| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation | 0:00:08 - Starring list | dark | dissonant bass | opening title sequence | parallelism | serious | starring list | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Agitated) | 0:07:52 - Henriette talks to Henry Field | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conversing | distressed | establish character | leading lady | minister | principal | school | teacher |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Agitated) | 0:22:23 - The Duke rebukes the Duchess | agitated | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | distressed | dominant 7th chord | duchess | duke | establish character | leading lady | leading man | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Pleading | 0:22:41 - The Duchess pleads with the Duke to stay | acceleration | agitated | arguing | chromatic sequence | distressed | duchess | duke | establish character | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pleading | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Furioso) | 0:22:53 - The Duchess curses the Duke | agitated | arguing | dissonant bass | distressed | duchess | duke | establish character | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pleading | priest | room | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Illness | 0:26:16 - The Duke asks about Raynald | advance plot | delicate | duke | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | room | worrying |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Rubato (Carriage) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | advance plot | carriage | child | cut from film | deceptive resolution | duchess | governess | leading lady | leaving | parallelism | passionate | street |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Prayer | 0:36:36 - The Abbe prays for Raynald | child | common-chord modulation | duke | governess | hymn-like | illness | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | praying | priest | religious scene | room | sequence | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation | 0:39:54 - The Duchess writes a letter | angry | chromatic scale | crying | despair | duchess | leading lady | mad scene | on-screen text | parallelism | room | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Pleading (Extended) | 0:40:26 - The Abbe talks with the Duchess | 9th chord | angry | arguing | chromatic sequence | despair | duchess | fragmentation | leading lady | mad scene | oscillation | parallelism | priest | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald (Andante) | 0:41:36 - Henriette and the Duke by Raynald's bedside | 9th chord | 64 chord | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic sequence | conversing | duke | governess | hopeful | illness | illness scene | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | room | solemn | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Molto Screwieoso) | 0:44:50 - Henriette looks at a gift from the Duchess | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | distressed | gift | governess | leading lady | looking | opening | pedal tone | room | stinger |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Gossip | 0:55:36 - Scissors cut a newspaper clipping | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | cutting | dissonant bass | gossiper | gossiping | harsh | minor second | newspaper | room | scissors | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Gentle) | 1:09:26 - Isabelle talks to Henriette | 9th chord | advance plot | child | chromatic parallelism | comforting | crying | gentle | governess | leading lady | Neapolitan | room | sweet |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Expressivo) | 1:10:42 - The Duke complains to Henriette | abrupt | advance plot | angry | chromatic parallelism | complaining | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | sequential modulation |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette + Falling Snow | 1:12:16 - The Duke talks to Henriette | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | room | snow | snow globe | snowing | uneasy |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Falling Snow | 1:12:39 - Henriette watches the falling snow | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conversing | dissonant bass | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | point-of-view shot | room | snow | snow globe | snowing | uneasy |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Dark) | 1:13:56 - Henriette watches the Duke leaving | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | dark | dissonant bass | duke | leading man | leaving | parallelism | point-of-view shot | room | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (The Letter) | 1:14:48 - A letter is pushed under the door | 9th chord | advance plot | agitated | chromatic parallelism | conflicted | deceptive resolution | duke | fragmentation | leading man | letter | pacing | pondering | room | turbulent |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette + Falling Snow | 1:18:26 - Snow swirling in a snow globe | advance plot | calm | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | deceptive resolution | gift | governess | leading lady | room | snow | snow globe | snowing | swirling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Pleading (Extended 2) | 1:19:43 - The Duchess pleads with the Duke | 9th chord | acceleration | arguing | chromatic sequence | conflict | desperate | duchess | duke | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | All Hallows Eve | 1:23:22 - A forest scene at night | augmented triad | child | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | create suspense | dissonant bass | forest | governess | Halloween | hiding | leading lady | ombra topic | on-screen text | pc set | pedal tone | scaring | scary | spooky | walking | whole-tone chord |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Loti's Song | 1:24:31 - Apples roasting on a fire | 9th chord | child | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | cooking | create suspense | dissonant bass | forest | governess | leading lady | linear chromaticism | old man | pedal tone | scary | scored source music | singer | singing | split-third chord | spooky |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Creeping | 1:25:02 - A stranger approaches | child | chromatic parallelism | create suspense | creeping | diminished 7th chord | duke | forest | governess | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | retardation | scary | sneaking | spooky |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald (Mysterioso 3) | 1:30:51 - The children talk to Henriette | 9th chord | bright | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | palace | surprise | tense | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Expressivo) | 1:31:48 - The Duke talks to Henriette | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | Neapolitan | palace | pedal tone | reassuring | romantic | sigh gesture | stinger | tender |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Agitated) | 1:35:05 - Henriette with the children | advance plot | agitated | child | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conversing | governess | leading lady | room | worried |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time (Moderato) | 1:35:45 - Henriette opens a gift | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | augmentation | calm | child | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | gift | governess | leading lady | locket | opening | parallelism | room | tender |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Ethereal) | 1:38:54 - Henriette talks with the Duke | conversing | duke | ethereal | governess | leading lady | leading man | love scene | parallelism | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 1:41:02 - Henriette talks with the children | 9th chord | child | conversing | farewell scene | gentle | governess | leading lady | parallelism | pedal tone | room | tender | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Gossip 2 | 1:47:20 - Henriette sees her landlady gossiping | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | duke | gossiper | gossiping | harsh | landlady | leading man | minor second | reunion scene | room | tense | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Gossiping) + Spring Time (Gossiping) | 1:47:25 - Henriette's landlady talks to the Duke | awkward | child | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | diminished 7th chord | duke | gossiper | gossiping | landlady | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | reunion scene | room | somber | tense | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Tense) | 1:48:14 - The Duke talks with Henriette | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conflict | conversing | dissonant bass | duke | leading lady | leading man | room | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ghostly) | 2:11:23 - Henriette hears voices | arriving | chromatic parallelism | dark | dissonant bass | hearing voices | leading lady | palace | prisoner | soldier | spooky | suspect | transition | uneasy |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Duet) | 2:14:06 - A close-up on Henriette | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | conversing | death bed | death scene | deceptive resolution | detective | duke | dying | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | prisoner | questioning | room | sad | soldier | suspect | tender |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Funereal) | 2:14:27 - Henriette leaves the Duke | conversing | death bed | death scene | detective | duke | dying | funeral march | leading lady | leading man | Neapolitan | parallelism | pedal tone | prisoner | questioning | room | sad | sigh gesture | soldier | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Dying (Molto Expressivo) | 2:14:46 - The Duke talks to Pierre | caretaker | chromatic parallelism | confessing | conversing | death bed | death scene | diminished 7th chord | duke | dying | leading man | love | pedal tone | room | sigh gesture | somber |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette + Falling Snow | 2:21:43 - Henriette sees the falling snow | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | hearing voices | leading lady | minister | mode mixture | resolution | school | snow | teacher | tense |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 1 | 0:00:15 - Title of film | beaker | bubbling | chromatic scale | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 2 | 0:00:27 - Cast list | 9th chord | beaker | bubbling | cast list | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | ostinato | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor | 0:20:05 - Dr. Clitterhouse enters Hotel Sequin | 42 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | lobby | mysterious | quartal chord | sign | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Meeting) | 0:21:30 - Dr. Clitterhouse is taken upstairs | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | doctor | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | lobby | mysterious | pedal tone | sequence | thief |
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 Fur Store | 0:44:20 - Truck arrives at the United Fur Co. | chromatic parallelism | darkness | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | pedal tone | store | street | suspenseful | transition | truck |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Knocked Out) | 0:45:04 - Watchman knocked out on the floor | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | stealing | store | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Sneaking | 0:45:13 - Criminals steal furs | ascending | carrying | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | pedal tone | robbery | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | store | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:45:26 - Criminals on the rooftop | 42 chord | carrying | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crime | criminal | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | robbery | rooftop | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | thief | tossing | underscoring | walking | whole-tone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Comical) | 0:46:08 - Doctor examines a criminal | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | doctor | examining | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | pedal tone | robbery | rooftop | sequence | thief | underscoring |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:04 - Doctor talks with the criminals | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | examining | gangster | leading man | ostinato | pc set | robbery | rooftop | tense | thief | underscoring | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Arms crossing | 0:47:10 - Criminal crosses his arms | arm | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | crossing | diminished 7th chord | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | rooftop | thief | wedge |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | How Dry I Am (Nervous) | 0:47:20 - Criminals talking | 64 chord | conversing | criminal | doctor | gangster | leading man | nervous | parallelism | pedal tone | robbery | rooftop | source music | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Giving Orders) | 0:48:32 - Doctor gives orders to the criminals | 64 chord | anger | annoyance | chromatic parallelism | commanding | criminal | doctor | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | ordering | pedal tone | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Double Cross) | 0:48:56 - Rocks thinks of a double-cross | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | plotting | robbery | sinister | store | thief | trapping |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Locked in vault | 0:49:06 - Dr. Clitterhouse locked in safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | panicking | polychord | pounding | robbery | safe | store | tense | thief | trapping | vault | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Brass) + The Motor | 0:51:00 - Dr. Clitterhouse in the safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | gangster | knocking | motor | ostinato | panicking | robbery | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch (Burning) | 0:51:12 - Butch opens safe with welder's torch | anxious | burning | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Rescue) | 0:52:29 - Dr. Clitterhouse escapes from safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hero | motor | ostinato | rescuing | robbery | store | tense | thief |
