| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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