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) | Rocky runs | 1:25:13 - Rocky makes a run for it | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading man | octatonic | priest | running | sequence | shooting | street | whole-tone chord |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Allegro) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | mysterious | octatonic | somber | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
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) | The Awakening | 0:14:48 - Johnnie wakes up | advance plot | chromatic scale | confusion | deceptive resolution | leading man | metric modulation | mysterious | octatonic chord | octatonic scale | pc set | room | waking | whole-tone chord |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fight) | 0:25:41 - Charlie and Joe fight | 42 chord | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | fighting | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | punching | villain | warden | whole-tone scale |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Running | 0:26:05 - Joe and Mabel run | 9th chord | barn | conflict | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | octatonic | running |
The Informer (1935) | Yankee Doodle (Octatonic) | 0:06:21 - Katie looks at the poster about a trip to America | American | comical | conversing | dark | diminished 7th chord | establish character | leading lady | leading man | octatonic | parallelism | patriotic tune | source music | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Drinking) | 0:21:23 - Gypo takes a drink | advance plot | antagonist | bartender | drinking | leading man | mysterious | octatonic | pub | Scotch snap | tense | tritone | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Lying) | 0:23:40 - Gypo lies about where he got the money | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic sequence | conversing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | lying | octatonic | pub | Scotch snap | tense |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 0:32:03 - Gypo in rebel headquarters | advance plot | antagonist | burning | combination of themes | diminished 7th chord | fire | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | octatonic | rebel | rising | room | Scotch snap | tense | tone cluster |
The Informer (1935) | The Irish Washerwoman (Pub) + Blood Money + The Wearin' o' the Green + The Informer | 0:44:52 - People celebrate in the pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | chaotic | chromatic scale | close-up | combination of themes | crowd | dark | dissonant bass | excited | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | happy | heroic | Irish | layering | leading man | mob | mobbing | octatonic | parallelism | pedal tone | polytonality | rebel | serving | source to score | spying | tense | whole-tone | yelling | zoom in |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Laughing) | 1:09:04 - Gypo laughs at Peter | accusing | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | bold | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | leading man | octatonic | room | serious | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Risoluto) | 1:20:12 - Rebels plan to catch Gypo | advance plot | arriving | headquarters | octatonic | planning | rebel | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 0:39:10 - Mildred argues with Veda | angry | arguing | child | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | harsh | heroine | leading lady | linear chromaticism | octatonic chord | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:18:59 - Veda talks to her mother | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | conversing | daughter | fear | friend | heroine | leading lady | linear chromaticism | octatonic chord | room | surprise | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Runs upstairs | 1:24:04 - Veda runs up the stairs | angry | antagonist | ascending | conflict | daughter | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | room | stern |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 1:24:04 - Veda watches her daughter leave | altered dominant | angry | ascending | conflict | heroine | leading lady | leaving | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | room | stern |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Joan) | 0:50:31 - Joan enters Vergie's shop | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | distortion | entering | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | meeting | mother | octatonic scale | reunion | secret | shop | timid |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Agitated) | 1:01:27 - John and Laura argue about Joan | agitated | arguing | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | leading man | octatonic scale | room | tense | transcribed by ear | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:40:57 - David helps Leni | 9th chord | advance plot | conversing | delicate | helping | hero | heroine | octatonic scale | prison | underscoring |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sidewalks of New York (Lights) | 0:21:04 - New York City skyline | calm | diminished 7th chord | drinking | leading lady | leading man | New York | octatonic | popular music | setting | transcribed by ear | transition |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Lying) | 0:27:51 - Danny prepares to advance | action scene | bank | chromatic sequence | detective | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | leading man | octatonic | preparing | sneaking | tense |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Drinking) | 0:28:39 - Pete stands up | action scene | bank | detective | gangster | leading man | octatonic | standing | tense | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 1:03:25 - A man falls to the ground | climax | conflict | crawling | detective | diminished 7th chord | dying | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | octatonic | reporter | Scotch snap | shooting | tense | tone cluster | victim | yard |
Caged (1950) | Falling | 1:01:18 - Marie falls to the ground | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | falling | guard | leading lady | mad scene | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | prison | prisoner | throwing |