaking up | breakup | café | chromatic sequence | dark | leading lady | leading man | major 7th chord | mysterious | self-borrowing | somber | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Mob | 1:28:20 - A mob forms outside of Lane's home | advance plot | angry | anxious | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | friend | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | mob | mobbing | ostinato | polyrhythm | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Climax) | 1:31:43 - Lane struggles with Titus | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Struggling | 1:31:47 - Close-up on the gun | climax | close up | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | oscillation | sheriff | struggling | tense |
| The Informer (1935) | Katie (Tragic) | 1:04:39 - Katie is left alone on the street | advance plot | appoggiatura | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | money | somber | street | worrying |
| 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 (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 |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Dark) | 0:16:09 - Men look at dead body | advance plot | augmented major 7th chord | changing meter | chromatic parallelism | creeping | dark | death | dissonant bass | investigating | murder | pc set | plantation | servant | shadow | sinister |
The Letter (1940) | Murder | 0:18:36 - Leslie reacts to the mention of murder | advance plot | eating | home | leading lady | major 7th chord | murder | mysterious | oscillation | stinger | tense |
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 (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 (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) | 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) | Leslie (Ending) | 1:34:28 - Camera pans to the moon | appoggiatura | glorious | minor-major 7th chord | moon | oscillation | plagal cadence | plantation | resolution |
The Letter (1940) | Letter | 1:34:41 - End credits | changing meter | closing credits | dramatic | end title sequence | minor-major 7th chord | oscillation | plagal cadence |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Monte is shot | 0:01:50 - Monte is shot | chromatic parallelism | collapsing | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | murder scene | room | staggering | tragic |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Pneumonia (Dying) | 0:55:24 - Kay passes away | 9th chord | child | chromatic parallelism | dark | death | death scene | doctor | dying | ex-husband | heroine | illness | leading lady | linear chromaticism | minor-major 7th chord | nurse | oscillation | patient | room | sick person | somber | tense | treating | turning point | waiting | watching |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sorrow) | 1:03:41 - Monte asks about Kay | advance plot | conversing | heroine | leading lady | love interest | minor-major 7th chord | mode mixture | restaurant | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Monte is shot 2 | 1:47:28 - Monte is shot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | collapsing | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | room | staggering | tragic |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Distressed) | 0:52:17 - Chris returns home | advance plot | arriving | forlorn | leading lady | maid | minor-major 7th chord | obsession | ostinato | room | tense |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Driving) | 1:10:31 - Bob rides in a car | car | driving | husband | minor-major 7th chord | ominous | street | transition | whole-tone |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Distressed) | 1:41:24 - Bob talks with Larry | conversing | husband | lawyer | minor-major 7th chord | ostinato | resolution | room | somber | wife |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (Tragico) | 0:14:05 - Leni talks with David | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | hero | heroine | minor-major 7th chord | quotation | room | tragic |
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