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 |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Cook | 1:05:06 - The cook hands a package to Jerry | advance plot | comical | conversing | cook | Irish | leading man | parallel fifths | priest | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Victim | 1:30:11 - Mortimer tied up in a chair | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | fear | leading man | murderer | ominous | parallel fifths | quartal chord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | tritone | victim |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem D (Dolce) | 1:28:33 - Gladys talks to Peggy | 9th chord | 11th chord | advance plot | blue note | chromatic sequence | comforting | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | crying | friend | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | newspaper | parallel fifths | room | sweet |
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) | Creeping | 0:16:38 - Man creeping in the dark | advance plot | creeping | exoticism | Locrian mode | mickey-mousing | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | plantation | sequential modulation | servant | sneaky |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond | 0:23:27 - Mrs. Hammond appears | Aeolian mode | Chinese | Chinese | death | delicate | dissonant bass | establish character | grieving | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | plantation | stinger | widow |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Appassionato) | 0:24:12 - Mrs. Hammond looks at her husband | Aeolian mode | Chinese | Chinese | death | delicate | establish character | grieving | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | passionate | pedal tone | pentatonic | plantation | widow |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond | 0:51:49 - Howard and Leslie alone | advance plot | Chinese | home | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | pacing | parallel fifths | pentatonic | waiting |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Grandioso) | 0:53:54 - Leslie approaches the car | antagonist | Chinese | Chinese | driving | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pedal tone | pentatonic | plantation | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Chinese Quarter | 0:54:15 - The car enters the Chinese Quarter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | driving | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | leading lady | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | setting | transition |
The Letter (1940) | Chinese Shop | 0:55:30 - Howard and Leslie look around | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | layering | leading lady | Lydian mode | mirroring | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | polytonality | quintal chord | tense | transition | waiting | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Mysterioso) | 0:56:29 - Howard and Leslie wait in the shop | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | exotic | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | pentatonic | shop | tense | transition | waiting |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Dagger) | 0:57:04 - Leslie looks at a Chinese dagger | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | dagger | exotic | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | pentatonic | polytonality | shop | tense | transition | waiting |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Confession) | 1:17:35 - Leslie confesses to Robert | Chinese | confessing | conflict | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | recounting | serious | somber | tritone oscillation |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Foxtrot No. 1 | 1:20:02 - Ong is seen in the mirror | advance plot | antagonist | calm | combination of themes | dagger | dance music | dropping | foxtrot | home | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pentatonic | source music |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Foxtrot No. 1 B | 1:21:15 - Leslie looks around | advance plot | Chinese | combination of themes | dagger | dance music | foxtrot | home | leading lady | looking | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pentatonic | polymeter | polytonality | source music | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Missing Dagger) | 1:29:49 - Leslie opens the door | Chinese | climax | dagger | door | gentle | home | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | opening | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Ambush) | 1:31:55 - Leslie moves through the gate | Aeolian mode | antagonist | Chinese | climax | dark | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | plantation | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Revenge) | 1:33:01 - Mrs. Hammond stabs Leslie | 64 chord | antagonist | Chinese | Chinese | climax | dagger | leading lady | murder | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pentatonic | plantation | somber | walking |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Innocent) | 0:06:36 - Gerald runs inside | 9th chord | boy | child | classical music | comforting | common-tone diminished 7th | establish character | familiar tune | father | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | Haydn | hero | home | innocent | mode mixture | nagging | parallel fifths | playful | quotation | step modulation | tritone | Wagner |