| 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) | 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) | 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 Motor (Getting Colder) | 0:49:43 - The vault gets colder | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch goes downstairs | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Butch) | 0:50:45 - Butch searches for the doctor | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pedal tone | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs back | 0:50:52 - Butch runs back from the window | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
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) | Lighting the Torch + The Motor | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief | torch | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch + The Motor (Watchman Crawling) | 0:51:41 - Watchman struggles to sound the alarm | alarm | anxious | chromatic scale | crawling | dramatic | guard | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pc set | robbery | store | struggle | tense |
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) | 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) | Cauldron 1 (End title) | 1:26:33 - The End | beaker | bubbling | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | closing credits | doctor | end title | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | ominous | plagal cadence |
| 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) | Explosion | 0:07:16 - Building explodes after car drives by | bomb | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | establish character | explosion | gangster | mickey-mousing | montage | polychord | street | throwing |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Headlines) | 0:07:21 - Newspaper headline | dark | establish character | headline | main title | montage | mysterious | newspaper | octatonic scale | pedal tone | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Rocky and Laury (Not In Film 2) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | conversing | cut from film | establish character | following | gangster | leading lady | leading man | street | walking |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | altered dominant | chromatic scale | cut from film |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Hurrying | 1:10:54 - A newspaper editor gives orders to his men | assigning | chromatic scale | commanding | dissonant bass | hurried | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office |
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) | Frazier gets shot | 1:16:56 - Frazier gets shot and dies | agitated | casino | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going down a ladder | 1:17:32 - Rocky goes down an escape ladder | agitated | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | descending | down | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hurrying | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running on wall | 1:17:55 - Rocky runs on wall | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | rooftop | running | sequence |
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 down stairs | 1:19:05 - Rocky runs down the stairs | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | down | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | stairs | stairwell |
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) | 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) | Rocky runs | 1:25:13 - Rocky makes a run for it | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading man | octatonic | priest | running | sequence | shooting | street | whole-tone chord |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:20 - Rocky throws his gun | capturing | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | leading man | police | sequence | street | throwing | underscoring |
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 (Whole Tone) | 0:21:11 - A view of the city | dreaming | leading man | montage | pedal tone | room | somber | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Allegro) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | mysterious | octatonic | somber | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Listesso Tempo) | 0:30:13 - Eddie commits a crime | angry | chromatic scale | double exposure | dreaming | dream sequence | fragmentation | hectic | leading man | montage | room |
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 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Chromatic) | 0:00:21 - Cast list | 64 chord | cast list | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | dramatic | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | opening title sequence |
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) | 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) | Here Comes the Bride (Elaine Whistles) | 0:23:44 - Elaine whistles out of her window | agitated | bride | cheerful | chromatic scale | dark | diminished 7th chord | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | room | scored source music | source music | turning point | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Running) | 0:23:58 - Mortimer runs to the door | 9th chord | 13th chord | aunt | bride | child | chromatic scale | crazy person | dark | familiar tune | groom | Halloween | intervallic expansion | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | running | rushing | source music | source to score | trick-or-treating | turning point |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:40:30 - Jonathan enters the house | arriving | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | close-up | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | establish character | leading man | observing | ominous | pc set | room | walking | zoom in |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:43:08 - Jonathan talks about the operation | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | establish character | grabbing | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | struggling | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:49:12 - Jonathan threatens the aunts | advance plot | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:52:48 - Jonathan comes in the window | advance plot | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | dark | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | staring | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Funeral March | 0:55:21 - Teddy carries the body down the stairs | advance plot | brother | carrying | chromatic scale | corpse | crazy person | darkness | diminution | dirge | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | funeral march | linear chromaticism | ominous | ostinato | room | tritone | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Blows out match | 0:56:48 - Einstein blows out the match | advance plot | blowing | brother | crazy person | darkness | doctor | extinguishing | leading man | match | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | tense | whole-tone scale |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 (Dark) | 0:57:04 - Jonathan exits | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | dark | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | falling | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | stinger |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:58:10 - Someone knocks at the door | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | crazy person | darkness | doctor | knocking | leading man | murderer | pc set | room | sequence | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:58:55 - Jonathan emerges from the shadows | advance plot | bride | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pc set | questioning | room | sinister |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 (Ominous) | 1:00:36 - Jonathan backs Elaine into a corner | advance plot | anger | augmented triad | bride | brother | chromatic scale | crazy person | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | hurting | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | polychord | questioning | room | stinger | tense | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Panic | 1:31:48 - Einstein agrees to do the torture | alcohol | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | oscillation | panicked | panicking | polychord | room | sequence | split-third chord | tense | torturing | victim |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Flirtation | 0:01:42 - Carmen flirts with Marlowe | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:45 - Marlowe goes to meet Sternwood | 9th chord | altered dominant | butler | chromatic scale | establish character | leading man | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | walking |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (City Struck) | 0:02:03 - Old-timer talks with cop | 9th chord | bridge | chromatic scale | city | conversing | establish setting | excited | old man | police | soliloquy |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Cop Grabs Bum) | 0:03:06 - Cop pushes old-timer | 9th chord | arguing | bridge | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | city | comical | establish setting | mickey-mousing | old man | police | pushing | rushing | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 0:12:16 - Eddie plays the piano | 13th chord | brother | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | composer | conversing | describing | dissonant bass | establish character | explaining | leading man | musician | name of film | pentatonic | piano | playing | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
City for Conquest (1940) | Galop | 0:31:21 - Montage at an amusement park | amusement park | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | double exposure | excited | linear chromaticism | montage | neon light |
City for Conquest (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:48 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Dead Man) | 1:15:09 - They pull out the dead man | car | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | ostinato | tense | whole-tone chord | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Kicks body | 1:15:22 - Googi kicks the body into the water | chromatic scale | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | kicking | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Very Broad) | 1:34:24 - Peggy reacts to the music | 9th chord | 13th chord | audience | bold | Carnegie Hall | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | dramatic | Gershwinesque | leading lady | leading man | listening | musician | newspaper | newspaper stand | on-screen music | orchestra | playing | radio | romantic | source music | street | watching | zoom out |
| Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:08:20 - The kids confront the junk shop owner | attacking | chromatic scale | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | fighting | gang | mickey-mousing | ominous | ostinato | running | shop | shopkeeper | stairs | stinger | teenager | tense | underscoring | up |
Crime School (1938) | Running away | 0:09:32 - Kids run away from cops | 42 chord | chasing | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | fleeing | gang | mickey-mousing | police | running | street | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:09:53 - Frankie sneaks in the house | concern | conversing | dissonant bass | establish character | heroine | leading lady | mysterious | pedal tone | room | sister | sneaking | sneaky | teenager | underscoring | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
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 (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) | 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 (Dramatic) | 0:30:08 - Guards take Frankie inside | begging | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Slips on paint | 0:51:01 - Guard chases boy then slips and falls on paint | accident | chromatic scale | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | slipping | teenager | walking |
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) | 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) | Parting curtains | 1:13:27 - Frankie parts the curtains | conflict | curtain | minor scale | mysterious | opening | parting | room | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:26 - Mark talks to policeman | chromatic scale | conflict | deceptive resolution | gun | hero | heroine | hiding | knocking | leading lady | leading man | lying | mode mixture | pedal tone | police | room | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:31 - Frankie fights Spike | agitated | arguing | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | fighting | gang | hero | leading man | sequence | street | teenager | underscoring |
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 |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Awakening | 0:14:48 - Johnnie wakes up | advance plot | chromatic scale | confusion | deceptive resolution | leading man | metric modulation | mysterious | octatonic chord | octatonic scale | pc set | room | waking | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Reading | 0:15:29 - Johnnie reads a newspaper | advance plot | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | leading man | newspaper | reading | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:16:01 - Johnnie rushes inside | advance plot | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | minor-major 7th chord | newspaper | room | rushing | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Traveling) | 0:22:51 - Johnnie's plodding feet | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | countryside | desert | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading man | linear chromaticism | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | traveling | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Ladder | 0:30:11 - Tommy sitting on a ladder | cheerful | chromatic scale | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | fun | ladder | pedal tone | ranch | teenager | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Ladder falls | 0:30:16 - The ladder falls | chromatic scale | comical | conflict | diminished 7th chord | falling | ladder | mickey-mousing | ranch | teenager |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:02:14 - Johnnie overhears the detective | advance plot | chromatic scale | detective | dissonant bass | hiding | leading man | ominous | room | tense | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy (Waiting) | 1:24:39 - The detective talks to Johnnie | chromatic scale | climax | dark | detective | diminished 7th chord | dissonant | dissonant bass | leading lady | leading man | lying | ominous | room | waiting |
| 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) | 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) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:25:03 - Charlie interrupts the lovers | barn | chromatic scale | conflict | dark | diminished 7th chord | hexatonic scale | leading lady | leading man | underscoring | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:25:23 - Charlie grabs Mabel's arm | barn | chromatic scale | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | underscoring | villain | 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) | Fleeing | 0:34:56 - Joe and Mabel flee | alley | chromatic scale | danger | down | escape | fearful | fleeing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | street | suspenseful |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:42 - Mabel yells to Joe | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | police | room | runaway | running | street | underscoring | yelling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe runs and falls | 0:46:50 - Joe runs and falls | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | stinger | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Speeding car | 0:51:08 - The car speeds off | car | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | friend | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | shopkeeper | street | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Cantor | 0:56:34 - Joe talks to a Jewish shopkeeper | 9th chord | crime scene | criminal | Gypsy minor scale | Jewish | kind | leading man | shop | shopkeeper |
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) | Dust Be My Destiny (Heroic) | 0:59:42 - Joe takes pictures of the robbery | 42 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic scale | criminal | crowd | dramatic | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | photographer | retrograde | shopkeeper | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:59:53 - Police arrive at the scene | 64 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic scale | crowd | dramatic | leading man | police | street | 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 (Heroic) | 1:10:32 - Joe heroically wrestles away the steering wheel | action scene | chromatic scale | dramatic | fighting | fragmentation | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | retrograde | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Car crash | 1:10:55 - Gangsters crash the car | action scene | car | chromatic scale | crashing | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | street |
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 |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Creeping | 0:04:47 - Two men sneak up behind Frank | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | creeping | gangster | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pizzicato | sneaking | street | walking |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:04:55 - Frank is pushed into a car | car | chromatic scale | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | fragmentation | gangster | gun | hero | kidnapping | leading man | pushing | reporter | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Car Crash | 0:05:40 - Two cars crash | car | car crash | chromatic scale | conflict | crashing | explosion | frantic | hero | leading man | metric dissonance | minor second | reporter | street | tone cluster |
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 |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Vision of Salome | 0:02:12 - Exotic dancers | announcing | carnival | carny | dancer | dancing | establish setting | exotic | Gypsy minor scale | leading lady | mysterious | on-screen music | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Vision of Salome | 0:03:12 - Two men argue | arguing | carnival | carny | dancer | establish setting | exotic | Gypsy minor scale | leading lady | mysterious | on-screen music | source music |
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) | 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) | 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) | Flamingo Road (Tense) + Titus | 1:04:16 - Titus enters the room | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | leading lady | leading man | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | tense | whole-tone scale |
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) | Throwing whiskey and glass | 1:12:08 - Titus throws whiskey in Field's face | alcohol | breaking | bullying | conflict | dramatic | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | room | sheriff | slamming | splashing | throwing | tone cluster | whole-tone scale |
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 |
| The Informer (1935) | Katie (Hurt) | 0:06:58 - Katie is upset with Gypo and walks away upset | agitated | chromatic scale | crying | establish character | leading lady | leading man | leaving | street | tritone | upset |
The Informer (1935) | Running and hiding | 0:07:54 - Frankie runs and hides in the shadows | chromatic scale | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | hero | hiding | mickey-mousing | running | soldier | street | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Running (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | chromatic scale | establish character | hero | mickey-mousing | running | street |
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) | Falling down the stairs | 1:06:19 - Gypo falls down the stairs | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | courtroom scene | down | dramatic | falling | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | stairs | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Judges (Maestoso) | 1:08:01 - Gypo looks at the judges | 64 chord | chromatic scale | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | judge | judging | pedal tone | room | serious | somber | watching |
The Informer (1935) | Blind Man (Tribunal) | 1:08:08 - Gypo looks at the blind man | 64 chord | accusing | antagonist | blind man | chromatic scale | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | leading man | pedal tone | room | serious | suspect | watching |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape | 1:19:46 - Gypo escapes and a chase ensues | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic scale | dramatic | escaping | headquarters | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | prison | rebel | room | running | traitor | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | Begging 2 | 1:26:41 - Katie begs for Gypo's life | advance plot | anxiety | begging | chromatic scale | despair | leading lady | love interest | rebel | room | sequence | tense |
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 B | 0:00:25 - Cast list | cast list | changing meter | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | harmonic sequence | main title | opening title sequence | romantic |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:06:21 - Robert goes in the house | arriving | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | home | husband | tense | transition | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Deception | 0:34:35 - Leslie lies about the letter | chromatic scale | deception | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | pc set | pivotal scene | prison | tense |
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 |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Transition | 0:00:10 - Starring list and wave effect | 9th chord | bold | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | mickey-mousing | opening title sequence | tense | title of film | water | wave |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally tries to open door | 0:08:53 - Wally tries to open the door | action scene | augmented triad | chromatic scale | door | frantic | friend | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | stinger |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally goes upstairs | 0:09:28 - Wally ascends the spiral staircase | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | chromatic scale | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | room | spiral staircase | stairs | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone chord | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally runs | 0:11:01 - Wally runs out of the house | action scene | beach | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | dramatic | friend | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | running | shooting | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sehr Dramatic) | 0:12:06 - Mildred arrives home | advance plot | arriving | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | dark | daughter | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | imitation | leading lady | street | tense | tritone | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 0:39:10 - Mildred argues with Veda | angry | arguing | child | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | harsh | heroine | leading lady | linear chromaticism | octatonic chord | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Appassionato) | 0:39:22 - Mildred argues with Veda | angry | arguing | child | chromatic scale | conflict | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | raising | room | standing | tense | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred raises Veda | 0:39:22 - Mildred lifts her daughter up by the arm | angry | arguing | child | conflict | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | raising | room | standing | tense | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | NIF - not in film | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | cut from film | dissonant | dramatic | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | hopeful | mode mixture | sequence | tender | tense | tragic | turbulent | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Misterioso) | 0:54:01 - Bert tells Mildred that Kay is sick | bad news | conversing | dark | death scene | distress | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | mysterious | ominous | stinger | street | turning point | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Pneumonia | 0:54:25 - A doctor works on Kay | child | chromatic scale | dark | death scene | doctor | dying | ex-husband | heroine | illness | leading lady | mickey-mousing | nurse | oscillation | patient | pc set | room | sick person | somber | tense | treating | turning point | waiting | watching |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:14:06 - Mildred and Monte argue | arguing | breakup | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | disagreement | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:18:59 - Veda talks to her mother | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | conversing | daughter | fear | friend | heroine | leading lady | linear chromaticism | octatonic chord | room | surprise | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled 2) | 1:21:34 - Veda looks at the divorce settlement check | antagonist | blackmail | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | daughter | fragmentation | heroine | laughing | leading lady | mickey-mousing | mocking | room | troubled | ugly | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Appassionato) | 1:23:00 - Veda expresses her disgust with her mother | angry | antagonist | arguing | chromatic scale | conflict | daughter | foreign key modulation | heroine | insulting | leading lady | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Runs upstairs | 1:24:04 - Veda runs up the stairs | angry | antagonist | ascending | conflict | daughter | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | room | stern |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 1:24:04 - Veda watches her daughter leave | altered dominant | angry | ascending | conflict | heroine | leading lady | leaving | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | room | stern |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Hopes Crushed | 1:43:38 - Mildred realizes Monte has left her | chromatic scale | dark | dissonant bass | heroine | leading lady | lost hope | mickey-mousing | realizing | room | tritone | turning point |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Revenge) | 1:43:57 - Mildred drives to the beach house | car | chromatic scale | common-tone diminished 7th | dark | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | flashback ends | gun | heroine | leading lady | pc set | street | transition |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:45:37 - Mildred finds Veda and Monte together | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | dark | daughter | discovering | kissing | linear chromaticism | reveal | room | stinger | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Agitato) | 1:46:05 - Veda reveals that she is in love with Monte | antagonist | augmented sixth chord | betrayal | betraying | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | climax | dark | daughter | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | revealing | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 1:46:43 - Mildred runs away | altered dominant | antagonist | arguing | betrayal | chromatic scale | climax | daughter | dramatic | emotional | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | leading lady | room | running | sequence |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:48:22 - Veda pleads for help to escape | antagonist | begging | chromatic scale | confessing | daughter | distressed | fragmentation | frantic | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room | sequence | whole-tone chord |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Joan) | 0:50:31 - Joan enters Vergie's shop | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | distortion | entering | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gentle | harmonic sequence | leading lady | meeting | mother | octatonic scale | reunion | secret | shop | timid |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Agitated) | 1:01:27 - John and Laura argue about Joan | agitated | arguing | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | leading man | octatonic scale | room | tense | transcribed by ear | wife |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Risoluto) | 0:00:27 - Cast list | cast list | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | dark | enharmonic respelling | folk-like | harbor | opening title sequence | sequence | tense |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Stride Piano Improvisation 1 | 0:08:50 - People at a party | blues scale | crowd | dancing | establish character | leading lady | leading man | manager | on-screen music | party | source music | stride piano | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Attack) | 0:08:40 - The man attacks Chris | advance plot | antagonist | attacking | chromatic scale | criminal | danger | fighting | house | leading lady | ostinato | pc set | sequence | shadow | sinister | victim | whole-tone |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Attack 2) | 1:13:06 - Bob attacks the art shop owner | 9th chord | angry | antagonist | attacking | chromatic scale | fighting | husband | pc set | pivotal scene | room | widow | zoom in |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising Anger) | 1:15:35 - Bob walks | angry | chromatic scale | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | husband | intense | meandering | oscillation | ostinato | room | transition | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner (Headlines) | 1:24:17 - Chris is suspected of murder | altered dominant | chromatic scale | climax | fragmentation | friend | hurrying | montage | newspaper | newspaper boy | panicked | police station | polychord | polytonality | quartal chord | radio | reporter | room | rushing | street | surprise | tritone oscillation | widow |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Transition | 0:00:18 - Book pages showing main cast | augmented sixth chord | cast list | chromatic scale | linear chromaticism | main title | opening title sequence | tense |
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) | 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 (Not Afraid) | 0:11:24 - David sets Leni's wrist | chromatic scale | classical music | delicate | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | Haydn | hero | heroine | quotation | room | somber |
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) | 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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:03:56 - The crowd outside | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | confused | crowd | hero | linear chromaticism | metric dissonance | pedal tone | polychord | riot | rioting | street | tense | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Furioso | 1:04:49 - Man throws rock through shop window | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | riot | rioting | street | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | God Save the King (Violent) | 1:05:00 - British mobs in the street | British | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | familiar tune | patriotic | riot | rioting | street |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:05:17 - David scolds Susan | 64 chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | foreign key modulation | hero | street | tense | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:40:57 - David helps Leni | 9th chord | advance plot | conversing | delicate | helping | hero | heroine | octatonic scale | prison | underscoring |
| The Public Defender (1931) | Public Defender | 0:00:14 - Title and balancing scales (in motion) | balancing | deceptive resolution | main title | opening title sequence | romantic | scale | sequence | starring list | transcribed by ear |
The Public Defender (1931) | Crowd thronging | 0:01:17 - A crowd pressing towards a guarded door | arguing | chromatic scale | crowd | hurried | noise | street | tense | transcribed by ear | transition |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Close to Me | 0:13:53 - William and Peggy talk in a dressing room | advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | Broadway | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | dancer | Gypsy major scale | leading man | popular music | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Steam whistle | 0:15:08 - A steam whistle blows | boat | chromatic scale | mickey-mousing | polychord | steam whistle | tense | transcribed by ear | transition |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Whirlpool | 0:00:20 - Penguin in a whirlpool | chromatic scale | double exposure | hectic | opening title sequence | penguin | pool | transcribed by ear | whirling | whirlpool |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) | 0:11:45 - Ursula forges the swami's signature | advance plot | antagonist | dark | exotic | exoticism | forging | Gypsy major scale | horoscope | leading lady | mysterious | ostinato | room | signing | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Dramatic Agitato | 0:12:41 - Hazel screams | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | letter | murder | murderer | murder scene | newspaper | room | screaming | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) + The Train | 0:23:07 - Helen points the gun at herself and cries | antagonist | combination of themes | crying | exotic | exoticism | gun | Gypsy major scale | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pedal tone | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) | 0:32:54 - Burns enters the house | advance plot | entering | exotic | exoticism | Gypsy major scale | leading lady | love interest | ostinato | room | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic 2) | 0:33:52 - Ursula talks to Burns | advance plot | conversing | dark | exotic | exoticism | Gypsy major scale | leading lady | love interest | mysterious | ostinato | room | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) | 0:34:06 - Ursula argues with Burns | advance plot | arguing | dark | exotic | exoticism | Gypsy major scale | leading lady | love interest | mysterious | ostinato | room | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (The End) | 0:59:03 - Ursula jumps to her death | chromatic scale | climax | dark | dramatic | dying | jumping | leading lady | murderer | The End | train | transcribed by ear |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Newspaper Montage | 0:32:22 - Newspaper headlines | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | ominous | tragic | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Scale | 0:28:06 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | detective | leading lady | leading man | major scale | music notes | neutral | on-screen music | school | singing | sleuth | source music |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan | 0:00:34 - Cast list | added-note chord | altered dominant | cast list | chromatic scale | mode mixture | mysterious | opening title sequence | sentimental | transcribed by ear |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Suicide Transition 2 | 0:28:29 - Bob (Bat) bandanges his hand | bandaging | chromatic scale | gangster | imposter | leading man | mysterious | returning | robbery | room | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
| We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape (Hiding) | 0:27:05 - Pete and Danny dodge from gunfire | action scene | chromatic scale | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | shooting | stinger | street | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Russian Waltz (Poco Agitato) | 1:02:12 - Getting out the car | car | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | dark | detective | leading lady | leading man | reporter | sneaking | tense | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | Saroff | 1:03:07 - They argue | arguing | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | reporter | tense | victim | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape | 1:04:31 - Pete enters the house | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | murderer | room | shooting | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 8 | 1:05:55 - Pete advances slowly | arguing | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hostage | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | polychord | room | sneaking | taunting | tense | tricking | underscoring |
| Another Face (1935) | Russian Waltz (Meno) + The Iron Door | 0:02:11 - Gangsters talk with doctor | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conversing | doctor | establish character | gangster | mysterious | nurse | office | pedal tone | tense |
Another Face (1935) | Zaroff (Molto Moderato) + The Iron Door | 0:02:43 - The gangsters depart | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conversing | departing | doctor | establish character | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | nurse | office | tense |
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