| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 - Frankies 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 chords | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | falling in love | 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 |
| 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 |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Deception) | 0:33:08 - Veda lies to her mother | advance plot | child | deceiving | deception | heroine | leading lady | parallelism | room | selfish | unstable |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) | Saroff (Mysterioso) | 0:05:01 - Nurse argues with doctor | advance plot | arguing | blackmail | chromatic parallelism | doctor | half-diminished 7th chord | nurse | operating room | tense | whole-tone chord |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) | 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 |
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