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 |
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 |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Chase | 0:04:21 - Cops chase boys through the train yard | chase scene | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | police | polychord | running | street | teenager | whole-tone chord |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | evading | following | gangster | leading man | linear chromaticism | setup | shop | street | underscoring | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pushing forward | 0:40:26 - Man pulls a gun on the cashier | advancing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dominant 7th chord | gangster | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | pedal tone | pushing | shop |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:41:20 - Police car arrives | arriving | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | half-diminished 7th chord | rushing | shop | street | tense | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Crowd | 0:41:46 - Hustling crowd | chromatic parallelism | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | rushing | street | tense |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Elevator Music) | 0:42:40 - Elevator goes up | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | elevator | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | rising | room | tense |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Cartoon | 1:04:49 - Jerry looks at newspaper cartoon of Rocky | 9th chord | advance plot | cartoon | chromatic parallelism | comical | leading man | priest | reading | room |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:16:29 - Rocky shoots Mac and Frazier | agitated | attacking | casino | chaos | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | crowd | death | dissonant bass | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | fighting | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | jumping | landing | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | rooftop | room | running | sequence | shooting | sneaking | sneaky | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Mac gets shot | 1:16:35 - Mac gets shot and dies | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | room | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up a ladder | 1:17:41 - Rocky climbs up an escape ladder | agitated | ascending | chromatic parallelism | climbing | conflict | dramatic | gangster | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | sequence | street | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:00 - Rocky is trapped in a building | 42 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | fleeing | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | major 7th chord | police | running | sequence | stairwell | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up stairs | 1:19:27 - Rocky runs up the stairs | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | running | sequence | stairs | stairwell | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas | 1:19:48 - Tear gas spreads throughout the room | agitated | breaking | breaking | breathing | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | quartal chord | running | shooting | smoke | street | tear gas | throwing | window |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Machine Gun | 1:20:24 - Policeman shoots at Rocky with machine gun | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | death | dramatic | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | police | polychord | shooting | street | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry + Tear Gas | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | quartal chord | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas (Desperate) | 1:21:40 - Rocky tries to hold off the cops | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | priest | quartal chord | shooting | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Triste) | 1:23:57 - Rocky uses Jerry as a hostage | 9th chord | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | coughing | dark | double-cross | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gangster | hostage | leading man | linear chromaticism | major 7th chord | menacing | polychord | priest | smoke | somber | street | tear gas | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:44 - Rocky punches a guard | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | fighting | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Coney Island) | NIF - not in film | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | foreign key modulation | joyful |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Washroom Sequence) | 0:24:25 - Eddie talks with his friends | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | dance hall | friend | leading man | score to source | somber | source music | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Washroom Sequence Coda) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | cut from film |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Andante) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | cut from film | mode mixture | parallelism | quartal chord | tense | whole-tone chord |
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 (Meno) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | cut from film | half-diminished 7th chord | peaceful |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Chromatic Fall | 0:00:58 - Max Steiner's name | 42 chord | cast list | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | opening title sequence | pedal tone |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Marriage License Bureau) | 0:01:59 - "Marriage License Bureau" sign | 64 chord | arriving | calm | conversing | crowd | direct modulation | establish character | familiar tune | marriage | office | parallelism | reporter | romantic | sequence | spouse |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Comical) | 0:02:20 - Mortimer hides from the reporters | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | comical | disguise | establish character | hiding | leading lady | leading man | looking | marriage | office | reporter | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Wind blowing | 0:13:48 - Wind blows the curtains at the window | advance plot | aunt | blowing | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | looking | mysterious | room | wind | wind effect |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Church Bells) | 0:15:17 - Mortimer follows Elaine | 64 chord | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | parallelism | romantic |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Church Bells) | 0:16:22 - Mortimer and Elaine talk | 64 chord | bride | cemetery | chromatic mediant | conversing | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | parallelism | romantic |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:42:08 - Jonathan talks to the aunts | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | parallelism | room | tense | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Face) | 0:42:29 - Jonathan talks about his scar | augmented triad | aunt | brother | chromatic parallelism | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | scar | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Tranquillo) | 0:43:40 - Jonathan sits down | augmented triad | aunt | brother | calm | chromatic parallelism | conversing | crazy person | criminal | direct modulation | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Wind blowing 2 | 0:52:32 - The aunts walk to the window | advance plot | aunt | blowing | chromatic parallelism | crazy person | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | looking | murderer | mysterious | room | wind | wind effect | window |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Molto Agitato | 1:29:57 - Jonathan ties Mortimer to a chair | 9th chord | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | conflict | crazy person | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | gagging | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | stinger | tying | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Knives | 1:31:05 - Mortimer looks at the knives | acceleration | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | close-up | conflict | crazy person | diminution | doctor | fear | layering | leading man | murderer | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | polychord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Panic | 1:31:48 - Einstein agrees to do the torture | alcohol | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | oscillation | panicked | panicking | polychord | room | sequence | split-third chord | tense | torturing | victim |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:01:26 - Carmen walks down the stairs | arriving | daughter | deceptive resolution | descending | establish character | femme fatale | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Flirtation | 0:01:42 - Carmen flirts with Marlowe | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:13:02 - Marlowe leaves the mansion | butler | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | transition | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:13:39 - Marlowe walks down the street | advance plot | calm | investigating | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | street | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (Extended) | 0:15:03 - Marlowe walks across the street | advance plot | calm | chromatic sequence | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | investigating | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | street | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 0:19:26 - Geiger enters his house | antagonist | car | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | mysterious | parallelism | rain | street | tense | transition | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running | 0:20:06 - Carmen runs to Geiger's house | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | femme fatale | investigation scene | mysterious | rain | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Action | 0:21:04 - Marlowe runs to the house | action scene | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | chromatic wedge | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | hurrying | leading man | pc set | private eye | running | street | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running down | 0:21:13 - Feet running down the stairs | action scene | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | descending | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (Extended) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | foreign key modulation | investigating | investigation | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | searching | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Thinking) | 0:24:26 - Marlowe tries to solve the mystery | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | clue | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | secret code | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Risoluto) | 0:24:39 - Marlowe searches for clues | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | resolved | room | searching |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (The Car) | NIF - not in film | car | deleted scene | driving | femme fatale | foreign key modulation | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | sequential modulation | tense | transition |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:25:22 - Vivian walks down the hall | advance plot | butler | calm | inserted scene | leading lady | leading man | not in score | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | reused recording | room | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 0:27:25 - Marlowe goes back to Geiger's house | chromatic sequence | half-diminished 7th chord | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | private eye | street | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Entering | NIF - not in film | arriving | augmented sixth chord | deleted scene | entering | gentle | leading man | not in score | parallel 63s | parallelism | private eye | room | transition | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:32:10 - Marlowe walks to his office | advance plot | arriving | calm | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 0:39:41 - Marlowe walks back to the cab | fragmentation | hurrying | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | private eye | sequence | street | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Girl Driver | 0:39:53 - Marlowe pays the lady cab driver | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | flirting | investigation scene | leading man | love interest | private eye | seductive | street |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running | 0:47:40 - Vivian enters the apartment building | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | hurrying | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | private eye | street | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Determined) | 0:47:56 - Marlowe enters the apartment building | arriving | ascending | bold | common-chord modulation | determined | fragmentation | heroic | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | parallel 63s | parallelism | private eye | sequence | stairs | street | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:48:15 - Marlowe talks to Joe Brody | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | gun | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | suspect | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:51:31 - Joe reacts to the doorbell ringing | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | criminal | doorbell | gun | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:52:02 - Marlowe pushes Agnes | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | falling | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tripping | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood (Extended) | 0:52:29 - Carmen asks for her picture back | 9th chord | altered dominant | blackmail | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | evidence | femme fatale | flirting | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | seductive | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe (Action) | 0:56:39 - Marlowe chases the killer | assassin | chase scene | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | descending | dissonant bass | dramatic | gun | gunshot | heroic | layering | leading man | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian | 1:15:22 - Marlowe and Vivian talk | 9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | car | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | conversing | foreign key modulation | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | love scene | Neapolitan | private eye | romantic | suspension |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Questions | 1:16:16 - Marlowe and Vivian argue | angry | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | private eye | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:16:43 - Marlowe and Vivian argue | accusing | car | chromatic parallelism | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | pedal tone | private eye | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | femme fatale | leading man | oscillation | private eye | room | tritone | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Major) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | mode mixture | pc set | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Bites hand | NIF - not in film | advance plot | biting | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | mickey-mousing | pc set | private eye | room | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Thinking) | 1:20:49 - Marlowe sits in a diner | 11th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | café | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | leading man | mysterious | private eye | tense | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:21:57 - Marlowe speaks with Vivian on the phone | advance plot | café | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love interest | mysterious | phone call | private eye | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (Interrupted) | 1:22:27 - Marlowe walks down the street | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | street | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones | 1:23:24 - Jones enters | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | street | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Beaten) | 1:23:35 - Jones helps Marlowe up | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dazed | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | lifting | mickey-mousing | pain | private eye | rising | street | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (Hesitant) | 1:26:55 - Marlowe walks into a building | fragmentation | hallway | investigation scene | leading man | neutral | pain | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | sequential modulation | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Eavesdropping) | 1:27:22 - Marlowe hears Jones talking to someone | chromatic parallelism | eavesdropping | hallway | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | sneaking | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones falls | 1:29:50 - Jones falls and dies | chromatic parallelism | death | death scene | dying | falling | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | mysterious | pc set | poison | private eye | room | victim | violent |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Wrong Address | 1:30:46 - Marlowe ends the phone call | 9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | death | death scene | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | phone call | private eye | room | somber | victim |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Dolce) | 1:31:04 - Marlowe sits down on the couch | chromatic parallelism | death | death scene | leading man | mourning | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | somber | victim |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Triste) | 1:32:02 - Marlowe leaves the office | death scene | informer | leading man | mourning | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | somber |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying (Car) | 1:33:13 - Marlowe drives in a car | added-note chord | car | driving | hurried | leading man | parallelism | private eye | sequential modulation | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying (Car) | 1:33:25 - Marlowe continues driving | added-note chord | car | driving | fragmentation | hurried | leading man | parallelism | picardy third | private eye | sequential modulation | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Suspenseful) | 1:35:47 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | dark | diminution | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | shop | suspenseful |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian | 1:40:03 - Marlowe and Vivian kiss | 9th chord | 13th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | captive | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | foreign key modulation | freeing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | Neapolitan | private eye | romantic | room | suspension |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Questions | 1:40:44 - Vivian tries to free Marlowe | captive | chromatic parallelism | freeing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | private eye | room | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Canino's Death | 1:43:22 - Canino is shot | action scene | chromatic parallelism | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mirroring | outside | pc set | private eye | retrograde | stumbling | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:43:35 - Marlowe gets the keys to the handcuffs | action scene | chromatic parallelism | criminal | death | escaping | gun | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | pc set | private eye | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Driving 2 + Vivian | 1:44:16 - Vivian tells Marlowe she loves him | 9th chord | 13th chord | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | driving | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | love scene | ostinato | private eye | romantic | suspension | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Driving 2 + Vivian | 1:45:21 - Marlowe tells Vivian he loves her | 9th chord | 13th chord | arriving | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | driving | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | love scene | ostinato | private eye | romantic | suspension | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (Extended) | 1:45:45 - Marlowe and Vivian walk up to house | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | sequential modulation | tense | transition | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying | 1:47:07 - Marlowe and Vivian make a plan | chromatic sequence | climax | fragmentation | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | parallelism | planning | private eye | room | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian | 1:52:48 - Marlowe talks to Vivian | 9th chord | 13th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | Neapolitan | private eye | resolution | romantic | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian (Expressivo) | 1:53:20 - Marlowe pulls Vivian close | 9th chord | 13th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | private eye | resolution | romantic | room | suspension |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Leona | 1:36:26 - Leona watches | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic parallelism | climax | crowd | crying | doctor | harbor | leading lady | leading man | sailor | somber | watching | wife |
| Caged (1950) | Caged (Van Stops) | NIF - not in film | car | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | dark | dissonant bass | driving | guard | opening title sequence | police car | prisoner | riding | tense |
Caged (1950) | Swimmy | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | cut from film | disbelief | dissonant bass | fragmentation | guard | leading lady | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | reacting | realization | tense |
Caged (1950) | Train Whistle Hallucination | NIF - not in film | acceleration | agitated | bed | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crazy person | crying | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | glass | hallucinating | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | pedal tone | polychord | prison | prisoner | screaming | smashing |
Caged (1950) | Wailing + Train Whistle Hallucination | NIF - not in film | acceleration | agitated | bed | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | crazy person | crying | crying effect | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | glass | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | pedal tone | polychord | prison | prisoner | rushing | unlocking | wailing |
Caged (1950) | Agitato | NIF - not in film | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | cut from film | fragmentation | mad scene | ostinato | pc set | prison | 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) | Swimmy (Poco Agitato) | 0:43:53 - Mrs. Benton on the phone | advance plot | calling | cards | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dissonant bass | phone call | playing | prison | telephone | tense | warden |
Caged (1950) | Swimmy (Party) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | pedal tone | syncopation |
| 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) | Tone Poem B + Train | 0:01:19 - Sign for the Williamsburg Bridge | 9th chord | added-note chord | bridge | busy | chromatic parallelism | city | combination of themes | countermelody | hurried | Mixolydian mode | old man | police | train | transition | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy) | 0:01:33 - A cop tells a man to keep moving | 9th chord | 13th chord | bridge | chromatic parallelism | city | conversing | establish place | establish setting | old man | police | soliloquy | uneasy |
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 (Soliloquy) | 0:02:50 - Old-timer talks with cop | 9th chord | 13th chord | arguing | bluesy | bridge | chromatic parallelism | city | establish setting | old man | police | sentimental | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Cop Grabs Bum) | 0:03:06 - Cop pushes old-timer | 9th chord | arguing | bridge | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | city | comical | establish setting | mickey-mousing | old man | police | pushing | rushing | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy 2) | 0:05:44 - Old-timer talks to a stone carver | 9th chord | 13th chord | bluesy | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | establish character | fragmentation | love | old man | romantic | sentimental | soliloquy | street | worker |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 0:12:16 - Eddie plays the piano | 13th chord | brother | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | composer | conversing | describing | dissonant bass | establish character | explaining | leading man | musician | name of film | pentatonic | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Unattainable Stars) | 0:12:37 - Eddie plays the piano | brother | chromatic parallelism | composer | conversing | describing | establish character | explaining | leading man | musician | piano | playing | romantic | room | somber | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Fanfare | 0:22:58 - A trophy is brought out | award | bold | chromatic mediant | crowd | dance band | dance hall | dancer | dance scene | fanfare | leading lady | on-screen music | parallelism | presenting | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shadow Waltz (Ethereal) | 0:24:48 - Peggy peeks out of her door | added-note chord | advance plot | arriving | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | common-tone diminished 7th | entering | gentle | leading lady | mysterious | parallelism | room | sneaking | source to score |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A | 0:27:25 - Eddie composes at the piano | advance plot | brother | composer | composing | leading man | musician | on-screen music | parallelism | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Dolce) | 0:30:28 - Peggy talks to Danny | 9th chord | 11th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | common-chord modulation | conversing | flirting | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love scene | playful | room | shaving |
City for Conquest (1940) | Only Fooling | 0:30:54 - Peggy cleans Danny's face | arguing | common-tone modulation | conversing | diminished 7th chord | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love scene | parallelism | playful | room | shaving |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Expressivo) | 0:31:00 - Peggy apologizes to Danny | 9th chord | added-note chord | appoggiatura | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | foreign key modulation | kiss | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | parallelism | romantic | room |
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) | Tone Poem A (Stride Piano) | 0:43:27 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | boxer | brother | chord substitution | common-tone diminished 7th | composer | conversing | crowd | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | musician | on-screen music | parallelism | party | piano | playing | ragtime | source music | syncopation | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Peggy runs | 0:47:31 - Peggy runs down the stairs | boxer | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | dancer | descending | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mickey-mousing | running | source and scoring overlap | street | tense |
