All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Agitato) | 0:38:09 - The Duchess argues with the doctor | arguing | common-chord modulation | doctor | duchess | illness | leading lady | mode mixture | religious scene | room | syncopation | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | The Pursuit | 0:57:09 - Marlowe pursues killer in his car | assassin | car | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | driving | gun | hiding | leading man | murderer | ostinato | private eye | pursuing | street | syncopation | tense |
Caged (1950) | Swimmy (Party) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | pedal tone | syncopation |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Stride Piano) | 0:43:27 - Eddie plays the piano | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | boxer | brother | chord substitution | common-tone diminished 7th | composer | conversing | crowd | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | musician | on-screen music | parallelism | party | piano | playing | ragtime | source music | syncopation | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (End Cast) | 1:43:34 - End cast list | 13th chord | closing credits | end title sequence | jazz | not by Steiner | plagal cadence | syncopation | transcribed by ear | upbeat |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Tense [Steiner]) | 1:15:00 - Candy in the alley | arriving | climax | criminal | double-cross | driving | gambler | henchman | hiding | husband | leading man | murderer | revenge | signaling | sneaking | street | syncopation | tense | underscoring | warehouse | widow |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Gunfight) | 1:03:34 - Train tracks | augmented triad | communist | dissonant bass | diving | dramatic | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | minor-major 7th chord | polychord | running | shooting | shootout | shootout | spy | syncopation | teacher | tense | train tracks | tritone oscillation | undercover agent |
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 |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage 2) | 1:18:47 - Newspaper headline montage | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | climax | fanfare | foreign key modulation | heroic | hurrying | manager | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | room | syncopation |
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 |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun (Introduction) | 0:00:15 - Title and cast list on placards | 9th chord | cheerful | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | sequence | syncopation | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun | 0:00:43 - Title and cast list on placards | ABAC structure | cheerful | main title | opening title sequence | syncopation | transcribed by ear |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Tango) | 0:08:56 - Dancers in a Broadway show | advance plot | countermelody | dancer | dancing | energetic | mode mixture | Neapolitan | on-screen music | pit orchestra | score to source | source music | syncopation | tango | theater |
Girl of the Rio (1932) | Was it Wrong? | 0:15:41 - Johnny rolls a pair of dice | conversing | crowd | dancing | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | night club | on-screen music | performing | romantic | singer | source music | syncopation | terrace | upbeat |