The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Eine kleine Nachtmusik | 0:35:00 - Phonograph plays Mozart record | advance plot | doctor | gangster | leading man | Mozart | neutral | plotting | record player | room | source music | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Eine kleine Nachtmusik | 0:41:57 - Phonograph plays Mozart record | advance plot | doctor | gangster | leading man | moll | Mozart | neutral | plotting | record player | room | source music | 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) | Rocks | 0:57:55 - Rocks has an idea | advance plot | antagonist | gangster | plotting | room | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo (At the Phone) | 0:59:24 - Rocks takes the phone apart | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | dark | gangster | leading lady | ominous | plotting | room | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Lento) | 0:12:31 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | mysterious | plotting | room | sequence | tender | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Grazioso Con Moto) | 0:13:16 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | brother | cheerful | conversing | crazy person | delicate | foreign key modulation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | plotting | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Grazioso) | 0:13:34 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | conversing | leading lady | magical | plotting | room | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:45 - Jonathan follows Dr. Einstein | advance plot | altered dominant | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | digging | dissonant bass | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | on-screen music | patriotic tune | pc set | plotting | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | tone cluster | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:50:20 - Jonathan and Dr. Einstein talk | advance plot | brother | crazy person | criminal | digging | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | Neapolitan | on-screen music | parallel 63s | patriotic tune | pedal tone | plotting | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:56:27 - Einstein looks around in the dark | advance plot | brother | crazy person | dark | darkness | descending | doctor | leading man | match | murderer | plotting | room | sneaking | underscoring |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Varsovienne | 1:04:52 - Moose talks with Mr. Latimer | conversing | dance scene | folk music | friend | friend | leading lady | leading man | love interest | on-screen music | party | plotting | proposal | room | sneaking | source music | square dance music | upbeat |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:16:20 - Rosa stares out the window | advance plot | departing | leading lady | maid | murderer | mysterious | plotting | room | street | underscoring | walking | watching |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Running (A Little Heavier) | 1:16:28 - Rosa heads downstairs | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | murderer | mysterious | plotting | room | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Risoluto) | 1:52:01 - Marlowe walks to the phone | bold | death | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | plotting | private eye | resolution | room | tense |
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) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:12:35 - The boys walk through the city | escape | gang | mysterious | pedal tone | plotting | sneaking | street | teenager | tense |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Molto Grazioso) | 1:41:41 - Clementi plans how to keep his money | flashback | money | plan | plotting |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Somebody Loves Me | 0:25:19 - Politicians plot | AABA structure | advance plot | club | leading man | plotting | police | politician | sentimental | sheriff | source music |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 1:24:38 - Amato talks to detective | advance plot | detective | gangster | leading man | mysterious | plotting | police station | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:24:53 - Amato talks to detective | advance plot | detective | gangster | leading man | plotting | police station | tense |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:25:21 - Amato sets up Lye and Kay | advance plot | betraying | detective | gangster | harsh | leading man | plotting | police station | tense |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:27:23 - Stanley reacts | climax | conversing | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | plotting | room | suspect | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Plotting) | 0:39:32 - Howard and Leslie plot their next move | 9th chord | advance plot | buildup | changing meter | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | minor-major 7th chord | ominous | oscillation | plotting | tense |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Darktown Strutters' Ball | 0:40:06 - Sadie and Mike in a bar | advance plot | business man | club | common-chord modulation | conversing | friend | love interest | plotting | ragtime | source music | upbeat |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Plotting) | 0:42:32 - Larry storms out of the art collector's shop | advance plot | antagonist | door | plotting | shop | sinister | slamming |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting | 0:12:45 - Ma warns Cody of Zuckie talking | planning | plotting |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Ugly) | 0:13:06 - Cotton goes back; Ma and Cody talk | planning | plotting |
White Heat (1949) | Danger | 1:50:14 - Cody talks to his partner Riley | gangster | plotting |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum (Dark) | 1:09:26 - Fosco talks to Sir Percival | aching | antagonist | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | plotting | prisoner | room |
The Woman in White (1948) | Hypnosis + Fosco | 1:30:32 - Count Fosco leaves | antagonist | carriage | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnotist | leading man | leaving | murderer | ominous | plotting | spy | spying | street | tense | transition |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Eldorania | 0:59:14 - A doctor tends to Spider's leg | advance plot | athlete | comic | conversing | doctor | field | plotting | prisoner | referee | relative key | source music | treating | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | El Capitan March | 1:01:51 - Spider makes Whitey sign a confession | advance plot | comic | criminal | field | plotting | prisoner | source music | upbeat |
Sing and Like It (1934) | It's Sunday Down in Caroline | 0:04:11 - Fenny prepares for a meeting | AABA structure | boss | conversing | establish character | gangster | jazz | laughing | leading lady | leading man | moll | plotting | radio | room | source music | upbeat |
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 |
Girl of the Rio (1932) | Querida | 0:38:14 - Dolores sings and plays the guitar | ABAC structure | advance plot | conversing | crowd | leading lady | night club | on-screen music | plotting | prison | romantic | singer | singing | source music | terrace | whistling |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Approach (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:46:16 - Bob jumps over the crevice | action scene | agitated | jungle | leading lady | leading man | plotting | preparing | tense | trap | victim | working |