| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Ascending | 0:13:37 - Henriette meets the caretaker | altered dominant | caretaker | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mysterious | street | transition | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | child | chromatic wedge | conversing | cut from film | duchess | governess | leading lady | room | tense | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:30:19 - Henriette dresses Raynald | 9th chord | advance plot | arguing | caring | child | duke | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | room | sequence | tense | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:30:34 - Henriette puts Raynald in bed | advance plot | arguing | caring | child | chromatic sequence | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | room | tense | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:46:43 - The Duchess stares at Henriette | chromatic wedge | conversing | duchess | governess | leading lady | linear chromaticism | mysterious | pc set | room | transition | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:56:57 - The Duchess enters | advance plot | child | conversing | governess | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | maid | mysterious | room | tense | trouble | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:13:19 - Henriette watches the falling snow | advance plot | arriving | butler | dissonant bass | dramatic | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | outside | panning shot | pc set | point-of-view shot | room | sigh gesture | underscoring | watching |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 1:25:28 - Henriette smiles at the Duke | advance plot | child | chromatic sequence | conversing | duke | foreign key modulation | forest | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | Neapolitan | tender | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:37:35 - Henriette talks with the Duke | chromatic scale | conversing | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | somber | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 1:41:02 - Henriette talks with the children | 9th chord | child | conversing | farewell scene | gentle | governess | leading lady | parallelism | pedal tone | room | tender | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:06:17 - Henriette argues with Henry | advance plot | arguing | fragmentation | leading lady | minister | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | sequence | suspect | tense | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:10:17 - A carriage arrives at the palace | 9th chord | arriving | carriage | chromatic scale | leading lady | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling | underscoring |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:45:26 - Criminals on the rooftop | 42 chord | carrying | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crime | criminal | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | robbery | rooftop | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | thief | tossing | underscoring | walking | whole-tone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:45:45 - Criminals talk about the professor | 64 chord | altered dominant | conversing | crime | criminal | gangster | robbery | rooftop | tense | thief | underscoring |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Comical) | 0:46:08 - Doctor examines a criminal | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | doctor | examining | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | pedal tone | robbery | rooftop | sequence | thief | underscoring |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:04 - Doctor talks with the criminals | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | examining | gangster | leading man | ostinato | pc set | robbery | rooftop | tense | thief | underscoring | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Examination) | 0:47:16 - The doctor writes in his notebook | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | examining | gangster | leading man | robbery | rooftop | subtle | thief | underscoring |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:47:48 - Rocks opens the safe | breaking in | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | enharmonic modulation | gangster | leading man | lock | opening | robbery | safe | safe-cracking | stinger | store | tense | thief | underscoring | unlocking | vault | wedge |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:07:26 - Rocky talks with his lawyer | advance plot | conversing | dark | dissonant bass | gangster | lawyer | leading man | mysterious | prison | prisoner | underscoring |
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) | 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) | Underscoring (Romantic) | 1:01:43 - Rocky and Laury talk | altered dominant | conversing | dissonant bass | gangster | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love scene | romantic | room | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:05:58 - Jerry goes to meet Rocky | advance plot | arriving | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pedal tone | priest | room | underscoring | waiting |
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) | Machine Gun | 1:20:24 - Policeman shoots at Rocky with machine gun | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | death | dramatic | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | police | polychord | shooting | street | 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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:23:10 - Jerry and Rocky confront one another | 42 chord | agitated | arguing | building | conflict | dramatic | entering | gangster | leading man | priest | underscoring | wedge | yelling |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:20 - Rocky throws his gun | capturing | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | leading man | police | sequence | street | throwing | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:44 - Rocky punches a guard | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | fighting | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring |
