All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Valse | 1:03:32 - Montage of newspaper clippings | added-note chord | ballroom | cheerful | crowd | dancing | double exposure | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | montage | upbeat | waltz |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Invitation from the King | 1:03:46 - Invitation from the King | 11th chord | ballroom | bold | double exposure | duchess | duke | fanfare | leading lady | leading man | montage | pedal tone | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Ascending | 1:03:57 - The Duke and Duchess ascend | ascending | ballroom | chromatic sequence | double exposure | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | stairs | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:04:02 - A concert program | ballroom | bold | carriage | duchess | duke | fanfare | leading lady | leading man | montage | riding | romantic | sequential modulation |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:42:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | on-screen text | romantic | sequential modulation | street |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Mysterioso) | 1:42:50 - An apartment building | double exposure | half-diminished 7th chord | letter | montage | room | somber | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Agitato 2 | 1:59:31 - Henriette is arrested | agitated | crowd | crying | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | headline | leading lady | leaving | mob | montage | newspaper | soldier | street | suspect | yelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Moderato) | 2:04:10 - Women in prison | double exposure | headline | leading lady | montage | newspaper | oscillation | pacing | prison | prisoner | solemn | suspect | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Montage) | 0:33:03 - A news article about the doctor | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | Gershwinesque | jaunty | journal | montage | montage | newspaper | sequence | sign |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Murder) | 1:10:49 - Montage of newspaper headlines | chromatic parallelism | corpse | dark | dissonant bass | fingerprints | headlines | investigating | montage | morgue | mortician | murder | newspaper | police | printing press | tense | triadic transformation |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Dead) | 1:11:10 - Rocks's mugshot and fingerprints | dark | fingerprints | investigating | montage | morgue | mortician | mug shot | murder | police | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 | 1:21:08 - Newspaper presses rolling | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | headlines | layering | montage | newspaper | obsessive | ostinato | printing press | step modulation |
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) | Bootlegging | 0:06:46 - Bootlegging liquor | alcohol | boat | dock | establish character | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | sneaking | sneaky |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running and shooting | 0:06:52 - Police chase gangsters and Rocky shoots | agent | augmented triad | chasing | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | dramatic | establish character | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | quartal chord | running | shooting | street | zoom out |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Roulette | 0:07:01 - Roulette wheel spins | club | double exposure | establish character | frantic | gambling | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | parallelism | pedal tone | sequence | spinning |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Night Club Music | 0:07:05 - Rocky gambles in a nightclub | altered dominant | club | dancing | double exposure | drinking | establish character | frantic | gambling | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | pouring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Explosion | 0:07:16 - Building explodes after car drives by | bomb | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | establish character | explosion | gangster | mickey-mousing | montage | polychord | street | throwing |
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 |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:09:33 - Jerry leaves | 42 chord | gangster | leading man | leaving | money | montage | mysterious | priest | room | turning point |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:49 - Jerry talks to newspaper editor | conversing | diminution | leading man | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office | parallelism | priest | sign | tense |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Newspaper Editor | 1:10:09 - A newspaper editor accepts Jerry's story | accepting | conversing | heroic | leading man | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office | priest | secondary dominant |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Headlines | 1:10:28 - A montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | 42 chord | 64 chord | dramatic | foreign key modulation | headline | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | newspaper editor | newspaper office | spinning | zooming |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Hurrying | 1:10:54 - A newspaper editor gives orders to his men | assigning | chromatic scale | commanding | dissonant bass | hurried | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Flyers | 1:12:27 - Montage of flyers for a public meeting | 42 chord | agitated | chromatic sequence | dissonant bass | dropping | flyer | flying | montage | montage |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Marcia Maestoso) | 0:08:58 - Eddie dreams | applauding | common-chord modulation | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | fragmentation | leading man | meter change | montage | reciting | thematic transformation | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Comical) | 0:09:17 - Eddie's dream ends abruptly | comical | double exposure | dream sequence | explosion | laughing | leading man | montage | student | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Whole Tone) | 0:21:11 - A view of the city | dreaming | leading man | montage | pedal tone | room | somber | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Dream Sequence) | 0:27:44 - Time passes | double exposure | dream sequence | fragmentation | hectic | montage | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Dream Sequence 2) | 0:27:51 - Time passes | double exposure | dream sequence | hectic | montage | pedal tone | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Montage) | 0:29:57 - Eddie drinks | angry | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | drinking | fragmentation | gun | hectic | leading man | montage | pedal tone | room | sequence |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Listesso Tempo) | 0:30:13 - Eddie commits a crime | angry | chromatic scale | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | fragmentation | hectic | leading man | montage | room |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Moonbeams (Flashback) | 0:30:18 - Eddie dances with Flo | dance hall | dancing | double exposure | dream sequence | flashback | hectic | leading man | love interest | montage | room | waltz |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:30:25 - Eddie attacks boy | arguing | clock | dark | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | dream sequence | fighting | kissing | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | ominous | pedal tone | stinger | ticking |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Newspaper Montage) | 0:45:04 - Newspaper headlines | augmentation | comforting | common-chord modulation | crying | double exposure | grandmother | headline | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | room | somber | spinning |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto) | 0:48:55 - Newspaper headlines | double exposure | fragmentation | headline | montage | mysterious | newspaper | sequential modulation | spinning | tense | thematic transformation |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
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 |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Fishermen | 0:07:40 - Ship leaving the harbor | boat | boat | boating | calm | common-tone diminished 7th | departing | fisherman | fishing | floozy | leading lady | leading man | montage | not by Steiner | sailor | tense | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
Caged (1950) | Prison Alarm | 0:32:00 - Ringing prison alarm | agitated | alarm | alarm effect | bell | double exposure | dramatic | guard | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | waking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale | yelling |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Expressivo) | 0:32:12 - The prison laundry | alarm | augmented sixth chord | augmented triad | bell | double exposure | dramatic | guard | leading lady | metric displacement | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | roll call | working |
Caged (1950) | Prison Alarm | 0:32:22 - Ringing prison alarm | agitated | alarm | alarm effect | bell | double exposure | dramatic | eating | guard | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | waking | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:30 - Marie in the prison cafeteria | alarm | alarm effect | bell | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | eating | fanning | guard | heat | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pc set | prison | prisoner | underscoring | whole-tone scale |
Caged (1950) | Prison | 0:32:40 - Marie working in the prison laundry | 9th chord | double exposure | dramatic | leading lady | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | suspension | working |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:47 - Marie working in the prison laundry | alarm | alarm effect | augmented sixth chord | bell | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | quick cuts | underscoring | working |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Dark) | 0:32:55 - Marie's medical report | augmented sixth chord | dark | double exposure | infirmary | leading lady | medical report | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | working |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 2 | 0:29:44 - Montage of Philip's escape | boat | dark | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | parallelism | prisoner | transcribed by ear | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Montage) | 0:02:18 - A montage of New York City scenes | added-note chord | boat | bridge | car | chromatic parallelism | city | conversing | Dutch angle | establish setting | excited | fragmentation | montage | old man | panning shot | police | pump-up modulation | soliloquy | train |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Snake) | 0:02:35 - A montage of New York City scenes | 13th chord | 64 chord | altered dominant | bridge | chromatic sequence | city | conversing | countermelody | double exposure | Dutch angle | establish setting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | grand | montage | old man | police | snake effect | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | The Words Are in My Heart | 0:29:31 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | augmented triad | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | gentle | leading lady | montage | source music | waltz |
City for Conquest (1940) | Original Rhumba | 0:29:38 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | rhumba | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Original Bolero | 0:29:43 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | bolero | chromatic mediant | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Jalousie | 0:29:51 - Peggy dances with Murray | added-note chord | applause | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | montage | source music | tango | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Original Foxtrot | 0:29:57 - Peggy dances with Murray | applause | common-tone diminished 7th | crowd | dance hall | dancer | dancing | double exposure | foxtrot | leading lady | montage | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Galop | 0:31:21 - Montage at an amusement park | amusement park | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | double exposure | excited | linear chromaticism | montage | neon light |
City for Conquest (1940) | Swinging | 0:31:32 - An amusement park ride | amusement park | excited | mickey-mousing | montage | neon light | swinging |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 1 (Short) | 0:34:25 - A rushing train | added-note chord | hurried | montage | ostinato | rushing | train | train | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Train Whistle | 0:34:28 - Danny on the train | added-note chord | blaring | hurried | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | ostinato | pc set | rushing | train | train | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Palace Gardens Fanfare | 0:34:31 - Marquee for Palace Gardens | bold | fanfare | marquee | montage | street |
City for Conquest (1940) | I'm Just Wild About Harry | 0:34:32 - Man operating a spotlight | audience | clapping | dancer | dancing | double exposure | leading lady | marquee | montage | source music | stage | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Headlines) | 0:38:25 - Sports news headlines | 9th chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | newspaper | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A + Sidewalks of New York | 0:38:31 - Traveling montage | combination of themes | double exposure | gentle | montage | train | transcribed by ear | traveling |
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) | 42nd Street | 0:38:40 - Montage of dancing scenes | bold | dancing | double exposure | montage | shadow | stage |
City for Conquest (1940) | Boxing Poster | 0:38:48 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing | boxing ring | chromatic sequence | double exposure | fanfare | montage | poster | self-borrowing | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shadow Waltz (Dancing) | 0:38:57 - Montage of dancing scenes | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented triad | dancing | double exposure | gentle | montage | shadow | stage | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Main Event) | 0:39:01 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing ring | double exposure | linear chromaticism | montage | poster | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Burns and Company | 0:39:06 - Montage of dancing scenes | added-note chord | dance band | dancing | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | shadow | stage | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Resolution) | 0:39:10 - Montage of boxing scenes | 9th chord | added-note chord | boxing ring | chromatic mediant | double exposure | foreign key modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | resolution | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Liberty Day | 0:39:19 - A boxing match | boxing | boxing ring | contrasting double period | montage | parallel double period | source music | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Liberty Day | 0:39:41 - Old timer talks to worker | boxer | boxing ring | celebrating | contrasting double period | conversing | crowd | fanfare | leading man | manager | montage | parallel double period | source music | upbeat |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Printing Press | 0:14:10 - A printing press | 64 chord | dark | dissonant bass | fanfare | headline | heroic | mode change | montage | montage | motoric | newspaper | oscillation | printing press |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Traveling | 0:22:25 - Johnnie becomes a fugitive | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | countryside | double exposure | dramatic | leading man | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | purchasing | street | traveling | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Train | 0:22:47 - A rushing train and a map | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | motoric | polychord | train | train | traveling | whistle |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Traveling) | 0:22:51 - Johnnie's plodding feet | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | countryside | desert | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading man | linear chromaticism | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | traveling | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Travel Montage) | 0:36:28 - A speeding train | added-note chord | foreign key modulation | frantic | hitch-hiking | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | map | montage | pc set | runaway | sign | train | train | train whistle | traveling | traveling scene | truck | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Wandering) | 0:37:16 - Joe and Mabel walk down the road | car | car horn | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | montage | oscillation | runaway | street | tired | traveling scene | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Newspaper Montage) | 1:13:48 - Newspaper montage about Joe | courthouse | exciting | headlines | montage | montage | newspaper | printing press | street |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Montage | 0:22:54 - Montage showing the passing of time | chromatic parallelism | clock | dramatic | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | tense | waiting | whole-tone chord |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines | 0:41:50 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines 2 | 0:49:31 - Newspaper headline is shown | added-note chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Calendar Pages | 0:59:53 - Pages falling from a calendar | calendar | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | falling | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | mysterious | prisoner | sequence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Newspaper Fanfare (Extended) | 1:03:36 - Newspaper headline is shown | chromatic parallelism | fanfare | headline | justice | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | noble | zooming |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn B (Montage) | 1:03:40 - Newspaper headlines are shown | artwork in score | common-tone diminished 7th | dissonant bass | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | panning shot | tragic |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Clock ticking | 1:03:50 - Prisoners waiting | anxious | clock | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | polychord | prisoner | ticking | waiting |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition (Extended) | 1:28:35 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train | 0:42:28 - A rushing train | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train + Titus (Rising) | 0:42:43 - Field and Annabelle in a train car | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Slowly) | 0:43:04 - Lane lies in bed | leading lady | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | staring | tragic |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:20:16 - News of Mario's death | brash | cut from film | death | montage | montage | murder | suicide | typing |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Night Clubs | 0:01:12 - Montage of night clubs | bar | bluesy | club | crowd | dancer | dancing | double exposure | eating | journalist | montage | montage | performer | performing | simulated source music | street | voice-over |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Gambling | 0:18:58 - Miami | beach | casino | conversing | croupier | crowd | excited | gambler | gambling | gentle | grand | jockey | leading man | montage | montage | racetrack | racing | riding |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:19:34 - A telegram | gambler | gentle | leading man | montage | montage | reading | room | telegram | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 1:04:46 - Montage of policemen | action scene | double exposure | dramatic | montage | police | searching | street | underscoring |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Tuttissimo) | 1:14:31 - New York City skyline | crowd | dramatic | montage | polychord | riot | rioting | tritone oscillation | violence | voice-over |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Riot | 1:14:50 - Rioters fighting | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crowd | dramatic | fighting | montage | ostinato | pc set | riot | rioting | violence | whole-tone scale |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Conflict) | 1:15:06 - Protestors marching | arguing | crowd | dramatic | montage | polychord | protesting | riot | tritone oscillation | violence |
The Informer (1935) | Yankee Doodle (Fateful Decision) | 0:12:56 - Gypo has a vision of the wanted poster | American | contemplating | deciding | familiar tune | flashback | leading man | linear chromaticism | montage | mysterious | patriotic tune | pedal tone | pivotal scene | room | street | tense | vision |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling) + Shelly 2 | 0:10:13 - Shelly drives through the desert | actor | bright | car | cheerful | combination of themes | desert | double exposure | driving | foreign key modulation | leading lady | map | montage | motor effect | ostinato | sequential modulation | traveling | traveling scene | wheel | zoom in |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Desperate) | 0:34:05 - Mildred looks for a job | applying | depressed | enharmonic reinterpretation | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | montage | searching | street | voice-over | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 0:36:12 - Mildred works as a waitress | 64 chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | chromatic sequence | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | hectic | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | rushing | self-borrowing | sequential modulation | serving | upbeat | voice-over | waitress | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Hopeful) | 0:36:42 - Mildred bakes some pies | cooking | heroine | hopeful | kitchen | leading lady | montage | optimistic | restaurant | success | voice-over | waitress | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Singing Lesson) | 0:37:17 - Veda sings | added-note chord | child | double exposure | heroine | leading lady | montage | on-screen music | room | scored source music | self-borrowing | singing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Ballet Lesson | 0:37:25 - Kay dances | 9th chord | 11th chord | ballet | child | dancing | double exposure | graceful | heroine | leading lady | montage | pleasant | room | voice-over |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 1:08:00 - Montage of restaurants | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | guest | montage | restaurant | self-borrowing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sweepingly) | 1:08:09 - Mildred greets customers | happy | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | smiling | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | French One-Step | 1:08:14 - Veda at a polo match | added-note chord | antagonist | cheering | common-tone diminished 7th | daughter | field | heroine | leading lady | love interest | montage | playing | polo | secondary dominant | sports | upbeat | voice-over | watching |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Montage) | 1:34:44 - Montage of Mildred and Monte's marriage | added-note chord | cheerful | deceptive resolution | ex-husband | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | newspaper | self-borrowing | shadow |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Glasses clink | 1:35:44 - Mildred and Monte clink glasses together | cheerful | clinking | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Watch on the Rhine (Headlines) | 0:28:39 - Montage of newspaper headlines | bold | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | quintal chord |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Rule, Britannia! (Headlines) + La Marseillaise (Headlines) | 0:28:45 - Montage of newspaper headlines | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | pedal tone | polytonality |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | La Marseillaise | 0:28:48 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | altered dominant | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Military Band) | 0:45:45 - Newspaper montage | 64 chord | fanfare | leading man | love interest | montage | pedal tone | politician | soldier | triumphant |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Over There (Military Band) | 0:45:52 - Newspaper montage | leading man | love interest | montage | patriotic tune | politician | soldier | triumphant |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Stars and Stripes Forever (Military Band) | 0:46:01 - Newspaper montage | leading man | love interest | montage | patriotic tune | politician | soldier | triumphant |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Stars and Stripes Forever (Allegro) | 0:46:04 - Newspaper montage | 64 chord | added-note chord | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | montage | patriotic tune | pedal tone | politician | soldier |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Allegro) | 1:18:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | conversing | daughter | dissonant bass | fragmentation | husband | montage | pedal tone | prison | waiting |
