All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke (Ocean Waves) | 0:10:10 - Ocean waves | boat | establish place | flashback | gentle | leading lady | light | peaceful | storytelling | student | teacher | traveling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Lento) | 0:10:20 - Henriette on a ship | boat | flashback | hopeful | leading lady | mysterious | storytelling | tense | traveling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Carriage) | 0:13:05 - A carriage arrives | carriage | driver | leading lady | pleasant | street | transition | traveling | upbeat |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Carriage) | 0:46:53 - Horses pulling a carriage | carriage | child | conversing | governess | horse | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pleasant | riding | street | traveling scene | trotting | upbeat |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette | 1:45:41 - A carriage arrives | arriving | carriage | child | duke | grand | leading man | pleasant | street | transition | traveling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ostinato) | 2:10:09 - A carriage leaves | carriage | crowd | dramatic | leading lady | mob | ominous | ostinato | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:10:17 - A carriage arrives at the palace | arriving | carriage | leading lady | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling | underscoring |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Flo Sings) | 0:32:32 - Flo sings | advance plot | cheerful | leading man | love interest | singing | source music | train | train | traveling |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Door slam | 1:33:12 - Marlowe closes the car door | closing | hurried | informer | leading man | mickey-mousing | private eye | slamming | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying (Car) | 1:33:13 - Marlowe drives in a car | car | driving | hurried | leading man | private eye | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:20 - Marlowe backs the car up | car | driving | leading man | private eye | street | tense | traveling scene | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying (Car) | 1:33:25 - Marlowe continues driving | car | driving | hurried | leading man | private eye | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Dramatic) | 1:33:37 - Marlowe looks at sign | car | dramatic | investigating | leading man | private eye | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Hurrying (Car) | 1:33:50 - Marlowe drives off of the road | car | driving | hurried | leading man | private eye | street | tense | traveling scene |
The Big Sleep (1946) | He skids | 1:33:53 - Marlowe's car skids to a stop | car | leading man | mickey-mousing | private eye | skidding | street | tense | traveling scene |
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 |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 2 | 0:29:44 - Montage of Philip's escape | boat | dark | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | parallelism | prisoner | transcribed by ear | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Train | 0:01:09 - An elevated train approaches | bridge | busy | city | hurried | mickey-mousing | old man | police | train | transition | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem B (Main Title) | 0:01:19 - Sign for the Williamsburg Bridge | bridge | busy | city | hurried | old man | police | train | transition | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Train | 0:34:25 - A rushing train | hurried | montage | rushing | train | train | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem train whistle | 0:34:28 - Danny on the train | blaring | hurried | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | rushing | train | train | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 + Sidewalks of New York | 0:38:31 - Traveling montage | combination of themes | double exposure | gentle | montage | train | traveling |
Crime School (1938) | The Patrol Wagon | 0:21:41 - Boys get loaded into the patrol wagon | car | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | dissonant bass | pedal tone | police car | traveling |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Traveling | 0:22:25 - Johnnie becomes a fugitive | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | countryside | double exposure | dramatic | leading man | map | mickey-mousing | money | montage | montage | purchasing | street | traveling | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Train | 0:22:47 - A rushing train and a map | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | motoric | polychord | train | train | traveling | whistle |
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 Fugitive | 0:24:29 - Johnnie walks | 9th chord | advance plot | altered dominant | desert | foreign key modulation | leading man | Neapolitan | tired | traveling | walking | wandering |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make | 0:49:40 - Johnnie and Peggy drive in a car | ABAB structure | added-note chord | altered dominant | car | car | cheerful | conversing | driving | hero | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love scene | mode mixture | phrase extension | romantic | traveling |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Extended) | 0:53:21 - Johnnie and Peggy drive in a car | ABAB structure | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | car | car | cheerful | conversing | driving | hero | kissing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | phrase extension | romantic | traveling |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Dramatic) | 0:47:13 - Plane lands in Canada | flashback | landing | plane | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Arriving | 0:26:52 - Joe and Mabel settle into their new situation | 9th chord | arriving | calm | dramatic | freedom | leading lady | leading man | runaway | settling down | street | traveling | traveling scene | truck |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Travel Montage) | 0:36:28 - A speeding train | added-note chord | foreign key modulation | frantic | hitch-hiking | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | map | montage | pc set | runaway | sign | train | train | train whistle | traveling | traveling scene | truck | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Wandering) | 0:37:16 - Joe and Mabel walk down the road | car | car horn | diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | montage | oscillation | runaway | street | tired | traveling scene | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Whistling | 0:45:44 - Joe whistles as he walks | 64 chord | cheerful | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | leading man | on-screen music | scored source music | source music | street | traveling scene | whistling |