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 |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto 2) | 0:53:55 - Newspaper headlines | advance plot | arresting | dark | detective | double exposure | fragmentation | friend | headline | leading man | love interest | murderer | newspaper | ominous | room | sequential modulation | spinning | thematic transformation | underscoring |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Comical) | 0:02:20 - Mortimer hides from the reporters | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | comical | disguise | establish character | hiding | leading lady | leading man | looking | marriage | office | reporter | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:14:51 - Mortimer flirts with Elaine | bride | cemetery | conversing | flirting | groom | leading lady | leading man | love | love scene | mysterious | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:42:08 - Jonathan talks to the aunts | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | parallelism | room | tense | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:54:01 - Aunt Abby goes up the stairs | advance plot | aunt | brother | crazy person | darkness | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | room | silhouette | staring | underscoring |
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) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:56:27 - Einstein looks around in the dark | advance plot | brother | crazy person | dark | darkness | descending | doctor | leading man | match | murderer | plotting | room | sneaking | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:58:10 - Someone knocks at the door | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | crazy person | darkness | doctor | knocking | leading man | murderer | pc set | room | sequence | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:32:35 - They toast to Mortimer | alcohol | brother | captive | clinking | conflict | crazy person | doctor | fear | glass effect | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | tense | toasting | underscoring | victim |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:05:09 - A fish in a stream | countryside | doctor | establish setting | fish | fishing | flashback | leading man | mysterious | underscoring | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:14:31 - Rosa grabs the key | advance plot | cabin | friend | key | leading lady | mysterious | underscoring | walking | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:23:29 - Lewis arrives home | advance plot | arriving | doctor | gentle | leading man | room | tender | underscoring |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:30:40 - Rosa reacts to her mail | advance plot | crumpling | leading lady | mail | mysterious | post office | reading | underscoring |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:33:36 - A car pulls up | advance plot | gentle | leading lady | porch | sleeping | underscoring | waking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:45:21 - Rosa sits down | advance plot | gentle | hotel | leading lady | underscoring | waiting |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:07 - Rosa gets up | advance plot | cafe | conversing | hurrying | leading lady | tense | underscoring | waitress |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:08:24 - Moose warns Rosa | anger | dramatic | friend | harsh | leading lady | observing | room | stinger | turning point | underscoring | warning | warning |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:08:36 - Rosa hits the table | anger | angry | contemplating | dramatic | harsh | hitting | leading lady | pounding | reacting | room | turning point | underscoring |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:16:20 - Rosa stares out the window | advance plot | departing | leading lady | maid | murderer | mysterious | plotting | room | street | underscoring | walking | watching |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | cut from film | underscoring |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:01:01 - Sign for the Sternwood mansion | arriving | butler | establish character | leading man | mansion | private eye | room | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:45 - Marlowe goes to meet Sternwood | 9th chord | altered dominant | butler | chromatic scale | establish character | leading man | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:18:57 - Geiger enters car | 9th chord | antagonist | car | departing | oscillation | rain | street | tense | transition | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Action | 0:21:04 - Marlowe runs to the house | action scene | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | chromatic wedge | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | hurrying | leading man | pc set | private eye | running | street | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:23:44 - Marlowe investigates the crime scene | chromatic scale | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | alternation | deleted scene | deleted scene | half-diminished 7th chord | investigating | investigation | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:24:57 - Dead body on the floor | corpse | death | dramatic | femme fatale | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | room | searching | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:48:15 - Marlowe talks to Joe Brody | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | gun | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | suspect | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:51:31 - Joe reacts to the doorbell ringing | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | criminal | doorbell | gun | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:52:02 - Marlowe pushes Agnes | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | falling | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tripping | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:54 - Killer shoots at Marlowe | assassin | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | murderer | pc set | private eye | running | shooting | street | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:16:43 - Marlowe and Vivian argue | accusing | car | chromatic parallelism | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | pedal tone | private eye | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | femme fatale | leading man | oscillation | private eye | room | tritone | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:21:19 - Marlowe speaks on the phone | advance plot | café | chromatic scale | conversing | leading man | mysterious | pc set | phone call | private eye | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:21:57 - Marlowe speaks with Vivian on the phone | advance plot | café | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love interest | mysterious | phone call | private eye | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:30:01 - Marlowe investigates the crime scene | dark | death | death scene | dying | leading man | murder | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | victim |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:30:24 - Marlowe makes a phone call | conversing | death scene | leading man | pc set | phone call | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | victim | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:31:48 - Marlowe talks to Agnes on the phone | conversing | death scene | informer | leading man | pc set | phone call | private eye | room | tense | underscoring |