Rockabye (1932) | Run-Around | 0:52:45 - Montage of Broadway scenes | common-chord modulation | dominant pedal | montage | self-borrowing | theater | upbeat |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage) | 0:46:47 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 64 chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | boxer | boxing | boxing ring | cheering | chromatic parallelism | fanfare | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | heroic | leading man | montage | newspaper |
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 |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Dixieland) | 0:34:27 - Music is played in a night club | banjo | countermelody | dancing | Dixieland | double exposure | drums | improvisation | jazz | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Hello Beautiful | 0:35:04 - Music is played in a taxi | AABA structure | banjo | dancing | drums | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Millie | 0:35:09 - Hot jazz is played in a night club | AABA structure | banjo | dancing | Dixieland | drums | jazz | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner (Headlines) | 1:24:17 - Chris is suspected of murder | altered dominant | chromatic scale | climax | fragmentation | friend | hurrying | montage | newspaper | newspaper boy | panicked | police station | polychord | polytonality | quartal chord | radio | reporter | room | rushing | street | surprise | tritone oscillation | 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 - A woman in the courtroom | chromatic wedge | climax | courtroom | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | hurrying | knife | lawyer | montage | prosecuting | prosecutor | rushing | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Clocking out | 1:25:41 - Salesgirls with time cards | climax | comical | mickey-mousing | montage | office | saleswoman | time card | working |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 1:25:44 - Mrs. Tanner testifies | altered dominant | climax | courtroom | dramatic | fragmentation | hurrying | irregular meter | 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 | quartal chord | rushing | testifying | tritone oscillation | underscoring | witness |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Heavy) | 1:26:02 - Newspaper headline | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | rushing |
White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 (Montage) | 1:38:26 - Tanker drives down the street | car | car | chase scene | dark | double exposure | electronic effect | fugitive | gangster | leading man | montage | murderer | pursuing | radio effect | speeding | street | truck | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Agents + Pursuit (Montage) | 1:38:33 - Police car in pursuit | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | combination of themes | double exposure | electronic effect | montage | mysterious | police station | pursuing | radio | radio effect | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Cody 2 | 1:39:10 - Tanker drives down the street | car | chase scene | dark | double exposure | driving | fugitive | gangster | leading man | montage | murderer | radio | speeding | street | truck | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Pursuit (Frantic) | 1:39:12 - Police car in pursuit | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | double exposure | montage | police station | pursuing | radio | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:39:16 - Agent at the control board | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | double exposure | dramatic | mapping | montage | police station | pursuing | radio | speeding | street | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan | 0:50:24 - Newspaper headline | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | Renaissance music | somber |
The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan B | 0:50:44 - A carriage arrives | arriving | carriage | conversing | cousin | grand | headline | leading lady | mansion | montage | montage | newspaper | Renaissance music | servant | transition |
The Woman in White (1948) | Come, Sweet Death | 1:20:00 - The obituaries column | montage | newspaper | somber |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Hikin' Jerry | 0:00:14 - Main titles and newspaper headlines | call and response | establish setting | guard | headline | montage | newspaper | opening title sequence | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Scenes Metropolitaine | 0:43:51 - Montage of activities in the city | ABCA structure | augmented triad | boat | boxing | Chinatown | diminished 7th chord | excited | gambling | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | montage | New York | night club | parallelism | transcribed by ear | transition | whole-tone |
Dangerous Corner (1934) | Fall of the Star | 0:17:05 - Newspaper headline about a suicide | common-tone diminished 7th | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | somber | transcribed by ear |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 1 | 0:33:37 - Sports montage | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 2 | 0:33:47 - Sports montage | athlete | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | running |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Gridiron Flash | 0:33:51 - Sports montage | countermelody | fanfare | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | upbeat |
Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Newspaper Montage | 0:32:22 - Newspaper headlines | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | ominous | tragic | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Rushing | 0:54:02 - Clay rushes to catch the bus | bus | detective | hurried | leading man | montage | parallelism | rushing | street | transcribed by ear |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Montage) | 0:54:11 - Feet walking | bus | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | hurried | montage | pedal tone | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Sidewalks of New York | 0:54:28 - Feet walking | bus | calm | chromatic parallelism | foreign key modulation | lighthearted | montage | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Accelerando) | 0:54:42 - Feet walking | added-note chord | bus | chromatic parallelism | hurried | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Walking | 0:54:55 - Detective walking | detective | mickey-mousing | montage | street | tired | transcribed by ear | walking |