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) | 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) | 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) | 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 Introduction | 1:32:01 - Orchestra playing in a concert hall | 9th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | common-tone dominant 7th | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | double exposure | Dutch angle | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | score to source | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Introduction (Abbreviated) | 1:34:01 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | double exposure | Dutch angle | Gershwinesque | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | source music | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 3 | NIF - not in film | acceleration | bold | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert scene | cut from film | diminution | dominant 7th chord | exciting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | polyrhythm |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 1:34:24 - Peggy reacts to the music | 9th chord | 13th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | leading man | listening | musician | newspaper | newspaper stand | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | romantic | source music | street | watching | zoom out |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Lento) | 1:35:02 - Orchestra playing | 9th chord | audience | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | crying | leading lady | linear chromaticism | listening | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | polychord | romantic | somber | source music | tender | watching |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem D | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | blue note | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | concert scene | countermelody | cut from film | mode mixture | parallelism |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Soliloquy) | 1:42:56 - Old timer talks to himself | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | countermelody | old man | resolution | sentimental | soliloquy |
| Crime School (1938) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Starring and cast list | 9th chord | cast list | dissonant bass | dominant pedal | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | tense | title of film |
Crime School (1938) | Sue | 0:00:37 - Mugshots of main characters | blues | bluesy | main title | mode mixture | mug shot | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Quasi Blues) | 0:11:08 - Sue talks to Frankie | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | common-chord modulation | conversing | crying | establish character | foreign key modulation | Gershwinesque | heroine | leading lady | room | somber |
Crime School (1938) | The Courthouse | NIF - not in film | cut from film | deceptive resolution | noble | parallelism |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Minor) | 0:20:38 - Judge sentences boys to the reformatory | augmented sixth chord | chromatic parallelism | courthouse | crying | dissonant bass | gang | heroine | judge | leading lady | leading man | sister | somber | stinger | teenager | trial |
Crime School (1938) | The Patrol Wagon | 0:21:41 - Boys get loaded into the patrol wagon | car | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | dissonant bass | pedal tone | police car | traveling |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden | 0:23:15 - Warden stands up to face the boys | antagonist | arguing | augmented triad | authority | chromatic parallelism | establish character | falling | gang | lightning | ominous | police | reformatory | slapping | stinger | teenager | warden | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:27:46 - Warden approaches Frankie with a whip | chromatic parallelism | develop character | reformatory | rising | standing | teenager | tense | threatening | warden | whip |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:01 - Frankie escapes from the warden's office | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | mickey-mousing | ostinato | reformatory | running | teenager | tense | throwing | tone cluster | warden | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:21 - Boys wonder about the alarm | alarm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | escape | gang | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | whistle | wondering |
Crime School (1938) | Searchlights | 0:28:27 - Boys wonder about the searchlight | chromatic parallelism | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | searchlight | teenager | tense | wondering |
Crime School (1938) | Escaping | 0:28:32 - Frankie runs and hides | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Searchlights (Sneaking) | 0:28:47 - Frankie hides from the searchlight | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | jumping | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | searchlight | sneaking | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:29:09 - Frankie hides then runs | barbed wire fence | battle call | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | escaping | gang | hiding | jumping | mickey-mousing | reformatory | running | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Barbed Wire) | 0:29:18 - Frankie gets caught on barbed wire | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | pain | pc set | reformatory | struggling | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (The Guards) | 0:29:34 - Warden's guards run to catch Frankie | 64 chord | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | capturing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dragging | dramatic | escape | falling | pc set | police | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Dragging | 0:29:51 - Warden's guards drag Frankie through the rain | accented dissonance | anguished | capturing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | kicking | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | splashing | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Window closing | 0:30:05 - Boys close their window | chromatic parallelism | closing | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | somber | teenager | whole-tone scale | window |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:49:10 - Mark comes into the room | comedy | conversing | gang | gentle | hero | leading man | paint | parallelism | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Spots | 0:49:20 - Squirt has spots on his pajamas | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | comedy | comical | conversing | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | paint | reformatory | spots | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Unveiling the statue | 0:49:31 - Mark takes the veil off of the statue | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | comedy | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | tense | uncovering | unveiling |
Crime School (1938) | The Boiler Room | 0:54:27 - Boys talk about stoking the boiler | action scene | auctioning | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | gang | heroic | reformatory | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Kids running down | 0:56:17 - Kids run down stairs | action scene | chromatic parallelism | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | polychord | quartal chord | reformatory | running | stairs | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Running around | 0:56:37 - Boys run out of the building | action scene | chromatic parallelism | gang | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | reformatory | running | rushing | teenager | tense | worker |
Crime School (1938) | Fireman | 0:56:46 - Boiler room worker orders kids back | action scene | fanfare | gang | heroic | parallelism | pedal tone | protecting | reformatory | rushing | teenager | worker | yelling |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:50 - Mark goes to rescue Squirt | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | leading man | linear chromaticism | reformatory | rushing | saving | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising 2 | 0:57:12 - The temperature gauge rises | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | danger | dramatic | gauge | heat | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:55 - Frankie hits Spike | advance plot | anger | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Troubled) | 1:07:37 - Frankie is troubled about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conversing | gang | reformatory | teenager | thinking | troubled | worried |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Prison Moods) | 1:08:48 - Boys talk to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dissonant | dissonant bass | distortion | gang | minor second | mysterious | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:46 - Boys talk to Frankie | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | gang | gun | keys | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ominous | pc set | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:11:24 - Boys plot their escape | 9th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | escape | gang | plotting | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:12:21 - Cooper talks with the warden | chromatic parallelism | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | phone call | plotting | police | reformatory | telephone | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Resolution | 1:22:31 - Sue enters the room | 42 chord | antagonist | calm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | conversing | hero | leading man | reformatory | resolution | resolution | tense | tritone |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Allegretto) | 1:24:18 - Boys talk about Sue | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | courthouse | fragmentation | gang | optimistic | resolution | sequence | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (End Credits) | 1:24:49 - Cast list | added-note chord | bluesy | chromatic parallelism | closing credits | end title sequence | Gershwinesque | mode mixture | not by Steiner | upbeat |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring list | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | pedal tone | starring list | tense | title of film |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:17 - Johnnie sees his picture in the paper | angry | arguing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | fighting | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | photograph | ranch | teenager | tense | turning point | underscoring |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Mysterioso | 0:02:00 - Warden talks to Joe | conversing | drone | establish character | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | polytonality | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:02:29 - Joe reacts to the warden | 9th chord | 64 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dramatic | establish character | injustice | leading man | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Marching | 0:10:10 - Inmates marching | establish location | leading man | march | marching | parallelism | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Charlie (Extended) | 0:11:41 - Charlie talks to inmates | chromatic parallelism | dark | drunk | establish character | leading man | prison | prisoner | sequence | slapping | stinger | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Comedy fall | 0:13:08 - Joe falls over while milking the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | falling | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Humorous) | 0:13:13 - Joe talks to the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | conversing | cow | diminished triad | dissonant bass | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe fights cow | 0:13:56 - Joe fights cow (off-screen) | augmented triad | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | cow | diminished 7th chord | fighting | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Laughing) | 0:14:07 - Mabel laughs at Joe | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | diminished 7th chord | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Laughing | 0:14:10 - Mabel laughs at Joe | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | diminished 7th chord | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Medical Report) | 0:17:58 - Warden talks about Charlie | advance plot | leading lady | oppressive | parallelism | prison | warden |
