| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The War of the Roses | 0:27:13 - Henriette plays the harpsichord | advance plot | child | children's song | dancing | governess | leading lady | on-screen music | pleasant | room | singing | source music |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The War of the Roses | 0:28:23 - The girls sing | advance plot | child | children's song | dancing | governess | leading lady | on-screen music | pleasant | room | singing | source music |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Last Rose of Summer | 0:03:14 - A woman sings | calm | doctor | folk song | Irish | leading man | listening | on-screen music | party | pianist | room | singer | singing | sneaking | source music | stealing | thief |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 0:01:20 - Fans yelling at a ball game | augmented sixth chord | baseball | baseball player | bass drum | cheering | crowd | enharmonic modulation | establish place | evaded cadence | falling | familiar tune | field | fighting | musician | parallel double period | pep band | playing | popular song | punching | rushed | saxophone | simulated source music | source music | sporting event | trombone | umpire | upbeat | yelling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Break the News to Mother | 0:18:44 - Teddy sings | advance plot | aunt | brother | cheerful | crazy person | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music | war song |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Flor de Lis | 0:08:17 - A ship sailing | art song | boat | boat | boating | conversing | establish setting | flirting | floozy | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | sailor | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | En Mi Canto de Amor | 0:08:57 - A dock at night | arriving | art song | boat | conversing | docking | establish setting | flirting | floozy | harbor | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | sailor | source music | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Mi Mariposa | 0:15:21 - Harry talks to the bartender | advance plot | arguing | art song | bar | bartender | calm | conversing | leading man | on-screen music | sailor | source music |
| Caged (1950) | Bird in a Cage | 0:30:00 - Inmates sleeping | advance plot | bed | crazy person | folk song | gentle | humming | leading lady | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | source music |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | So Help Me (If I Don't Love You) | 0:05:54 - Johnnie and Goldie relaxing | drinking | floozy | jaunty | kissing | leading man | murder scene | popular song | radio | room | source music |
| 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) | 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) | 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) | Dust Be My Destiny (Radio) | 0:52:28 - Mabel in an apartment | conflict | leading lady | leading man | popular song | radio | room | score to source | somber | source music |
| In This Our Life (1942) | London Bridge is Falling Down (Molto Expressivo) | 1:23:33 - Craig talks to Stanley | car | children's song | conflict | conversing | criminal | familiar tune | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | somber |
In This Our Life (1942) | London Bridge is Falling Down (Mysterious) | 1:23:45 - Craig and Stanley argue | 9th chord | car | children's song | conflict | conversing | criminal | familiar tune | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mysterious | ominous |
| The Informer (1935) | The Rose of Tralee | 0:02:54 - Man sings an Irish folk song by a lamp post | calm | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | Irish | leading man | on-screen music | poster | singing | source music | street | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green | 0:07:32 - Frankie looks at reward poster with his picture on it | 64 chord | dark | establish character | folk song | hero | Irish | marching | mickey-mousing | mysterious | source music | street | thinking |
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) | 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) | The Minstrel Boy | 0:25:32 - Man sings a folk tune at the street corner | 9th chord | AABA structure | advance plot | angelic | antagonist | calm | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | leading man | listening | mode mixture | mourner | mourning | on-screen music | playing | praying | singer | singing | street | violinist | watching |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Headquarters) | 0:31:29 - Irish rebel headquarters | 64 chord | advance plot | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | familiar tune | folk song | Irish | rebel | room | tense | waiting |
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 | 0:43:45 - People sing and dance in a pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | familiar tune | folk song | happy | Irish | leading man | source music | whistling |
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) | He Is Me Darling-O | 0:47:03 - Gypo and another man sing drunkenly | advance plot | Aeolian mode | antagonist | drunk | familiar tune | folk song | Irish | leading man | street | transcribed by ear | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Somber) | 0:57:08 - Dan and Mary talk about the rebel organization | 64 chord | conversing | diminished 7th chord | familiar tune | folk song | hero | heroic | love interest | love scene | room | tense |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Fragment) | 0:57:42 - Dan and Mary talk about a rebel meeting | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | hero | love interest | love scene | room | sentimental |
The Informer (1935) | Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms | 0:58:23 - Singing continues (from the previous scene) | advance plot | antagonist | crowd | crying | familiar tune | folk song | leading man | on-screen music | party | sentimental | singing |
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) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Rebel Jury) | 1:05:48 - Camera pans to show all of the faces of the rebel jury | 64 chord | bold | courtroom | courtroom scene | familiar tune | fanfare | folk song | headquarters | judging | jury | meter change | mode mixture | noble | panning shot | patriotic | plagal cadence | rebel | room |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underneath a Western Sky | 0:56:48 - A chuckwagon dinner | actor | advance plot | calm | campfire | chuckwagon | conversing | cowboy song | crowd | drinking | eating | father | flirting | food | friend | leading lady | love interest | mother | on-screen music | owner | playing | ranch | source music |
| 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) | Yankee Doodle | 0:03:37 - Children playing | 64 chord | cheerful | child | children's song | dancing | direct modulation | establish place | establish setting | flashback | park | playing | wipe |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Kuckuck, Kuckuck | 0:03:43 - An old car drives by | cheerful | child | children's song | common-chord modulation | dancing | establish setting | establish time | park | playing |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Everybody's Doing It Now | 0:03:48 - Horses and buggies in a small town street | altered dominant | buggy | common-tone diminished 7th | deceptive resolution | driving | establish setting | establish time | horse | playful | popular song | riding | street |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight | 0:12:17 - People rallying for John Shadwell | advance plot | conversing | crowd | on-screen music | popular song | rally | source music | upbeat |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | For He's a Jolly Good Fellow | 0:13:48 - Political rally for John Shadwell | advance plot | conversing | crowd | folk song | on-screen music | politician | rally | source music | spouse | upbeat |
| Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart | 0:00:00 - A rushing train under the opening credits | AABA structure | opening title sequence | popular song | syncopation | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Whistling) | 0:01:25 - A man whistles on a train | cheerful | establish character | on-screen music | popular song | salesman | source music | train | train | transcribed by ear | whistling |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Singing) | 0:01:44 - A man sings on a train | cheerful | establish character | on-screen music | popular song | salesman | singing | source music | train | train | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Someone | 0:16:31 - Music is played in a hotel ballroom | advance plot | cheerful | dancing | hotel | leading lady | popular song | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Bicycle Built for Two | 0:20:51 - Music is played in a bar room | AABC structure | advance plot | bar | calm | conversing | eating | leading lady | popular song | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Sidewalks of New York | 0:21:01 - Music is played in a bar room | advance plot | bar | calm | conversing | eating | leading lady | popular song | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Strings) | 0:23:03 - Music is played in a night club | AABA structure | dance scene | dancing | leading lady | night club | popular song | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Duet) | 0:28:54 - Two lovers sing in a hotel room | AABA structure | comedy | love | popular song | romantic | room | salesman | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Radio Waltz) | 0:32:02 - Music is played on the radio | comedy | listening | popular song | radio | romantic | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Radio Jazz) | 0:32:29 - Music is played on the radio | altered dominant | comedy | dancing | popular song | radio | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Radio Dance Band) | 0:32:46 - Music is played on the radio | AABA structure | chromatic mediant | comedy | dancing | leading lady | popular song | radio | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Dixieland) | 0:34:27 - Music is played in a night club | banjo | countermelody | dancing | Dixieland | double exposure | drums | improvisation | jazz | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Hello Beautiful | 0:35:04 - Music is played in a taxi | AABA structure | banjo | dancing | drums | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Millie | 0:35:09 - Hot jazz is played in a night club | AABA structure | banjo | dancing | Dixieland | drums | jazz | leading lady | montage | night club | popular song | salesman | source music | taxi | transcribed by ear | trombone | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Arabian) | 0:35:46 - Music is played on the radio | AABA structure | advance plot | Arabian | dancing | exoticism | popular song | radio | romantic | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Arabian) | 0:38:56 - Music is played on the radio | advance plot | Arabian | dancing | exoticism | leading lady | popular song | radio | romantic | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Slow Waltz) | 0:57:47 - Music is played on the radio | AABA structure | advance plot | arguing | calm | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | popular song | radio | room | salesman | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Ring Around the Rosy | 1:09:30 - Men sing and dance | children's song | dancing | exciting | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | resolution | room | salesman | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Sentimental) | 1:10:39 - People are sad as the radio plays | AABA structure | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | countermelody | crying | leading lady | leading man | popular song | radio | resolution | room | salesman | sentimental | somber | transcribed by ear |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Grandioso) | 0:00:26 - Book pages showing main cast | altered dominant | cast list | familiar tune | folk song | German | hopeful | main title | mode mixture | opening title sequence | parallel period | quotation | suspension |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Heart of Oak | 0:01:02 - View of London ("England, 1914") | 64 chord | added-note chord | bold | British | card | England | establish location | familiar tune | folk song | London | march | pedal tone | setting |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Tenderly) | 0:14:22 - Leni takes off her wig | 64 chord | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | German | hero | heroine | pedal tone | quotation | room | tender |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Ethereal) | 0:25:12 - David tells his son about his patient, Leni | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | boy | child | conversing | familiar tune | father | folk song | German | hero | home | mode mixture | pedal tone | quotation | sweet |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Viennese) | 0:32:51 - Gerald rushes in to see Leni | 11th chord | advance plot | boy | child | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | German | greeting | heroine | home | hugging | joyful | lifting | mickey-mousing | quotation |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (At the Piano) | 0:34:49 - Leni plays and sings | boy | cheerful | child | establish character | familiar tune | father | folk song | foreign key modulation | German | hero | heroine | home | on-screen music | piano | playing | score to source | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft | 0:36:41 - Leni plays the piano | boy | child | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | German | heroine | home | on-screen music | piano | playing | source music | warm |
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) | Frohe Botschaft (Somber) | 0:38:52 - Leni reacts | 9th chord | antagonist | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | evaded cadence | familiar tune | folk song | garden | German | heroine | mode mixture | quotation | sentimental | sigh gesture | somber |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Crying) | 0:45:45 - Leni kisses Gerald | 9th chord | 64 chord | advance plot | antagonist | boy | child | crying | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | heroine | home | leaving | mode mixture | mother | quotation | room | sequence | somber | tritone |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Triste) | 0:51:10 - David talks to Leni | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | conversing | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | German | hero | heroine | home | quotation | room | somber |
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) | 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) | Frohe Botschaft (Death Sentence) | 1:33:07 - The judge sentences David and Leni to death | 9th chord | common-chord modulation | conflict | courtroom | courtroom scene | crowd | dark | familiar tune | folk song | German | quotation | reverse picardy | sentencing | verdict |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Hopeful) | 1:38:41 - David comforts Leni | 9th chord | comforting | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | German | hero | heroine | love scene | mode mixture | pedal tone | plagal cadence | prison | quotation | somber |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Restful) | 1:41:47 - David watches Leni sleep | 9th chord | advance plot | delicate | familiar tune | folk song | German | hero | heroine | mode mixture | plagal cadence | prison | quotation | watching |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Ghostly) | 1:49:22 - Gerald talks to Susan | antagonist | boy | child | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | folk song | German | home | ominous | quotation | room | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (6th chime) | NIF - not in film | conclusion | cut from film | eerie | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | ominous | quotation | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Fading Away) | 1:50:19 - Susan looks surprised | antagonist | boy | child | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | home | ominous | quotation | room | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Singing) | 1:50:32 - Gerald sings in the tub | 9th chord | 11th chord | boy | child | conclusion | death | familiar tune | folk song | German | home | peaceful | quotation | room |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Singing) + Surprise Symphony | 1:50:50 - Gerald sings in the tub | augmented triad | boy | child | classical music | combination of themes | conclusion | death | familiar tune | folk song | German | Haydn | home | mode mixture | on-screen music | peaceful | quotation | room | source music | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (The End) | 1:51:01 - The End | 9th chord | end title sequence | familiar tune | folk song | German | grand | home | mode mixture | quotation | room | suspension | The End |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron B | 0:00:43 - Cast list | cast list | folk song | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
| Blind Adventure (1933) | When You're Far Away | 0:26:45 - Rose and Richard crash a party | AABA structure | advance plot | conversing | leading lady | leading man | lying | party | popular song | romantic | source music |
Blind Adventure (1933) | Marcellene | 0:32:12 - Rose and Richard go downstairs | ABAC structure | advance plot | calm | conversing | leading lady | leading man | lying | party | popular song | source music |
| Emergency Call (1933) | Fit as a Fiddle | 0:15:50 - A woman sings | advance plot | jaunty | nurse | on-screen music | popular song | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| Sing and Like It (1934) | Hearts and Flowers | 0:36:11 - Toots plays the piano | advance plot | conversing | gangster | leading lady | moll | musician | on-screen music | parallel period | piano | playing | popular song | room | sentimental | source music |
| 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) | Sidewalks of New York (Two-Step) | 0:00:17 - Buildings in New York City | cheerful | city | establish place | establish setting | linear chromaticism | popular song | transcribed by ear |
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