| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | La Parisienne (The King) | 1:06:08 - The children watch from the balcony | advance plot | arriving | ballroom | child | crowd | governess | king | leading lady | march | patriotic tune | regal | simulated source music |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Funereal) | 2:14:27 - Henriette leaves the Duke | conversing | death bed | death scene | detective | duke | dying | funeral march | leading lady | leading man | Neapolitan | parallelism | pedal tone | prisoner | questioning | room | sad | sigh gesture | soldier | suspect |
| 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 (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 |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Funebre | 1:32:03 - Jerry and Rocky walk down the hall | climax | dirge | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | marching | police | priest | prison | somber | tense | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Funebre (Sigh) | 1:33:19 - Rocky heads towards electric chair | added-note chord | climax | dirge | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | marching | priest | prison | sigh gesture | somber | tense | walking |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:45 - Jonathan follows Dr. Einstein | advance plot | altered dominant | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | digging | dissonant bass | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | on-screen music | patriotic tune | pc set | plotting | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | tone cluster | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | When Johnny Comes Marching Home | 0:49:45 - Dr. Einstein spies on Teddy | advance plot | brother | crazy person | criminal | dark | digging | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | on-screen music | patriotic tune | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Dark) | 0:50:14 - Jonathan and Dr. Einstein watch Teddy dig | advance plot | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | digging | dissonant bass | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | on-screen music | patriotic tune | room | source and scoring overlap | watching | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:50:20 - Jonathan and Dr. Einstein talk | advance plot | brother | crazy person | criminal | digging | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | Neapolitan | on-screen music | parallel 63s | patriotic tune | pedal tone | plotting | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Funeral March | 0:55:21 - Teddy carries the body down the stairs | advance plot | brother | carrying | chromatic scale | corpse | crazy person | darkness | diminution | dirge | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | funeral march | linear chromaticism | ominous | ostinato | room | tritone | walking |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Knock Out) | 0:38:33 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing | boxing ring | common-chord modulation | double exposure | falling | march | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Miramar | 1:00:44 - Danny prepares for a fight | advance plot | boxer | conversing | leading man | locker room | manager | march | parallel double period | preparing | source music | upbeat |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Office) | 0:51:05 - The guard enters to talk to Mark | comedy | dramatic | hero | leading man | marching | police | reformatory | walking |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Marcia Grotesque | 1:01:48 - Johnnie talks to another boxer | advance plot | altered dominant | comical | conversing | hero | leading man | march | mode mixture | room |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Whip | 1:10:16 - People at the carnival | arena | boxer | cheerful | entering | excited | fighting | hero | leading man | march | sitting | source music | sport scene | teenager |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | World's Record | 1:13:45 - Boxers prepare for the fight | arena | boxer | cheerful | conversing | excited | hero | leading man | march | parallel double period | source music | sport scene |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Spirit of Independence | 1:14:53 - Johnnie marches into the ring | arena | cheerful | excited | hero | leading lady | leading man | march | preparing | source music | sport scene | teenager |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Funereal) | 1:52:39 - Clementi leaves his office and exits the building | dark | flashback | funereal | march |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Law | 0:23:19 - Guard taking Barry to a shed | arriving | conflict | construction site | convict | dark | guard | leading man | march | stinger | walking |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Marching | 0:10:10 - Inmates marching | establish location | leading man | march | marching | parallelism | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Marching | 0:12:27 - Inmates marching | establish character | march | marching | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | somber |
| The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau | 0:04:09 - Agents working in a large FBI office | FBI | march-like |
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 |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March B | 0:04:51 - Cast list | cast list | FBI | lyrical | march | noble |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Noble) | 0:05:08 - Cast list | cast list | FBI | march |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Wreckage) | 0:05:25 - Agents work through airplane wreckage in a warehouse | FBI | investigation | march | warehouse | wreckage |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Patriotic) | 0:13:40 - Chip gestures towards a photograph | FBI | march | noble |
The FBI Story (1959) | Klansmen | 0:33:28 - Klan marches down the street carrying torches and burning crosses | flashback | KKK | march |
The FBI Story (1959) | Klansmen (Agitato) | 0:34:58 - Newspaper headline attacking the Klan | flashback | KKK | march | newspaper | office |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Fanfare) | 0:56:18 - Chip walks out the door | FBI | flashback | hero | march |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Shadow) | 1:33:05 - J. Edgar Hoover apprehends Alvin Karpis before his attempted murder | FBI | flashback | march |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Pomposo) | 2:28:22 - The FBI crest | closing credits | crest | FBI | march |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist | 0:00:09 - Title of film | bold | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dark | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | hallway | march | opening title sequence | oscillation | parallelism | stranger | title of film | tritone oscillation | zoom in |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent | 0:00:26 - Starring list | approaching | bold | cast list | dark | dramatic | fanfare | hallway | march | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | ostinato | polychord | sequence | starring list | stranger | tone cluster | tritone oscillation | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia Misterioso) | 0:01:17 - Agent walks to the phone | agent | airport | arriving | calling | conversing | dialing | establish setting | march | mysterious | ostinato | polychord | sequence | telephone | tense | tone cluster | tritone oscillation | typewriter | typing | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Molto Misterioso) | 0:02:57 - Mason gets his assignment | agent | conversing | establish setting | map | march | mysterious | office | ostinato | planning | polychord | sequence | tense | tone cluster | tritone oscillation | working |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer | 0:00:14 - Shadows move across the screen behind the cast list | cast list | Dorian mode | folk-like | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street | title of film |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Bridge) | 0:00:46 - Shadows move across the screen behind the cast list | 9th chord | cast list | informer | march | marching | mysterious | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Dublin) | 0:01:03 - Title card establishes the setting in Dublin, Ireland | 9th chord | 11th chord | establish setting | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | nun | opening title sequence | religious symbolism | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | street | title card | tritone substitution |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green | 0:07:32 - Frankie looks at reward poster with his picture on it | 64 chord | dark | establish character | folk song | hero | Irish | marching | mickey-mousing | mysterious | source music | street | thinking |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Drunk) | 1:03:23 - Gypo walks down the street drunk | advance plot | antagonist | drunk | leading lady | leading man | marching | rebel | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Gypo Hides) | 1:20:38 - Gypo sees British soldiers marching | antagonist | hiding | leading man | marching | running | street | tense | traitor | transition |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace | 0:01:23 - Priest in a prison | arriving | conversing | dark | establish character | funeral march | funereal | guard | leading man | priest | prison | prisoner | solemn | somber | walking | warden |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Funeral March | 0:01:12 - A funeral march | altered dominant | brass band | classical music | crowd | establish place | funeral | funeral march | marching | mode change | on-screen music | parallel 63s | pedal tone | performer | secondary dominant | somber | source music | street | watching |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby + Funeral March | 0:02:32 - Vergie in her jail cell | classical music | combination of themes | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | plagal cadence | pondering | prison | prisoner | sequence | somber | source music | suspect | watching |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Semper Fidelis | 0:30:32 - A march is played outside | advance plot | celebrating | cheering | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | crowd | gossiper | leading lady | leading man | march | patriotic tune | politician | source music | spouse | street | upbeat |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Funeral March | 1:17:18 - John's funeral procession | altered dominant | brass band | classical music | crowd | establish place | funeral | funeral march | marching | on-screen music | parallel 63s | somber | source music | street | watching |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Ending) + Funeral March (Ending) | 1:18:06 - Vergie in her jail cell | classical music | combination of themes | crying | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | prisoner | somber | suspect |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad | 0:00:09 - Title of the film | 9th chord | appoggiatura | cast list | common-tone diminished 7th | fanfare | jaunty | march-like | opening title sequence | parallel period |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (End Title) | 1:41:09 - End cast | 9th chord | added-note chord | common-tone diminished 7th | end title sequence | fanfare | jaunty | march-like | mode mixture | plagal cadence |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Heart of Oak | 0:01:02 - View of London ("England, 1914") | 64 chord | added-note chord | bold | British | card | England | establish location | familiar tune | folk song | London | march | pedal tone | setting |
| White Heat (1949) | Police Raid | 1:43:09 - Gangster acting as lookout | action scene | arriving | factory | fugitive | gangster | leading man | looking | march | murderer | police | running | rushing | tense | undercover agent |
| Ladies of the Jury (1932) | El Capitan March | 0:28:41 - Jurors deliberate | advance plot | conversing | juror | jury room | leading lady | march | radio | source music | upbeat |
| Secrets of the French Police (1932) | Beau Ideal | 0:00:15 - A newspaper is opened to a detective story | cast list | march | newspaper | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | upbeat |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Thirteen Women | 0:00:34 - Cast list on the pages of a book | book | cast list | common-chord modulation | funeral march | funereal | harmonic sequence | opening title sequence | relative key | somber | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Horoscope) | 0:10:57 - Ursula looks at the horoscope | advance plot | antagonist | appoggiatura | horoscope | leading lady | march-like | mysterious | reading | room | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Dark) | 0:11:28 - Ursula reads a horoscope | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | dark | funeral march | horoscope | leading lady | reading | room | transcribed by ear |
| Headline Shooter (1933) | King Kong March | 1:00:16 - The End | augmented sixth chord | end title | march | mode mixture | reused recording | The End | upbeat |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Gridiron Flash | 0:00:24 - Cast list | added-note chord | cast list | countermelody | march | opening title sequence | starring list | title of film | upbeat |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Dunlap Commandery | 0:43:59 - Eddie in his room | advance plot | cheering | leading man | march | room | thinking | upbeat |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Gridiron Flash | 0:45:19 - Eddie in his room | added-note chord | advance plot | cheering | countermelody | leading man | march | room | upbeat |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Marching Band Tune | 0:56:19 - A marching band | advance plot | athlete | football | football game | march | playing | upbeat |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Gridiron Flash | 1:02:36 - The scoreboard | added-note chord | athlete | celebrating | countermelody | crowd | football | football game | leading lady | leading man | march | resolution | The End | upbeat |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Walking | 0:36:42 - Zaroff walks to the door | action scene | agitated | castle | closing | count | leading man | marching | mickey-mousing | mute | preparing | prisoner | servant | tense | villain | walking |
| Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) | Doorman Dance | 0:42:01 - Dancers come on stage | dancer | dance scene | dancing | fanfare | marching | night club | source music | upbeat |
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) | Whistling the Blues Away (Dancing) | 0:43:54 - Dancers dancing | dancer | dance scene | dancing | marching | night club | source music | upbeat |
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