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) | Speeding train | 0:51:13 - A train approaches | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | mickey-mousing | train | train station | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Travel Montage) | 1:26:04 - Train approaches the screen | added-note chord | foreign key modulation | happy | leading lady | leading man | pc set | resolution | train | train | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Train) | 1:26:17 - Joe and Mabel on the train | 11th chord | added-note chord | happy | leading lady | leading man | resolution | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Hanging Hats) | 1:26:31 - Joe and Mabel toss their hats | 11th chord | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | happy | hat | hook | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | resolution | throwing | train | traveling | whistle effect |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (The End) | 1:26:45 - "The End" | closing credits | end title sequence | foreign key modulation | happy | leading lady | leading man | The End | train | traveling |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Train) | 0:24:18 - Chip and Lucy on a train | FBI | flashback | machine | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train | 0:42:28 - A rushing train | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train + Titus (Rising) | 0:42:43 - Field and Annabelle in a train car | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (Driving) | 0:53:02 - Lane drives Dan to the construction site | 13th chord | added-note chord | arriving | car | car | comical | common-chord modulation | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | politician | rushed | self-borrowing | transition | traveling |
Illegal (1955) | The Bus | 0:46:09 - Man runs to catch bus and is shot | bus | gun | gunshot | murder | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | The Keys | 0:01:07 - On-screen text establishing the Florida keys | bus | car | establish place | establish setting | on-screen text | peaceful | street | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | The Bus | 0:01:26 - The bus is pulled over | agitated | bus | car | establish setting | police | street | tense | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | Traveling | 0:02:21 - The bus drives on | bus | establish setting | exciting | starting | street | traveling |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling 1) | 0:10:13 - Shelly drives through desert | bright | car | desert | driving | heroine | map | mickey-mousing | montage | sunny | traveling | wheel |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling 2) | 0:23:40 - Shelly travels to Tumblewood Ranch | desert | driving | traveling | walking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Traveling 2) | 0:51:09 - Shelly drives away from the Tumble Moon ranch | driving | heroine | traveling |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:49:48 - Driving to the beach house | beach house | cheerful | driving | falling in love scene | friend | heroine | leading lady | room | traveling | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Rushing train | 1:24:15 - A rushing train | double exposure | excited | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | train | train | transition | traveling |
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 |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Beverly Hills (Leggiero) | 0:01:10 - Focus on one car as it pulls into a driveway | Beverly Hills | car | cheerful | establish location | panning shot | sequential modulation | street | traveling | voice-over |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 0:23:46 - Mrs. Tanner boards a trolley | advance plot | altered dominant | antagonist | newspaper | quartal chord | reading | street | syncopation | tense | traveling | trolley | widow |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Galloping) | 0:32:07 - David arrives in a carriage | carriage | classical music | familiar tune | galloping | happy | Haydn | hero | horse | quotation | street | transition | traveling |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sidewalks of New York (Harbor) | 0:20:07 - New York City skyline | calm | countermelody | New York | parallelism | popular music | setting | transcribed by ear | transition | traveling |
Thirteen Women (1932) | The Train | 0:01:33 - A rushing train | chromatic mediant | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | rushing | sorting | train | train | train whistle | transcribed by ear | transition | traveling | upbeat |
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 (Suicide) | 0:24:18 - Helen commits suicide | antagonist | chromaticism | committing suicide | dying | exotic | exoticism | gun | gunshot | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pc set | pedal tone | stinger | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Montage) | 0:54:11 - Feet walking | bus | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | hurried | montage | pedal tone | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Sidewalks of New York | 0:54:28 - Feet walking | bus | calm | chromatic parallelism | foreign key modulation | lighthearted | montage | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Accelerando) | 0:54:42 - Feet walking | added-note chord | bus | chromatic parallelism | hurried | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Con Moto) | 1:23:29 - Fosco arrives in his carriage | antagonist | arriving | carriage | criminal | dark | leading man | murderer | serious | street | transition | traveling |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train (Whistle) + Chicago | 0:44:23 - A speeding train | combination of themes | familiar tune | hurried | popular tune | train | train | train effect | transition | traveling |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (City) | 0:44:28 - Downtown Chicago | arriving | bright | calling | calm | city | familiar tune | hotel | leading lady | phone book | popular tune | telephone | transition | traveling |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Fragmented 2) | 1:07:35 - A boat in the fog | conflict | criminal | dark | fisherman | friend | leading man | menacing | ominous | sea | traveling |