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) | Dust Be My Destiny (Running Up and Down) | 0:30:12 - Man runs up the courthouse steps | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | courthouse | down | frantic | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | producer | running | stairs | street | up |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Here Comes the Bride (Triple) | 0:30:31 - Man talks to Joe and Mabel | 9th chord | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | courthouse | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | love scene | marriage | producer | pump-up modulation | romantic | sequence | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Agitato Risoluto | 0:35:11 - Joe and Mabel hide under the stairs | agitated | alley | chromatic parallelism | concerned | danger | escape | hiding | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | runaway | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:35:25 - Joe and Mabel talk in the alley | 9th chord | alley | chromatic parallelism | escape | fearful | leading lady | leading man | runaway | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Weary) | 0:37:38 - They rest by the side of the road | chromatic parallelism | conflict | leading lady | leading man | resting | runaway | street | tired |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Regret) | 0:39:53 - Joe walks away sadly | conflict | dark | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | runaway | somber | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Sordini) | 0:48:21 - Joe talks to the jailer | chromatic parallelism | jail | jail break | leading man | major triad | mysterious | pedal tone | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Trickery) | 0:48:45 - Joe talks to the jailer | distortion | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | jail | jail break | leading man | parallelism | passerby | shopkeeper | tense | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (The Escape) | 0:50:26 - Joe and Mabel leave the jail | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | escaping | foreign key modulation | friend | hopeful | jail | jail break | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Arguing) | 0:55:00 - Mabel confronts Joe | agitated | arguing | conflict | dark | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pc set | pleading | room |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Sehr Ominous) | 0:56:14 - Joe walks towards the shop | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | crime scene | criminal | leading man | mysterious | sequence | shop | shopkeeper | street | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:59:15 - A bank alarm sounds | 42 chord | 64 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crowd | dramatic | leading man | photographer | robbery | shopkeeper | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Buzzing | 1:01:05 - Men working in the dark room | 64 chord | action scene | added-note chord | buzzy | chromatic parallelism | dark room | enharmonic modulation | exciting | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | Neapolitan | newspaper | newspaper editor | parallelism | photographer | photography | pump-up modulation | Rimsky-Korsakov | working |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Mysterioso) | 1:05:26 - Joe talks to Mike | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | dark | leading man | linear chromaticism | newspaper editor | office | ominous | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:28 - Mike is confronted by gangsters | bribe | chromatic parallelism | conflict | gangster | linear chromaticism | newspaper editor | street | tense | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Gangsters walk | 1:10:26 - The gangsters walk to their car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | gangster | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | street | tense | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:10:32 - Joe runs after the car | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | running | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Brave) | 1:10:38 - Joe jumps onto the car | action scene | augmented triad | car | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fighting | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | street | whole-tone chord |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Appassionatissimo) | 1:13:14 - Joe makes a run for it | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | escaping | hospital | intervallic expansion | leading lady | leading man | runaway | sequence | tense |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Tragico) | 1:13:35 - Mabel turns Joe in to the police | confession | conflict | dark | hospital | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | suspect | tragic |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Religioso) | 1:22:41 - Mabel testifies for Joe | 11th chord | chromatic parallelism | common-tone diminished 7th | courtroom | crowd | diminished 7th chord | gentle | judge | jury | leading lady | leading man | loving | mode mixture | parallel double period | plagal cadence | sincere | suspect | tender | trial |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn A | 0:00:14 - Title of film | augmented triad | cast list | dark | diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | prison | title of film |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Newspaper Fanfare | 0:04:24 - Sign for "The Banton Record" newspaper office | conflict | fanfare | justice | newspaper office | noble | parallelism | sign |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Confusion | 0:05:43 - Frank sits confused in car after crash | accusing | car | car crash | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | confused | crowd | dissonant bass | fire | glass | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | injury | leading man | reporter | running | street | yelling |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Verdict | 0:08:19 - The verdict is delivered | banging | courtroom | courtroom scene | gavel | hero | judge | justice | lawyer | leading man | noble | parallelism | reporter | verdict |
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) | 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 |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Crime School | 0:00:08 - Starring list | 9th chord | dramatic | opening title sequence | parallelism | self-borrowing | starring list | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road | 0:00:18 - Book cover for Flamingo Road | blues | bluesy | book cover | cast list | establish setting | Gershwinesque | mode mixture | parallelism | self-borrowing | title of film |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Poco Con Moto) | NIF - not in film | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | deceptive resolution | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | parallelism | police | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | police | room | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Timidly) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | police | room | source to score |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Sentimentale) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | police |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 | 0:18:16 - A newspaper headline | chromatic parallelism | dark | headline | newspaper | politician | porch | self-borrowing | sheriff | throwing | transition | tritone |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Extended) | 0:30:27 - Field overhears people talking about Titus | advance plot | chromatic sequence | dark | leading man | mysterious | newspaper | parallelism | reading | self-borrowing | street | townsfolk |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Not in Film 2) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | newspaper editor | office | whole-tone chord |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | newspaper editor | office | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Agitato | 0:39:09 - Lane storms off angrily | agitated | angry | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | hurrying | leading lady | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Walking) | 0:39:17 - Lane storms off angrily | agitated | angry | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | hurrying | leading lady | mickey-mousing | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Agitato (Angry) | 0:45:50 - Dan argues with Titus | advance plot | anger | angry | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | club | leading lady | politician | polychord | self-borrowing | sheriff | smashing | stinger | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Drinking whiskey | 0:49:50 - Dan drinks | chromatic parallelism | comical | distressed | drinking | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | politician | quintal chord | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Chromatic) | 0:50:24 - Lane ties Dan's tie | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dark | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Agitato) | 0:50:41 - Lane ties Dan's tie | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | mysterious | politician | room | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Indigestion | 0:50:48 - Lane complains of a hangover | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | distressed | grumbling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Misterioso) | 0:51:15 - Lane asks Dan about Field | chromatic parallelism | conversing | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room | uneasy |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Bluesy) | 0:55:00 - Dan buys some cold drinks | 9th chord | altered dominant | bluesy | flirting | foreshadowing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mode mixture | parallelism | politician | porch | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Romantic) | 0:55:41 - Dan kisses Lane | embracing | foreign key modulation | foreshadowing | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mode mixture | parallelism | politician | porch | romantic | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Threatening) | 1:04:45 - Titus threatens Lane | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | threatening | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Slowly) | 1:06:43 - Dan talks to Lane about Titus | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | leading man | lying | room | self-borrowing | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Agitato (Angry) | 1:09:25 - Titus leaves | advance plot | agitated | angry | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | leading man | leaving | politician | polychord | sheriff | street | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus + Titus 2 | 1:09:43 - Titus bullies Field | advance plot | bullying | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | commanding | dark | leading man | ominous | ostinato | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street |
Flamingo Road (1949) | The Sheriff | 1:12:01 - Titus stands and walks | arguing | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | dark | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | standing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Anger | 1:12:20 - Titus and Field face off | angry | arguing | bullying | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | conflict | leading man | pc set | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Rising Anger | 1:12:26 - Titus throws open the door | angry | arguing | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | leading man | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:12:32 - Titus throws Field out the door | augmented triad | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | dark | dramatic | leading man | politician | polychord | pushing | room | sheriff | throwing | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Buzzer) | 1:13:16 - Titus arrives | arriving | chromatic parallelism | dark | entering | leading lady | maid | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | transition |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Appassionato | 1:19:10 - Dan argues with Lane | arguing | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | harmonic sequence | husband | leading lady | leading man | passionate | politician | room | wife | yearning |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Descending the Staircase) | 1:21:31 - Lane descends the stairs | advance plot | delicate | descending | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallelism | room | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:22:33 - Field stumbles through the house | chromatic parallelism | conversing | death scene | drunk | drunk | leading lady | leading man | love interest | room | somber | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Drunk) | 1:22:58 - Field and Lane talk about their past love | arguing | chromatic parallelism | death scene | diminished 7th chord | drunk | leading lady | leading man | love interest | room | somber |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Andante) | 1:24:05 - Lane goes to get a drink for Field | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | dark | death scene | gentle | gunshot | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mode mixture | room | self-borrowing | suicide | walking | warm |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Maestoso) | 1:26:31 - Dan reads a telegram about Field's death | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | reading | suicide | telegram | tragic | train | violent |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Mob | 1:28:20 - A mob forms outside of Lane's home | advance plot | angry | anxious | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | friend | leading lady | minor-major 7th chord | mob | mobbing | ostinato | polyrhythm | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Agitato (Angry) | 1:29:00 - Lane goes to confront Titus | advance plot | angry | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | dramatic | driving | leading lady | polychord | source and scoring overlap | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Ominous) | 1:30:55 - Titus pretends to make a phone call | calling | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dark | deceiving | gun | leading lady | mysterious | self-borrowing | sheriff | telephone |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:15 - Titus attacks Lane | attacking | breaking | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dramatic | dropping | gun | leading lady | linear chromaticism | oscillation | sheriff | staggering | stinger | telephone | tense | throwing | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Breaking door | 1:31:19 - Titus throws the phone at Lane | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dramatic | gun | leading lady | mickey-mousing | sheriff | telephone | throwing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Climax) | 1:31:43 - Lane struggles with Titus | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Ecstatic) | 1:33:37 - Lane walks away | added-note chord | altered dominant | artwork in score | chromatic parallelism | friend | husband | joyous | leading lady | leading man | leaving | prison | resolution | reuniting | romance | secondary dominant | The End | thematic transference | triumphant | wife |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Tense [Steiner]) | 1:12:07 - Steve talks to Candy | advance plot | arguing | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | gambler | henchman | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | slapping | tense | underscoring | warehouse |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Steiner]) | 1:14:17 - Cop looks at his watch | climax | conversing | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | henchman | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | police | reporter | room | singer | stinger | telephone | tense | underscoring | watch | wife |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Speeding | 1:14:21 - Policeman driving | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | dramatic | driving | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | omnibus progression | police | reporter | rushing | singer | tense | wife | yelling |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Steiner]) | 1:15:53 - Joe shoots at Steve | climax | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | dying | falling | gambler | gun | gunshot | henchman | husband | leading man | murder | murderer | parallelism | revenge | shooting | street | widow |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Speeding | 1:16:29 - Candy tries to run away | arriving | capturing | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | gambler | henchman | leading man | murder | murderer | omnibus progression | police | reporter | revenge | running | street | tense |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist | 0:00:09 - Title of film | bold | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dark | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | hallway | march | opening title sequence | oscillation | parallelism | stranger | title of film | tritone oscillation | zoom in |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist (Alternate) | NIF - not in film | alternate music | cast list | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | half-diminished 7th chord | opening title sequence | oscillation | parallelism | starring list | title of film | tritone oscillation | zoom in |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist (Pittsburgh) | 0:03:38 - Aerial view of Pittsburgh | augmented triad | bridge | busy | chromatic parallelism | city | establish setting | factory | frantic | machinery effect | oscillation | ostinato | panning shot | sequential modulation | tense | tone cluster | train | voice-over | whistle |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:24:58 - Matt reacts | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | departing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | insult | leading man | neighbor | reacting | room | stinger | transition | undercover agent |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Agitato Molto Misterioso | 0:38:32 - Matt notices that he has lost his letter | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading man | letter | mysterious | ostinato | pc set | polychord | reacting | room | searching | tense | undercover agent | whole-tone chord |
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 |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Agitato Molto Misterioso | 1:10:18 - Communists interrogate Matt | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | communist | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | mysterious | ostinato | pc set | questioning | room | shallow focus | suspicion | tense | undercover agent | whole-tone scale |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Riot | 1:11:05 - Communists beat up Matt | anger | attacking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | communist | dramatic | fighting | interrogation | leading man | punching | undercover agent | whole-tone chord |
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 |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Meno | 0:00:34 - Cast list | 64 chord | cast list | chromatic parallelism | deceptive resolution | dramatic | fanfare | opening title sequence | pedal tone | tritone |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (She Runs) | 0:07:32 - Stanley runs inside | arriving | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | diminution | establish character | hurried | leading lady | mickey-mousing | room | running | sequence | street |
In This Our Life (1942) | Caring | 0:13:08 - Roy talks to Peter | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | packing | parallelism | passionate | room | tender |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Rubato) | 0:14:34 - Roy talks with Peter | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dark | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | major 7th chord | playful | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Con Moto) | 0:22:19 - Roy talks about Stanley's letter | 13th chord | angry | bitter | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | father | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | letter | parallelism | pc set | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Risoluto) | 0:22:40 - Roy talks to Asa | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | deceptive resolution | father | gentle | leading lady | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Caring | 0:23:19 - Asa talks to Roy | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | father | leading lady | room | sentimental | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Asa (Ostinato) | 0:23:26 - Asa talks to Roy | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | dark | father | leading lady | ostinato | room | sequential modulation | serious | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Gloomy) | 0:28:32 - Roy walking in the park | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | dark | depressed | leading lady | leading man | park | sigh gesture | sitting | tritone substitution |
In This Our Life (1942) | Roy (Rubato) | 0:29:00 - Roy talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | major 7th chord | park | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Morendo) | 0:29:32 - Craig talks with Roy | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | conversing | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | park | somber |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (She Runs) | 0:32:24 - Stanley talks to Peter | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conversing | diminution | leading lady | leading man | playful | sequence | wedding | wedding |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:50:58 - Roy talks with Betty | added-note chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | friend | gentle | leading lady | parallelism | room | tender | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Caring | 0:51:39 - Roy greets Stanley | 9th chord | advance plot | arriving | chromatic parallelism | gentle | leading lady | room | sister | tender | widow |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley B (Slowly) | 1:06:13 - Stanley talks to Craig | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | dissonant bass | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:25 - Policemen approach the house | arriving | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | investigation scene | leading lady | mysterious | pedal tone | police | room | tense | walking | watching |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Molto Expressivo) | 1:12:57 - Stanley talks with Roy | 13th chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | calm | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | leading lady | lying | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Driving Away) | 1:29:06 - Craig goes to the phone | agitated | calling | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | climax | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | pedal tone | room | telephone | walking |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Desperate) | 1:34:02 - The police in hot pursuit | 9th chord | chase scene | chasing | chromatic parallelism | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dramatic | driving | fleeing | fragmentation | leading lady | police | street | tense |
| The Informer (1935) | Poster blowing 1 | 0:03:05 - Torn poster blows down the street onto Gypo's leg | augmented sixth chord | blowing | establish character | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallelism | poster | street | wind |
The Informer (1935) | Poster blowing 2 | 0:03:26 - Torn poster blows down the street onto Gypo's leg again | blowing | clinging | diminished 7th chord | establish character | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallelism | poster | street | wind |
The Informer (1935) | Katie | 0:04:31 - Katie walks down the street | establish character | foreign key modulation | leading lady | parallelism | seductive | staring | street | sultry | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Tired and Sad) | 0:05:49 - Katie talks to Gypo | conversing | crying | diminished 7th chord | establish character | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | Scotch snap | sobbing gesture | somber | street |
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 Wearin' o' the Green (Mysterious) | 0:08:57 - Frankie enters the Dunboy house to join the rebels | arriving | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | hero | Irish | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | room | street | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Fateful Decision) | 0:13:48 - Gypo heads towards the British headquarters | American | church bell | contemplating | deciding | diminished 7th chord | familiar tune | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallelism | patriotic tune | pedal tone | pivotal scene | police station | street | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Triste) | 0:22:38 - Katie appears at the window | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | conversing | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pub | sultry | watching |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Walking Fast) | 0:30:13 - Gypo storms off down the street | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | hurrying | leading man | Scotch snap | street | tense | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Accused) | 0:38:40 - Rebel accuses Gypo of being the informer | 64 chord | advance plot | conversing | headquarters | parallelism | rebel | room | suspicion | tense |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Bugle Call) | 0:39:25 - Rebels plan to watch Gypo | advance plot | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | headquarters | Irish | parallelism | rebel | room | tense |
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) | Dan and Mary | 0:55:53 - Dan and Mary talk alone | ABA structure | chromatic parallelism | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | embracing | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | love interest | love scene | love theme | mode mixture | passionate | pedal tone | romantic | room |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Molto Agitato) | 1:03:45 - Katie worries for Gypo | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | conversing | drunk | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | rebel | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Fighting) | 1:03:51 - Gypo struggles with the rebels | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dominant 7th chord | drunk | familiar tune | fighting | folk song | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | reassuring | rebel | sequence | street | struggling | syncopation |
The Informer (1935) | Gypo runs away | 1:21:26 - Gypo runs and hides | agitated | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | hiding | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | sequence | street | tense | traitor | transition |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Furioso) | 1:26:55 - Katie becomes desperate | advance plot | anxiety | begging | chromatic parallelism | despair | dissonant bass | fragmentation | leading lady | love interest | rebel | room | sentence form | sequence | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape (The Fight) | 1:28:25 - Rebels shoot through the door | antagonist | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climax | down | dramatic | escaping | falling | fighting | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | running | tense | traitor | whole-tone |
| 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) | Runners | 0:05:14 - Workers run through jungle | action scene | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | heroic | jungle | running | sequential modulation | servant | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:13:28 - Leslie continues her story | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | crying | dramatic | emotional | home | leading lady | oscillation | ostinato | passionate | pc set | recounting | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:14:07 - Leslie continues her story | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fragmentation | home | leading lady | pc set | polychord | recounting | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Andante Doloroso + Leslie | 0:15:53 - Men go to look at dead body | advance plot | combination of themes | dark | death | murder | parallelism | plantation | reveal | servant | sinister | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Dark) | 0:16:09 - Men look at dead body | advance plot | augmented major 7th chord | changing meter | chromatic parallelism | creeping | dark | death | dissonant bass | investigating | murder | pc set | plantation | servant | shadow | sinister |
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) | Leslie (Walking) | 0:30:58 - Leslie in jail | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | leading lady | mysterious | oscillation | prison | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tense) | 0:34:20 - Howard tells Leslie about the letter | 9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | suspenseful | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:34:47 - Howard gives Leslie the letter | altered dominant | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | deception | denying | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:35:11 - Leslie reacts angrily to the letter | arguing | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Denial | 0:35:39 - Leslie denies writing the letter | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pivotal scene | prison | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:37:07 - Howard reads the letter to Leslie | anxious | augmented triad | buildup | chromatic parallelism | fearful | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 0:40:57 - Leslie talks to Howard | advance plot | angry | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | deception | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | sequence | staring | tense |
