| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Murder | 1:51:56 - The Duke advances towards the Duchess | approaching | blur | chromatic scale | climax | dark | diminished 7th chord | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | menacing | murder | murdering | murder scene | ominous | pc set | room | strangling |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Poison Victim | 1:07:50 - Rocks is poisoned | dissonant | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | mysterious | office | parallel fifths | poison | poisoning | quartal chord | tense | tone cluster | tritone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Poison | 1:08:46 - Rocks feels the effect of the poison | blur | chromatic parallelism | diminution | doctor | dreaming | drugs | ethereal | gangster | layering | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | office | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | poison | poisoning | polychord | stinger | tone cluster |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks struggles and falls | 1:09:52 - Rocks tries to get up, then collapses | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | death | doctor | down | drugs | dying | falling | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | oscillation | poison | rising | split-third chord | struggling | tense | up |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Funebre) | 1:10:07 - Dr. Clitterhouse talks with Jo | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | death | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | pleading | realizing | tense |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Eddie Sings) | 0:40:40 - The boys leave the scene of the crime | friend | leading man | murderer | murder scene | nervous | singing | source music | street | walking |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Misterioso) | 1:09:23 - Rosa looks through the binoculars | anger | binoculars | forest | friend | hunting | husband | leading lady | leading man | looking | murder scene | mysterious | ominous | tense | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Ominous) | 1:10:01 - Rosa puts down the binoculars | aiming | anger | dark | familiar tune | forest | friend | husband | leading lady | leading man | murder scene | ominous | popular tune | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Ominous) | 1:10:14 - Rosa aims her gun | aiming | anger | dark | forest | friend | harsh | husband | leading lady | leading man | murder scene | ominous | stinger | victim |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Mysterioso | 1:13:36 - Googi leaves | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | criminal | gangster | leaving | locker room | manager | murder scene | mysterious | parallelism | whole-tone |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (The Car) | 1:13:38 - Googi in the car | car | car | conversing | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder scene | ominous | tense | trill |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Ominous) | 1:14:02 - Googi talks with the boxing managers | 9th chord | arguing | car | car | criminal | dissonant bass | driving | fragmentation | gangster | manager | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shooting and dying | 1:14:23 - Googi shoots Dutch | car | car | criminal | dramatic | dying | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | shooting | stinger | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (The Car) | 1:14:32 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening | trill |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Hysterical) | 1:14:42 - Cobb pleads for mercy | augmented triad | begging | car | car | chromatic sequence | criminal | driving | equal division of octave | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:48 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening |
City for Conquest (1940) | Slap | 1:14:53 - Googi slaps Cobb | car | car | chromatic parallelism | criminal | gangster | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | pc set | slapping | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Rough) | 1:15:00 - The car pulls to a stop | arriving | car | criminal | dark | dock | driving | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | threatening | tritone | whole-tone chord |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Dead Man) | 1:15:09 - They pull out the dead man | car | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | ostinato | tense | whole-tone chord | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Gun falls | 1:15:13 - A gun falls to the ground | car | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Molto Mysterioso e Screwyoso) | 1:15:19 - Cobb sees the gun | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dissonant bass | dock | fragmentation | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | ostinato | tense | tritone oscillation | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Kicks body | 1:15:22 - Googi kicks the body into the water | chromatic scale | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | kicking | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Throws gun away | 1:15:30 - Googi throws a gun in the water | criminal | dock | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | throwing |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi dies | 1:15:34 - Googi is shot | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Death) | 1:15:39 - Googi dies | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | manager | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | So Help Me (If I Don't Love You) | 0:05:54 - Johnnie and Goldie relaxing | drinking | floozy | jaunty | kissing | leading man | murder scene | popular song | radio | room | source music |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | When a Prince of a Fella Meets a Cinderella | 0:06:23 - Johnnie talks to his manager | dancing | drinking | floozy | jaunty | laughing | leading man | murder scene | parallel double period | partying | radio | room | source music |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Saving Myself For You (I've Been) | 0:08:02 - Johnnie at a party | AABA structure | attacking | conversing | drinking | fighting | floozy | jaunty | leading man | murder | murdering | murder scene | partying | radio | room | source music | violence |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Don’t Give Up the Ship | 0:26:47 - Prison orchestra plays | arriving | entering | military band | murder scene | on-screen music | orchestra | parallel double period | patriotic | prison | prisoner | source music |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Wings Over the Navy | 0:28:04 - Prisoners watch a movie | dying | film music | knife | movie | murdering | murder scene | patriotic | prison | prisoner | source music | watching |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | FBI (Molto Marcato) | 0:59:03 - FBI man enters with a gun | agent | arresting | communist | gun | leading lady | leading man | murder scene | noble | room | sneaking | spy | stinger | street | teacher | tense | undercover agent |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Tense) | 0:59:26 - FBI man holds gun on commie agents | acceleration | agent | arresting | communist | dark | dialing | gun | murder scene | room | spy | tense | tritone oscillation |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Throws lamp | 0:59:39 - Commie throws lamp at FBI man | agent | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | communist | dramatic | falling | lamp | mickey-mousing | murder scene | room | spy | throwing |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Agents Fight | 0:59:39 - Communists fight the FBI man | agent | attacking | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | communist | death | dramatic | fighting | knife | minor-major 7th chord | murder | murder scene | pc set | polychord | room | spy | stabbing | stinger | tritone oscillation |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Shimmery) | 0:02:57 - Leslie stands over the dead body | cloud | death | half-diminished 7th chord | home | leading lady | moon | murder | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallelism | plantation | sequence | suspension | watching |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Revolver) | 0:03:43 - A pistol lies on the steps | changing meter | conversing | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gun | harmonic sequence | home | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | oscillation | sequential modulation | servant | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Native 2 | 0:04:12 - Leslie talks to the workers | conversing | home | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | open fifth | pentatonic | servant | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:04:29 - Leslie leaves the room | Dorian mode | home | leaving | murder scene | mysterious | servant | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Mysterioissimo) | 0:04:42 - A shadow appears | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | home | leading lady | light | looking | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallel fifths | servant | turning on |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Lacework) | 0:04:55 - Worker picks up Leslie's lacework | changing meter | crying | foreign key modulation | home | leading lady | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | sequence | sequential modulation |
| 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) | Mildred (Murder) | 0:01:59 - Bullet holes in the mirror | 11th chord | augmented sixth chord | dark | death | dying | leaving | murder | murder scene | room | 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 |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Ominous) | 1:47:42 - Mildred rushes in to check on Veda | antagonist | confessing | dark | daughter | heroine | leading lady | lying | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred B (Angry) | 1:48:06 - Veda confesses to Mildred | angry | antagonist | confessing | confession | daughter | diminished 7th chord | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | lying | murderer | murder scene | pc set | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:48:22 - Veda pleads for help to escape | antagonist | begging | chromatic scale | confessing | daughter | distressed | fragmentation | frantic | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room | sequence | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:48:41 - Mildred calls the police | antagonist | begging | chromatic sequence | daughter | fragmentation | heroine | imitation | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | ominous | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:48:54 - Veda asks her mother not to turn her in | antagonist | begging | daughter | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Returning Home 2) | 1:49:17 - Veda convinces her mother to not report her | antagonist | crying | daughter | heroine | leading lady | loving | mode mixture | mother | murderer | murder scene | reverse picardy | room | sacrificing | tender | warm |
| White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:12:14 - Zuckie pleads with Cody | conversing | dark | death | funereal | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | pleading | room | underscoring | victim |
White Heat (1949) | Zuckie's Death | 0:12:29 - Cody ignores Zuckie | crying | dark | death | departing | funereal | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moaning | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | pleading | room | somber | victim |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Extended) | 0:12:45 - Ma warns Cody that Zuckie may talk | dark | death | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | plotting | victim | warning | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:12:57 - Cody orders Cotton to shoot Zuckie | commanding | dark | death | dramatic | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | stinger | underscoring | victim | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Ugly) | 0:13:06 - Cotton goes to kill Zuckie | dark | death | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | victim | walking | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Zuckie's Death | 0:13:32 - Gangsters get in the car | dark | death | departing | funereal | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | somber | victim | walking | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Molto Marcato) | 0:13:59 - Cody walks to the car | bold | dark | departing | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | victim | violent | walking | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Verna (Glance) | 0:14:04 - Verna looks at Big Ed | bluesy | car | dark | female | looking | murder scene | smiling |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:44:42 - Parker sneaks | gangster | leading man | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | prison | prisoner | sneaking | undercover agent | underscoring | working |
White Heat (1949) | Trap | 0:44:53 - The crane moves over Cody's head | attempted | crane | crashing | dramatic | dropping | falling | gangster | leading man | machine | machine effect | mickey-mousing | moving | murder | murderer | murder scene | prison | prisoner | saving | stinger | tense | trap | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Madness (Agitato) | 1:15:59 - Cody looks at Verna | agitated | anger | death | gangster | leading lady | leading man | lying | moll | murderer | murder scene | staring | stinger | tense | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Malevolent) | 1:16:18 - Cody pushes Verna | dark | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | murderer | murder scene | pushing | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:16:28 - Big Ed creates a decoy | decoy | gangster | gun | love interest | murder scene | preparing | room | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:16:51 - Cody and Verna climb through the window | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | room | sneaking | sneaking effect | tense | underscoring | window |
White Heat (1949) | Verna (Uneasy) | 1:18:05 - Big Ed kisses Verna | dark | drinking | embracing | gangster | gun | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | moll | murderer | murder scene | room | somber | spying | waiting |
White Heat (1949) | Big Ed's Death | 1:18:41 - Big Ed runs | dark | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | room | running | rushing | shooting | violence |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:20 - Big Ed's body falls down the stairs | dark | death | dramatic | falling | fugitive | gangster | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | moll | murderer | murder scene | panning shot | room | stairs | staring | statue | stinger | undercover agent | underscoring | watching |
| Transgression (1931) | Gong | 0:50:00 - Don Arturo is shot | death | dying | gun | gunshot | leading lady | love interest | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | room | tense | victim |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Violent) | 0:12:29 - Newspaper headline | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | murder | murder scene | newspaper | transcribed by ear | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Hazel murders husband | 0:12:36 - Hazel murders her husband | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | husband | knife | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | newspaper | room | stabbing | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Dramatic Agitato | 0:12:41 - Hazel screams | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | letter | murder | murderer | murder scene | newspaper | room | screaming | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) + The Train | 0:23:07 - Helen points the gun at herself and cries | antagonist | combination of themes | crying | exotic | exoticism | gun | Gypsy major scale | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pedal tone | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Suicide) | 0:24:18 - Helen commits suicide | antagonist | chromaticism | committing suicide | dying | exotic | exoticism | gun | gunshot | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pc set | pedal tone | stinger | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:39:42 - Grace turns on the radio | AABA structure | arriving | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | confronting | conversing | gangster | gun | leading man | moll | murderer | murder scene | popular music | room | source music | staring | threatening |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:39:59 - Bob (Bat) pulls a gun on Grace | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | confronting | fragmentation | frantic | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mirror shot | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | popular music | reacting | room | screaming | sequence | shooting | simulated source music | source music | staring | tense | threatening | victim |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:40:17 - Grace is shot | AABA structure | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | gangster | gun | leading man | mirror shot | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | planning | popular music | room | source music | staring | victim |
| Caged (1950) | Harper's Death | 1:27:19 - Kitty stabs Harper with a fork | added-note chord | dark | death | dying | dying | falling | falling | fork | killing | minor-major 7th chord | murder | murdering | murder scene | prison | screaming | stabbing | stabbing | stinger | walking | walking |
| Mara Maru (1952) | Murder | 0:19:08 - Callahan's body is discovered | agitated | arriving | corpse | discovering | dramatic | leading man | murder | murder scene | police | room | stinger | tense |
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