The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Poison Victim | 1:07:50 - Rocks is poisoned | dissonant | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | mysterious | office | parallel fifths | poison | poisoning | quartal chord | tense | tone cluster | tritone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Poison | 1:08:46 - Rocks feels the effect of the poison | blur | chromatic parallelism | diminution | doctor | dreaming | drugs | ethereal | gangster | layering | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | office | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | poison | poisoning | polychord | stinger | tone cluster |
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) | 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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:20:39 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window | agitated | appoggiatura | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Launching tear gas | 1:20:51 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window | agitated | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | launching | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tear gas | tone cluster |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Somber) | 1:31:04 - Rocky leaves his cell for his execution | altered dominant | climax | conversing | gangster | gentle | leading man | pc set | priest | prison | reverse picardy | stinger | tone cluster |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:36 - Rocky pleads for his life | begging | climax | cowardice | crowd | crying | death | execution | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | pleading | police | priest | prison | shadow | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | wailing |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:45 - Jonathan follows Dr. Einstein | advance plot | altered dominant | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | digging | dissonant bass | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | on-screen music | patriotic tune | pc set | plotting | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | tone cluster | whistling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:54:30 - Jonathan goes up the stairs | advance plot | brother | crazy person | darkness | leading man | murderer | mysterious | room | sneaking | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Victim | 1:30:11 - Mortimer tied up in a chair | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | fear | leading man | murderer | ominous | parallel fifths | quartal chord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | tritone | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Knives | 1:31:05 - Mortimer looks at the knives | acceleration | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | close-up | conflict | crazy person | diminution | doctor | fear | layering | leading man | murderer | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | polychord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | victim |
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) | Alarm | 0:28:16 - Alarm sounds | alarm | blowing | escape | mickey-mousing | reformatory | sounding | tense | tone cluster | whistle |
Crime School (1938) | Escaping | 0:28:32 - Frankie runs and hides | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising | 0:54:53 - Close up of rising temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature stable | 0:55:07 - Close up of stable temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature oscillating | 0:55:28 - Close up of oscillating temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Boiler Overheating | 0:55:31 - Danger as the boiler gets really hot | action scene | arguing | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | linear chromaticism | mechanical | pc set | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | worker | working |
Crime School (1938) | Whistle | 0:56:27 - Close up of whistle | action scene | alarm | blowing | dramatic | mickey-mousing | reformatory | sounding | tone cluster | whistle |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Prison Moods) | 1:08:48 - Boys talk to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dissonant | dissonant bass | distortion | gang | minor second | mysterious | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Whispering) | 1:10:38 - Frankie hears voices | anxious | fragmentation | gun | hearing voices | insanity | mad scene | mental breakdown | ostinato | pc set | reformatory | sequence | sound mass | teenager | tone cluster | whispering | worrying |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Grazioso Mysterioso) | 1:13:38 - Frankie confronts Sue and Mark | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | conversing | deceptive resolution | dining | gun | happy | hero | heroine | leading lady | leading man | room | stick up | stinger | teenager | tone cluster | whole-tone chord |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:38 - Car drives towards Joe and Mabel | added-note chord | barn | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | headlights | passerby | stinger | tone cluster | underscoring |
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 |
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 |
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) | Somber Phone Call | 1:19:54 - Dan calls Lane from the station | calling | conflict | half-diminished 7th chord | husband | leading lady | leading man | politician | somber | tone cluster | train station | wife |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 0:32:03 - Gypo in rebel headquarters | advance plot | antagonist | burning | combination of themes | diminished 7th chord | fire | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | octatonic | rebel | rising | room | Scotch snap | tense | tone cluster |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Uneasy) | 0:49:41 - They discuss the trial | dinner | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | planning | tense | tone cluster | trial | whole-tone chord |
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 |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Piano Banging | 0:37:12 - Gerald bangs on the piano | antagonist | boy | chaotic | child | dissonant | establish character | heroine | home | mother | on-screen music | piano | playing | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | In Love | 1:30:55 - David realizes he is in love with Leni | 9th chord | courtroom | courtroom scene | hero | heroine | linear chromaticism | love scene | realization | realizing | romantic | suspension | testifying | tone cluster |
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) | Surprise Symphony (Ghostly) | 1:49:48 - Gerald talks to Susan | antagonist | boy | child | classical music | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | Haydn | home | ominous | on-screen music | quotation | remembered source music | room | source music | tone cluster | whistling |
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're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) | 1:03:25 - A man falls to the ground | climax | conflict | crawling | detective | diminished 7th chord | dying | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | murder | mysterious | octatonic | reporter | Scotch snap | shooting | tense | tone cluster | victim | yard |