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) | Glass Curtains | 0:59:08 - Mrs. Hammond enters through the glass curtain | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | curtain | entering | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Glass Curtains | 1:00:13 - Leslie faces Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | paying | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie + Glass Curtains | 1:01:27 - Leslie removes her shawl | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B + Glass Curtains | 1:01:57 - Leslie approaches Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 1:02:21 - Leslie faces Mr. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Contempt) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:40 - Leslie stoops down to pick up the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | contempt | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | stooping | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Dark) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:50 - Leslie looks at the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | dark | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Solemn) + Glass Curtains | 1:03:08 - Leslie and Howard leave | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | solemn | staring | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Bitter) | 1:08:54 - Leslie sees Mrs. Hammond in the courtroom | 11th chord | antagonist | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic parallelism | confronting | courtroom | dark | husband | leading lady | trial |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Wild) | 1:14:57 - Robert waits for a response | 9th chord | arguing | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | conflict | distress | fragmentation | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | lying | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Molto Agitato) | 1:15:28 - Robert argues with Leslie | arguing | chromatic parallelism | conflict | distress | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | sequence | tense |
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) | Leslie (Rising) + Deception | 1:17:52 - Leslie confesses to Robert | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | ostinato | recounting | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Dirge) | 1:29:32 - Leslie heads towards the door | Chinese | climax | dark | dirge | home | leading lady | parallelism | somber | walking |
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) | Shadow | 1:30:30 - Leslie leaves the house | chromatic parallelism | climax | leading lady | major triad | mysterious | plantation | polychord | shadow | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Native (Climactic) | 1:30:42 - Leslie walks through her garden | climax | crying | Dorian mode | exoticism | gamelan | Indonesian music | leading lady | mysterious | panning shot | parallelism | plantation | setting | somber | walking |
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 |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Lightning 2 | 0:00:41 - Title card, cast list and prison | cast list | chromatic parallelism | dark | opening title sequence | parallelism | pedal tone | self-borrowing | thunder effect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Fear | 0:19:42 - Shelly lies down in the dark | actor | chromatic parallelism | darkness | establish character | fear | leading lady | leading man | listening | room | suspect | tense | thinking | whole-tone chord |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly and Trev (Smile) | 0:20:20 - Shelly looks at Trev | actor | calm | chromatic parallelism | establish character | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | looking | morning | peaceful | room | sleeping | smiling | staring | suspect | thinking | waking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Molto Agitato | 0:32:50 - String gets angry | actor | anger | arguing | brother | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | priest | rancher | room | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Poco Meno) | 0:33:06 - String argues | actor | anger | arguing | brother | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | priest | rancher | room | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Searching | 0:40:06 - Shelly looks for Trev | actor | advance plot | agitated | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | minor 7th | rancher | searching | street | walking | whole-tone chord |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Misterioso) | 0:40:30 - Shelly and Liza talk | actor | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dissonant bass | glass | leading lady | mysterious | pedal tone | rancher | street | underscoring | uneasy | walking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Fear | 0:46:12 - Shelly is scared and can't move | actor | chromatic parallelism | cliff | clinging | countryside | dark | falling in love scene | fear | heights | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | tense | whole-tone chord |
| 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 (Pier) | 0:02:15 - Santa Monica pier at night | chromatic parallelism | dock | establish character | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | pondering | sequence | somber | walking | water | wave |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone chord | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally walks | 0:10:32 - Wally hurriedly walks away | action scene | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | room | victim | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Hall of Justice | 0:13:35 - The Los Angeles Hall of Justice | advance plot | arriving | bold | detective | entering | heroine | justice | leading lady | parallelism | pedal tone | police | police station | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Delicate) | 0:32:04 - Mildred walks up the stairs | advance plot | gentle | heroine | leading lady | parallelism | pedal tone | room | up | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Coy) | 0:32:32 - Veda talks to her mother | advance plot | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | heroine | leading lady | parallelism | room | sleeping | uneasy |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Waltz Fantasy) | 0:32:38 - Veda fantasizes about her mother marrying Wally | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | child | chromatic parallelism | dreaming | fantasy | greed | heroine | leading lady | room | uneasy |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Deception) | 0:33:08 - Veda lies to her mother | 64 chord | advance plot | child | chromatic parallelism | deceiving | deception | heroine | leading lady | room | selfishness | unstable | whole-tone |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Dolce Foxtrot) | 0:33:37 - Mildred puts Veda to bed | 64 chord | added-note chord | advance plot | child | chromatic parallelism | dark | heroine | leading lady | mode mixture | optimistic | promising | room | tragic |
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) | Mildred (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | tender |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:42:58 - Mildred and Wally walk to the house | added-note chord | arriving | beach house | excited | friend | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | ocean | parallelism | transition | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:49:48 - Driving to the beach house | 9th chord | beach house | cheerful | driving | falling in love scene | friend | heroine | leading lady | parallelism | room | traveling | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Pneumonia (Dying) | 0:55:24 - Kay passes away | 9th chord | child | chromatic parallelism | dark | death | death scene | doctor | dying | ex-husband | heroine | illness | leading lady | linear chromaticism | minor-major 7th chord | nurse | oscillation | patient | room | sick person | somber | tense | treating | turning point | waiting | watching |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Angry) | 1:18:21 - Mildred walks out of an argument | 9th chord | aggressive | angry | arriving | chromatic parallelism | conflict | heroine | hurrying | leading lady | leaving | Neapolitan | room | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:18:34 - Veda tells her mother she is married | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | conflict | conversing | daughter | diminished 7th chord | friend | heroine | leading lady | oscillation | reverse stinger | room | tense | underscoring |
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) | Kay and Veda (Coy) | 1:19:11 - Veda talks to her mother | antagonist | apologizing | chromatic parallelism | conflict | daughter | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Waltz Fantasy) | 1:19:18 - Mildred talks to Veda | 9th chord | antagonist | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | comforting | conflict | daughter | dream-like | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tenderly) | 1:19:37 - Wally talks about a settlement | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | daughter | fragmentation | friend | heroine | leading lady | pedal tone | room | tender |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Vicious) | 1:23:21 - Veda insults her mother | angry | antagonist | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | conflict | daughter | heroine | insulting | leading lady | reverse stinger | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Coy 2) | 1:44:37 - Veda is brought in by the police | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | daughter | deceiving | deception | detective | entering | interrogating | interrogation | parallelism | police station | questioning | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Waltz Fantasy) | 1:44:53 - Mildred tells Veda not to confess | 9th chord | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | detective | harsh | heroine | interrogating | interrogation | leading lady | pleading | police station |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:45:37 - Mildred finds Veda and Monte together | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | dark | daughter | discovering | kissing | linear chromaticism | reveal | room | stinger | tense |
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 |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | London Bridge is Falling Down | 0:03:31 - Children dancing in a circle | cheerful | child | children's song | dancing | establish setting | parallelism | park | pedal tone | playing |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:51:06 - Joan talks with Vergie | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | child | chromatic parallelism | conversing | daughter | foreign key modulation | gentle | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop | timid |
| 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) | The Moon Is In Tears Tonight (The Kid) | 0:50:05 - Louise looks at her Kid Galahad scrapbook | advance plot | cheerful | countermelody | not by Steiner | organizing | parallelism | room | scrapbook | sister | transcribed by ear |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising) | 0:43:06 - Larry walks into his office | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | law office | lawyer | office | ostinato | sequence | transition | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising) | 1:09:33 - The art shop is locked | lawyer | ostinato | parallelism | sequence | shop | tense | transition | worrying |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Appassionato | 0:03:13 - Gerald is scolded by his mother | antagonist | boy | child | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | deceptive resolution | dominant 7th chord | establish character | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | hero | home | linear chromaticism | mother | passionate | scolding | sequence | telling a story | tense |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Imagination) | 0:03:55 - David talks to his son | boy | child | chromatic parallelism | establish character | father | gentle | hero | home | playful | sweet | telling a story |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Tommy | 0:08:41 - David and Tommy talk about cats | 64 chord | boy | cat | deceptive resolution | doctor | establish character | hero | mode mixture | office | parallelism | playful |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica | 0:10:01 - Jessica enters the room | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | establish character | half-diminished 7th chord | office | sour | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Imagination) | 0:10:16 - Jessica rushes David away | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | classical music | establish character | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | office | playful | quotation |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Quasi Rubato) | 0:12:46 - David treats Leni's leg | classical music | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | fragmentation | gentle | Haydn | hero | heroine | parallelism | playful | quotation | room |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Whee! | 0:23:57 - David flips his son upside down playfully | advance plot | boy | child | father | hero | home | jumping | mickey-mousing | parallel 63s | parallelism | playful | playing | spinning |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica (Upset) | 0:24:32 - Jessica enters and stops the conversation | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic scale | conversing | dark | home | parallelism | upset | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Drifting) | 0:38:09 - Jessica tells Leni to leave | altered dominant | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | German | heroine | home | quotation | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jessica | 0:45:10 - Jessica enters the room | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | home | mother | room | sour |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Expanded) | 0:45:36 - Leni hugs Gerald | advance plot | boy | child | chromatic parallelism | classical music | dissonant bass | familiar tune | Haydn | heroine | home | hugging | quotation | room | sweet |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Turbulent) | 0:50:14 - Jessica reacts to