Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Arguing) | 0:55:00 - Joe tries to leave with a gun and Mabel tries to stop him | agitated | arguing | conflict | dark | hero | heroine | parallelism | pc set | pleading | room |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Risoluto) | 0:14:07 - Leslie gets back up to continue her story | advance plot | augmented triad | dramatic | fragmentation | home | leading lady | parallelism | pc set | polychord | recounting | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Dark) | 0:16:09 - Men look at dead body | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | creeping | dark | death | distortion | investigating | murder | pc set | plantation | servant | shadow | sinister |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Mysterioso) | 0:30:04 - Howard in his office | advance plot | lawyer | mysterious | office | pc set | quartal chord | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Lawyer) | 0:30:45 - Howard speaks with his secretary | advance plot | Chinese | lawyer | leaving | mysterious | office | pc set | tritone |
The Letter (1940) | Deception | 0:34:35 - Leslie lies about the letter | chromatic | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Risoluto) | 0:35:11 - Leslie decides how to defend her having written the letter | arguing | augmented triad | deception | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | parallelism | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Letter (Agitato) | 0:36:08 - Leslie changes her mind and admits to having written the letter | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Risoluto) | 0:37:07 - Howard reads the letter to Leslie | anxious | augmented triad | buildup | fearful | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | parallelism | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | reading | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Molto Agitato) | 1:15:28 - Robert argues with Leslie | arguing | conflict | distress | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | parallelism | pc set | tense |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Attack) | 0:08:40 - Man takes Chris inside her house and attacks her | advance plot | antagonist | attacking | criminal | danger | fighting | house | leading lady | ostinato | pc set | shadow | sinister | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris screams | 0:08:53 - Chris screams | advance plot | antagonist | criminal | danger | house | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pc set | screaming | shadow | sinister | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Attack) | 1:13:06 - Bob attacks the art shop owner | angry | antagonist | attacking | fighting | husband | ostinato | pc set | pivotal scene | room | widow | zoom in |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery | 0:00:45 - Cast list and balancing scales | augmented triad | balancing | cast list | chromaticism | main title | mysterious | mystery | opening title sequence | pc set | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery (Bank Closed) | 0:01:25 - Notice posted on the door | arguing | chromaticism | crowd | mysterious | mystery | noise | pc set | street | transcribed by ear | transition |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery (Sandwich) | 0:15:25 - A mysterious hand puts a secret note in a sandwich | advance plot | antagonist | chromaticism | hand | mysterious | mystery | party | pc set | sneaking | transcribed by ear |
The Public Defender (1931) | Mystery (Note) | 0:16:14 - Man discovers mysterious note in sandwich | advance plot | augmented triad | banker | chromaticism | discovery | dramatic | eating | mysterious | mystery | party | pc set | sandwich | source and scoring overlap | transcribed by ear | waiter |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Suicide) | 0:24:18 - Helen commits suicide | antagonist | chromaticism | committing suicide | dying | exotic | exoticism | gun | gunshot | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pc set | pedal tone | stinger | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |