| 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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:39:58 - Rocky in the drug store | conflict | conversing | gangster | leading man | ominous | setup | shop | telephone | tritone | underscoring |
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) | Backing up | 0:40:37 - Rocky pulls a gun on the man following him | backing up | conflict | gangster | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | sequence | shop |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Closes door | 0:40:48 - Rocky shuts the phone booth door | closing | conflict | door | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | shop | tense |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:40:50 - Gangsters shoot their own man in phone booth | chromatic sequence | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | polychord | shooting | shop | sneaking | tense | voice-exchange |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sneaking away | 0:41:02 - Rocky sneaks away | conflict | diminished 7th chord | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | shop | sneaking | tense |
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) | Rocky and Laury | 0:41:37 - Laury pushes her way through the crowd | altered dominant | arriving | close-up | conflict | heartbroken | leading lady | love interest | rushing | sentimental | shop |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Waiting | 0:18:15 - Marlowe talks to lady in bookstore | added-note chord | altered dominant | book shop | chromatic scale | conversing | leading man | love interest | love scene | mode mixture | mysterious | oscillation | private eye | romantic |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Ear Music) | 0:38:26 - Marlowe talks with Agnes | arguing | book shop | chromatic scale | fragmentation | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | secretary | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:35:26 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | pc set | private eye | shop | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Suspenseful) | 1:35:47 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | dark | diminution | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | shop | suspenseful |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Ear Music) | 1:36:04 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | danger | fragmentation | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | mysterious | private eye | shop | tense | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Gets Hit) | 1:36:20 - The thug punches Marlowe | chromatic scale | conflict | criminal | danger | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | private eye | punching | shop | whole-tone chord |
| 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) | Attacking | 0:08:27 - Spike attacks the junk shop owner | attacking | conflict | death | dramatic | fighting | gang | mickey-mousing | polychord | shop | shopkeeper | teenager | tense |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Phone Call) | 0:38:09 - Clementi calls for Mr. O'Hara | coffee shop | flashback | phone call |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Modto Misterioso) | 0:38:29 - Clementi sits down to talk to Mr. O'Hara | coffee shop | flashback | worried |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose | 0:40:51 - Joe and Mabel in Nick's Diner | accompanied source music | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | diner | establish character | familiar tune | friend | happy | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel double period | popular song | radio | shopkeeper | singing | source music | ternary form |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Irish Rose) | 0:42:25 - They go to work in the kitchen | diner | establish character | friend | happy | leading lady | leading man | score to source | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Delicatessen) | 0:43:38 - Mabel and Nick talk | common-tone diminished 7th | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | secondary dominant | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (In Love) | 0:43:51 - Mabel and Nick talk | 9th chord | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Delicatessen) | 0:44:01 - Mabel and Nick talk | common-tone diminished 7th | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | secondary dominant | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Waltz) | 0:44:17 - Mabel and Nick talk | develop character | diner | familiar tune | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | pedal tone | popular song | shopkeeper | singing | source music |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Calm) | 0:44:32 - Mabel and Nick talk | added-note chord | altered dominant | develop character | diner | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:46:58 - Nick working | create suspense | dark | dissonant bass | friend | police | room | shopkeeper | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Hiding) | 0:47:35 - Nick talks with Joe | 42 chord | advance plot | anxious | diminished 7th chord | diner | fragmentation | friend | hiding | leading man | money | runaway | shopkeeper | suspense |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:58 - Joe walks to the jail | 64 chord | friend | jail | jail break | leading man | runaway | shopkeeper | tense | underscoring | walking |
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 (Grandioso) | 0:50:50 - Joe and Mabel outside | 42 chord | 64 chord | deceptive resolution | escaping | friend | heroic | jail break | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | shopkeeper | street | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Stinger | 0:51:01 - They see approaching headlights | 42 chord | danger | friend | jail break | leading lady | leading man | ominous | shopkeeper | siren | 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) | Dust Be My Destiny (Thankful) | 0:51:24 - Joe, Mabel, and Nick talk in the car | augmented sixth chord | escape | friend | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper | thankful | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Goodbye) | 0:51:35 - Joe and Mabel say goodbye to Nick | 9th chord | escape | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | popular song | shopkeeper | tender | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Grandioso) | 0:52:06 - Joe and Mabel leave on a train | 9th chord | 64 chord | calm | escape | familiar tune | friend | leading lady | leading man | popular song | shopkeeper | sweet | tender | train station | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Patrol | 0:55:50 - Cop checks on a shop | clock | crime scene | criminal | leading man | police | shopkeeper | street | tense |
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) | 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) | Alarm | 0:59:15 - Alarm sounds | action scene | alarm | bank | crowd | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | photographer | robbery | shopkeeper | street |
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 |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | (I'm Gonna Wait) A Little Bit Longer (For That Never-on-Time Baby of Mine) | 0:39:06 - Matt goes to a record shop | advance plot | agent | arguing | arriving | conversing | jazz | leading man | record player | record shop | shopkeeper | source music | undercover agent | upbeat | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Don'cha Go 'Way Mad | 0:42:08 - Matt talks to agents in a back room | advance plot | agent | conversing | jazz | planning | record player | record shop | sentimental | source music |
| 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) | Mrs. Hammond (Slowly) | 0:57:27 - Howard and Leslie walk into the back room | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | conflict | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | pentatonic | quintal chord | shop | walking |
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 Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Slowly) | 0:04:07 - Vergie working in a shop window | 64 chord | establish character | leading lady | peaceful | plagal cadence | shop | working |
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) | 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 |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Delicato) | 0:51:39 - Joan talks with Vergie | 9th chord | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | gentle | leading lady | mother | parallel 63s | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:51:52 - Vergie gives Joan a fan | 9th chord | advance plot | child | conversing | daughter | gentle | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Solo Violin) | 0:52:06 - Vergie gets a ribbon for Joan | advance plot | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | fragmentation | gentle | leading lady | mother | reunion | secret | shop |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Strings) | 0:52:30 - Vergie puts a ribbon in Joan's hair | advance plot | child | chromatic mediant | conversing | countermelody | daughter | direct modulation | gentle | leading lady | mode mixture | mother | pedal tone | reunion | secret | shop |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Trade Winds | 0:28:40 - Stella enters a drugstore | AABA structure | advance plot | child | conversing | criminal | leading lady | leading man | popular music | shopping | source music | store | upbeat | worker |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Plotting) | 0:42:32 - Larry storms out of the art collector's shop | advance plot | antagonist | dissonant bass | door | plotting | shop | sinister | slamming |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Drone) | 0:51:08 - Chris enters the art shop | advance plot | arriving | leading lady | ostinato | shop | shopkeeper | somber |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Stinger | 0:52:10 - Chris reacts | advance plot | leading lady | shop | shopkeeper | stinger | surprise | suspenseful | zoom in |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Rising) | 1:09:33 - The art shop is locked | lawyer | ostinato | parallelism | sequence | shop | tense | transition | worrying |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | La Marseillaise | 1:15:41 - News bulletins in a window | advance plot | announcing | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | French | patriotic | shop | sign | street | war | window |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (War Bulletin) | 1:22:12 - News bulletins about the trial | advance plot | announcing | familiar tune | fanfare | folk song | German | news | quotation | shop | sign | street | tense | window |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Tense) | 1:31:42 - News bulletins about the trial | 9th chord | advance plot | announcing | classical music | dark | familiar tune | Haydn | main theme | quotation | shop | sign | street | tense | window |
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