David's departure | 11th chord | angry | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | classical music | conflict | crying | dark | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | home | husband | leaving | quotation | room | sad | tragic | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Birds (Extended) | NIF - not in film | augmentation | birds | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | inversion | pastoral | pentatonic |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Drifting) | 1:14:30 - David gives Leni money for her travels | altered dominant | arrest | arresting | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | dark | death | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | German | happy | hero | heroine | mode mixture | murder | police | quotation | sad | sweet | tense | train station | whole-tone chord |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Birds | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | pastoral | pentatonic |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun (Introduction) | 0:00:15 - Title and cast list on placards | 9th chord | cheerful | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | sequence | syncopation | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Cute! | 0:01:58 - Gossip column about a gambler | altered dominant | bluesy | conversing | establish setting | gossip | newspaper | parallelism | sultry | transcribed by ear | whole-tone |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing of the Olympic | 0:15:16 - William on the deck of a busy ship | AB structure | advance plot | boat | bustling | chromatic sequence | crowd | hurried | leading man | metric dissonance | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Strolling the Deck (Argument) | 0:16:14 - Camera moves from one window to another | advance plot | boat | cheerful | eavesdropping | fragmentation | leading man | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing of the Olympic (Argument) | 0:16:24 - Two people argue | advance plot | arguing | boat | eavesdropping | leading man | parallelism | tense | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing of the Olympic (Commotion) | 0:16:39 - Four people talk at once to Mildred | advance plot | arguing | argument | boat | chromatic sequence | eavesdropping | hurried | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | parallelism | tense | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sidewalks of New York (Harbor) | 0:20:07 - New York City skyline | calm | countermelody | New York | parallelism | popular music | setting | transcribed by ear | transition | traveling |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing 2 | 0:21:30 - Boat cuts through the waves | boat | parallelism | sailing | sailor | tense | transcribed by ear | transition | waves | whole-tone |
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 |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Penguin Pool Murder | 0:00:23 - Main title, starring list, and cast list | cast list | chromatic parallelism | diminution | diving | double exposure | dramatic | hemiola | linear chromaticism | mysterious | opening title sequence | penguin | pool | starring list | swimming | tense | thematic transformation | through-composed | title of film | transcribed by ear | whirlpool | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Fish | 0:01:32 - Fish | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | establish setting | fish | fluttering | stinger | transcribed by ear | underwater | whole-tone chord |
| State’s Attorney (1932) | Blues (Double Time) | 0:01:04 - Cast list | blue note | blues | bluesy | cast list | diminution | exciting | Gershwinesque | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | title of film | transcribed by ear |
| The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Crestwood C | 0:02:18 - Cast list and the first scene | cast list | Lydian mode | mysterious | opening title sequence | parallelism | transcribed by ear |
| The Roadhouse Murder (1932) | Storm Music | 0:00:14 - Main title and cast list | cast list | not by Steiner | opening title sequence | parallelism | storm | title of film | tremolo | wind |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | The Swami | 0:07:16 - The swami | Aeolian mode | antagonist | conversing | establish character | fortune | fortune teller | leading lady | parallelism | predicting | room | somber | swami | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | The Swami (Past Life) | 0:08:18 - The swami talks to Ursula | antagonist | chromaticism | chromatic parallelism | conversing | establish character | fortune teller | leading lady | room | somber | swami | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | The Swami (Rising Tension) | 0:09:53 - The swami shrinks from Ursula's gaze | antagonist | conversing | establish character | fate | fortune teller | leading lady | mysterious | parallelism | room | swami | tense | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Mysterious Waltz) | 0:33:37 - Ursula talks to Burns | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | love interest | mode mixture | romantic | room | transcribed by ear | waltz |
| Before Dawn (1933) | Before Dawn C | 0:00:44 - Cast list over walking feet | cast list | double exposure | Lydian mode | mysterious | opening title sequence | parallelism | self-borrowing | transcribed by ear | walking |
| Blind Adventure (1933) | My Imaginary Sweetheart | 0:00:32 - Credits over a foggy background | AABA structure | cast list | cheerful | chromatic parallelism | mode mixture | opening title sequence | popular music | secondary dominant | transcribed by ear | video cast list |
| Emergency Call (1933) | Ambulance | 0:00:11 - Main titles over a speeding ambulance | ambulance | augmented triad | dissonant bass | Dorian mode | dramatic | driving | half-diminished 7th chord | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | paramedic | pedal tone | siren | street | through-composed | whole-tone |
| Headline Shooter (1933) | You Bunch of Fun (Introduction) | 0:00:15 - Title and starring list over camera lens montage | 9th chord | boat | camera lens | car | cast list | cheerful | chromatic parallelism | kaleidoscope effect | opening title sequence | plane | racing | reused recording | sequence | split screen | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Headline Shooter (1933) | You Bunch of Fun (Transition) | 0:01:08 - Video cast list | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | excited | opening title sequence | parallelism | pedal tone | reused recording | transcribed by ear | video cast list |
| Sing and Like It (1934) | King Kong March | 0:58:31 - Annie's name in lights | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | arriving | binary form | boss | common-tone diminished 7th | critic | crowd | dressing room | fanfare | fanfare | gangster | leading lady | lobby | mode mixture | neon lights | parallelism | self-borrowing | singer | street | theater | worker |
| Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Sidewalks of New York (Waltz) | 0:00:11 - Tugboats sailing under a bridge | boat | cheerful | city | establish place | establish setting | parallelism | popular song | sailing | transcribed by ear |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Murder Fanfare | 0:00:23 - Film title zooming out from a blackboard | blackboard | dark | fanfare | opening title sequence | parallelism | pedal tone | title of film | transcribed by ear |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Janitor | 0:01:30 - A janitor gets out of bed | diminished 7th chord | dressing | establish character | janitor | mysterious | parallelism | school | transcribed by ear | waking | walking |
| 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 |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Crestwood C | 0:00:27 - Cast list | cast list | guard | Lydian mode | mysterious | opening title sequence | parallelism | prison | prisoner | transcribed by ear |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Suicide Transition | 0:26:55 - Bob sits | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | plotting | preparing | reading | robbery | room | sequence | shooting | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Crestwood C | 0:00:31 - Cast list | Lydian mode | mysterious | opening title sequence | parallelism | transcribed by ear |
We're Only Human (1935) | Gypo Runs Away | 0:27:09 - Pete and Danny hide | action scene | agitated | chromatic parallelism | detective | diminished 7th chord | gangster | hiding | leading man | street | tense |
We're Only Human (1935) | Kong 1 | 0:28:23 - Pete jumps on a criminal | action scene | bank | chromatic parallelism | detective | dramatic | fighting | gangster | jumping | leading man | pedal tone | punching | tense |
We're Only Human (1935) | Katie (Triste) | 0:28:47 - Pete talks to the criminal | action scene | arguing | bank | detective | foreign key modulation | gangster | leading man | parallelism | stinger | sultry |
We're Only Human (1935) | Kong 3 | 1:01:06 - Pete leaves | car | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | departing | detective | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | hurried | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | reporter | rushing | sequence | street | victim |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 2 | 1:01:56 - Witness threatens to kill the criminals | acceleration | arguing | car | car | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | driving | hurried | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | reporter | rushing | threat | threatening | victim |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 3 | 1:02:23 - Approaching the house | chromatic parallelism | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | reporter | sneaking | tense | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Fighting) | 1:03:42 - Pete prepares to advance | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | fragmentation | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | reporter | running | sequence | shooting | tense | underscoring | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 5 | 1:05:03 - Pete prepares to shoot | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | gunshot | leading man | murderer | pc set | pedal tone | room | shooting | sneaking | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 7 | 1:05:48 - Pete runs up the stairs | 9th chord | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | parallelism | pc set | pedal tone | room | running | rushing | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
| Another Face (1935) | Suicide Transition | 0:01:57 - Gangsters arrive at doctor's office | arriving | conversing | doctor | establish setting | gangster | mysterious | office | parallelism | pedal tone |
Another Face (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:30 - Gangster talks with nurse | chromatic parallelism | conversing | doctor | establish character | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | nurse | office | tense | underscoring |
Another Face (1935) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:03:08 - Gangster smoking in chair | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | establish character | gangster | office | smoking | tense | underscoring | waiting |
Another Face (1935) | Zaroff (Poco Agitato) | 0:05:01 - Nurse argues with doctor | advance plot | arguing | blackmail | chromatic parallelism | doctor | half-diminished 7th chord | nurse | operating room | tense |
| Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:56:40 - Kitty and Harper | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dark | guard | low-angle shot | pc set | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | shadow | threatening | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Prison Alarm (The Scream) | 1:00:42 - Marie covers her ears | alarm | alarm effect | anxiety | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | fidgeting | guard | hysteria | leading lady | mad scene | prison | prisoner | screaming | tense | tone cluster | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Hysteria | 1:00:55 - Marie runs down the hall | alarm | anxiety | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | guard | hysteria | leading lady | mad scene | pc set | polychord | prison | prisoner | running | tense |
Caged (1950) | Water Dripping + Caged (Tense) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | combination of themes | cut from film | dark | dissonant bass | hysteria | isolation | leading lady | mad scene | melodic cell | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ostinato | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | tense | uneasy | water effect |
Caged (1950) | Water Dripping (Frantic) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | cut from film | dark | dissonant bass | frantic | hysteria | isolation | mad scene | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallel 63s | pc set | prison | tense | uneasy | water effect |
Caged (1950) | Molto Expressivo (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | prison | solemn | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:32:21 - Marie unpacks her belongings | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | leaving | prison | prisoner | tense | underscoring | unpacking | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Molto Expressivo (Rubato) | 1:32:37 - Marie checks out | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | guard | leading lady | leaving | prison | prisoner | solemn | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Checking Out) | 1:32:47 - Marie opens an envelope | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | guard | leading lady | leaving | looking | polychord | prison | prisoner | ring | solemn | throwing |
Caged (1950) | Isolation Ward (The End) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | climax | cut from film | dramatic | pc set | uneasy |
| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Resolution) + Falling Snow (Resolution) | 2:22:03 - Henry talks to Henriette | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conversing | diminished third chord | gentle | leading lady | minister | mode mixture | promising | resolution | school | snow | teacher |
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