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) | 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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:41:36 - Marlowe runs to his car | 9th chord | action scene | criminal | diminution | dramatic | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love interest | outside | private eye | running | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:41:55 - Thug looks for Marlowe | action scene | criminal | diminished 7th chord | outside | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:43:17 - Canino shoots | action scene | criminal | dramatic | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | shooting | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:43:35 - Marlowe gets the keys to the handcuffs | action scene | chromatic parallelism | criminal | death | escaping | gun | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | pc set | private eye | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Danger) | 1:48:32 - Men approach the house | climax | fear | hiding | leading man | mysterious | ominous | pc set | planning | private eye | room | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | waiting |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Mars Dies | 1:51:43 - Mars falls dead to the ground | criminal | death | dying | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | private eye | resolution | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
| Caged (1950) | Prison | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | augmented sixth chord | conversing | cut from film | dark | exiting | guard | leading lady | opening title sequence | police car | prison | prisoner | suspension | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | bed | crazy person | crying | cut from film | leading lady | mad scene | oscillation | prison | prisoner | sleeping | tense | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:30 - Marie in the prison cafeteria | alarm | alarm effect | bell | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | eating | fanning | guard | heat | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pc set | prison | prisoner | underscoring | whole-tone scale |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:32:47 - Marie working in the prison laundry | alarm | alarm effect | augmented sixth chord | bell | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | pain | prison | prisoner | quick cuts | underscoring | working |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:36:52 - June gets dressed for her parole board hearing | dressing | establish character | excited | friend | leading lady | prison | prisoner | sequential modulation | tense | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:37:58 - June and Marie argue | arguing | dark | dissonant bass | establish character | friend | leading lady | prison | prisoner | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | June (Adagio) | 0:39:34 - Inmates play cards | cards | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | close-up | conversing | establish character | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | melancholy | playing | prison | prisoner | somber | underscoring | uneasy |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dark) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | cut scene | dark | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | cut scene | dramatic | underscoring |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:55:19 - A taxi approaches | 11th chord | appoggiatura | arriving | farewell scene | gentle | leading lady | leading man | source and scoring overlap | street | taxi | underscoring |
| 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) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:09:53 - Frankie sneaks in the house | concern | conversing | dissonant bass | establish character | heroine | leading lady | mysterious | pedal tone | room | sister | sneaking | sneaky | teenager | underscoring | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:24:12 - Gang settles into their room | advance plot | conversing | dissonant bass | gang | mysterious | pedal tone | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:27:20 - Frankie is taken to the warden's office | develop character | reformatory | teenager | tense | threatening | underscoring | warden | whip |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:35:46 - Mark visits Frankie in the sick room | advance plot | caring | conversing | dark | hospital | leading man | reformatory | teenager | tender | underscoring | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:37:09 - Transition to cafeteria | advance plot | conversing | hospital | leading man | reformatory | somber | teenager | underscoring | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:49:10 - Mark comes into the room | comedy | conversing | gang | gentle | hero | leading man | paint | parallelism | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:49:47 - Mark talks about making this room their home | comedy | deceptive resolution | gang | gentle | hero | leading man | leaving | pedal tone | reformatory | teasing | teenager | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:50 - Mark goes to rescue Squirt | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | leading man | linear chromaticism | reformatory | rushing | saving | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:06:17 - Spike talks to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | anger | arguing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:55 - Frankie hits Spike | advance plot | anger | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:46 - Boys talk to Frankie | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | gang | gun | keys | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ominous | pc set | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:11:24 - Boys plot their escape | 9th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | escape | gang | plotting | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:26 - Mark talks to policeman | chromatic scale | conflict | deceptive resolution | gun | hero | heroine | hiding | knocking | leading lady | leading man | lying | mode mixture | pedal tone | police | room | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:31 - Frankie fights Spike | agitated | arguing | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | fighting | gang | hero | leading man | sequence | street | teenager | underscoring |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:16:01 - Johnnie rushes inside | advance plot | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | minor-major 7th chord | newspaper | room | rushing | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Somber) | 0:22:16 - Close-up on Johnnie | advance plot | leading man | money | realizing | room | somber | stinger | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Triste) | 0:23:12 - Johnnie at a diner | 9th chord | advance plot | diner | leading man | money | somber | thinking | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:23:21 - Men at the diner stand up | added-note chord | advance plot | diner | dissonant bass | fighting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | linear chromaticism | money | mysterious | sitting | sneaking | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:48 - Peggy rushes to help Johnnie | 64 chord | dramatic | establish character | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | ranch | running | rushing | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tender) | 0:26:58 - Peggy helps Johnnie | 9th chord | 64 chord | heroine | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mode mixture | nursing | room | tender | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:51 - The sheriff comes in | conflict | dark | diminished 7th chord | entering | fear | leading man | room | sheriff | surprise | tense | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:17 - Johnnie sees his picture in the paper | angry | arguing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | fighting | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | photograph | ranch | teenager | tense | turning point | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:02:14 - Johnnie overhears the detective | advance plot | chromatic scale | detective | dissonant bass | hiding | leading man | ominous | room | tense | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:05:52 - Johnny talks to Peggy | conflict | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | lying | room | tense | underscoring |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:03:02 - Detective enters the house | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:07:51 - Gerry walks to the door with a flashlight | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:09:38 - Zina talks to Clementi | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Somber) | 0:10:38 - Clementi leaves the shop | flashback | male lead | somber | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:12:54 - Gerry walks to the door with a flashlight | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:13:07 - Gerry sees police at the door / transition to police station | dramatic | flashback | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:36:58 - Clementi tries to get his check back | emergency | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:37:44 - Clementi waits in the coffee shop | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Underscoring) | 0:50:13 - Clementi offers to buy Mr. Wilson's company | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:26:32 - Stephanie goes into Clementi's office | flashback | somber | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | 1:37:39 - Clementi and Zina enter the hotel and are shown to their rooms | flashback | peaceful | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:39:11 - The police take Clementi to see Zina's dead body | death | flashback | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:40:02 - Detectives tell Clementi of Zina's death, note, and phone call | dark | detective | flashback | murder | note | poison | suicide | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:53:09 - Clementi rides in a cab, and the driver talks about him and the news about him not knowing that Clementi is the rider | cabbie | flashback | taxi | tense | underscoring |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:55:38 - Clementi knocks on his mother's door | flashback | underscoring |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:17:06 - Ellie talks with Libby | advance plot | conversing | dark | leading lady | mother | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Somber) | 0:17:55 - Libby talks with Ellie | advance plot | conversing | dark | leading lady | mother | room | somber | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:22:23 - Barry pumps water | boss | conflict | convict | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | mocking | pumping | street | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Subtle) | 0:22:45 - Barry looks at the guard | arguing | boss | conflict | convict | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | street | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:31:10 - Close-up on Libby | arguing | conflict | crying | dark | dramatic | father | leading lady | lightning | room | storm | tense | thunder | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:40:24 - Barry in the woods | advance plot | convict | forest | fugitive | leading man | searching | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:02:02 - Libby in her room | advance plot | arriving | dramatic | father | leading lady | police | room | searching | street | tense | underscoring | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:03:52 - Libby sneaks away | advance plot | leading lady | packing | room | rushing | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:48 - Barry reacts to gunshots | action scene | cabin | convict | dramatic | forest | fugitive | gunfight | hiding | leading man | loading | love interest | manhunt | police | shooting | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:40 - Jeff talks with Libby | advance plot | conversing | leading lady | leading man | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:10:50 - Libby looks out the window | convict | escape | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | room | searching | tense | underscoring | yard |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:17:04 - Barry picks up the gun | advance plot | barn | conversing | convict | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Molto Expressivo | NIF - not in film | cut from film | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:37:57 - Jeff gets up and looks around | car | climax | climbing | convict | dramatic | fleeing | fugitive | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | police | searching | street | transcribed by ear | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:38:41 - Barry is shot | climax | convict | dramatic | falling | forest | fugitive | injury | leading man | love interest | police | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:39:09 - Barry hides | climax | convict | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | police | searching | tense | underscoring |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:01:35 - A prison | dark | establish location | prison | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Humorous) | 0:13:13 - Joe talks to the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | conversing | cow | diminished triad | dissonant bass | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:14:40 - Charlie enters | barn | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | stinger | tense | underscoring | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Romantic) | 0:21:46 - Mabel talks with Joe | barn | leading lady | leading man | love scene | pedal tone | romantic | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:25:03 - Charlie interrupts the lovers | barn | chromatic scale | conflict | dark | diminished 7th chord | hexatonic scale | leading lady | leading man | underscoring | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:25:23 - Charlie grabs Mabel's arm | barn | chromatic scale | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | underscoring | villain | warden |
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) | 0:38:00 - Joe and Mabel argue | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | runaway | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:42 - Mabel yells to Joe | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | police | room | runaway | running | street | underscoring | yelling |
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) | 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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:48:34 - Joe talks to the jailer | jail | jail break | leading man | pedal tone | tense | underscoring | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:05 - Joe enters the jail | 64 chord | jail | jail break | leading man | tense | underscoring | warden |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:59:53 - Police arrive at the scene | 64 chord | action scene | bank | chromatic scale | crowd | dramatic | leading man | police | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:28 - Mike is confronted by gangsters | bribe | chromatic parallelism | conflict | gangster | linear chromaticism | newspaper editor | street | tense | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Appassionato) | 1:12:09 - Mabel and Joe hide from the reporters | conflict | countermelody | hero | hiding | hospital | leading lady | leading man | passionate | underscoring |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:04:28 - Frank leaves the newspaper office | close-up | conflict | diminished 7th chord | gangster | hero | leading man | mysterious | reading | reporter | street | underscoring | watching |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:04:55 - Frank is pushed into a car | car | chromatic scale | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | fragmentation | gangster | gun | hero | kidnapping | leading man | pushing | reporter | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:05:11 - Newspaper on the sidewalk | conflict | dissonant bass | gangster | newspaper | reading | street | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:05:24 - Frank is framed for drunk driving | 9th chord | attacking | car | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | minor second | murder | pushing | reporter | setup | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:06 - Crowd accuses Frank of murder | 9th chord | accusing | car crash | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | injury | leading man | linear chromaticism | police | reporter | sequence | shaking | street | underscoring | yelling |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:09:11 - Agents question Jack's friend | FBI | investigation | mysterious | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:10:41 - Agent's search Jack's home | FBI | investigation | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:32:49 - Chip recounts how he was sent down south to speak with the Ku Klux Klan | dark | flashback | KKK | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:35:56 - Klansmen threaten the newspaper man | flashback | KKK | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Indians) | 0:38:26 - Indian business men and the comical things they do with their new wealth, then man gets shot in a field | flashback | Indian | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:41:28 - Men prepare to blow up an Indian house | explosion | flashback | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Indians) | 0:48:13 - Indian was killed | flashback | Indian | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:50 - Chip walks to mail evidence to the FBI | flashback | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:02:21 - Montage of mobster mischief | dramatic | flashback | gangster | gun | gunshot | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:17:17 - FBI agents waiting for Dillinger to get out of the movie theatre | FBI | flashback | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Waiting | 1:19:08 - Lucy waits for a phone call | flashback | tense | ticking | underscoring | waiting |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:20:31 - Pretty Boy Floyd takes hostages to a car | dark | dramatic | flashback | gangster | mobster | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:30:10 - Chip tells Lucy that they're moving to Washington DC | flashback | subtle | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:26 - Shootout at Ma Barker's place | dramatic | flashback | gangster | gun | mobster | shootout | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:49 - Mobster Alvin Karpis announces that he is going to kill J. Edgar Hoover | dramatic | flashback | gangster | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:33:19 - Agents arrest Machine Gun Kelly | dramatic | flashback | gangster | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Underscoring) | 1:40:04 - Agents working | flashback | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:49:23 - Gun boat and submarine on the ocean at night | flashback | mysterious | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:57:40 - Men keep running | dramatic | escaping | flashback | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:00:10 - Men react to collapse of bridge | flashback | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:24:44 - Chip listens to a radio report | agent | FBI | flashback | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Surveillance 1 (Misterioso) | 2:24:54 - Second man approaches restaurant | communist | flashback | tense | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:25:31 - FBI agents communicate by radio | flashback | radio | tense | underscoring |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | altered dominant | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | police | room | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | NIF - not in film | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | police | room | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:34:30 - Lane responds to Field | breaking up | breakup | café | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | tense | underscoring | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:11:26 - Field drinks | alcohol | arriving | bullying | conflict | dramatic | drinking | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | room | sheriff | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:11:51 - Titus argues with Field | arguing | bullying | conflict | drinking | leading man | politician | room | sheriff | tense | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:12:17 - Titus grabs Field and pushes him | bullying | conflict | dramatic | leading man | politician | pushing | room | sheriff | throwing | underscoring | violent |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:12:32 - Titus throws Field out the door | augmented triad | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | dark | dramatic | leading man | politician | polychord | pushing | room | sheriff | throwing | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | cut from film | cut from film | transition | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:22:33 - Field stumbles through the house | chromatic parallelism | conversing | death scene | drunk | drunk | leading lady | leading man | love interest | room | somber | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:15 - Titus attacks Lane | attacking | breaking | chromatic parallelism | climax | club | dramatic | dropping | gun | leading lady | linear chromaticism | oscillation | sheriff | staggering | stinger | telephone | tense | throwing | underscoring |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:02:12 - Steve mentions a divorce and leaves | conductor score | conversing | dark | establish character | friend | investigator | leading man | street | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:15:33 - Amato talks to Lye | antagonist | conductor score | conversing | establish character | gangster | mysterious | office | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:19:33 - Amato slaps old man | antagonist | conductor score | conversing | dark | establish character | gangster | office | slapping | stinger | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:27:50 - Steve fights Hammy | action scene | conductor score | dramatic | fighting | gangster | hurried | leading lady | leading man | room | strangling | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:03 - The gangsters leave | action scene | conductor score | conversing | gangster | leading lady | leading man | leaving | room | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:51:36 - Amato yells at Steve | action scene | angry | arguing | conductor score | fighting | gangster | investigator | leading man | room | underscoring | violence | yelling |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:52:13 - Dan waits for Steve | advance plot | conductor score | friend | gangster | investigator | leading man | pacing | street | tense | underscoring | waiting |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:53:50 - Steve questions Hammy | action scene | conductor score | dark | death | dying | gangster | investigator | leading man | questioning | stinger | street | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:01:30 - Marcia talks to Steve | conductor score | conversing | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hell on Frisco Bay | 1:01:41 - Steve talks to Marcia | conductor score | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love scene | room | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:19:09 - Marcia and Steve talk | club | conductor score | conversing | dark | leading lady | leading man | love scene | ominous | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:24:05 - Amato calls detective | advance plot | calling | gangster | leading man | mysterious | room | statue | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:34:53 - Steve climbs in the boat | action scene | boat | dock | dramatic | driving | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:35:05 - The police arrive | action scene | arriving | conversing | dock | leading lady | police | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:35:44 - The police boat leaves the dock | action scene | boat | departing | dock | dramatic | police | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:35:56 - The police boat advances | action scene | agitated | boat | dock | dramatic | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | tense | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:36:23 - The boat approaches a wall | action scene | boat | dock | driving | inspector | leading man | tense | underscoring |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Waxman]) | 0:17:02 - Steve fights Felix | action scene | arguing | conversing | criminal | dark | death | dramatic | gambler | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | owner | punching | room | self-defense | shooting | singer | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Waxman]) | 0:18:32 - Candy enters | action scene | conversing | criminal | dark | gambler | henchman | leading man | owner | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:19:34 - A telegram | gambler | gentle | leading man | montage | montage | reading | room | telegram | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:33:47 - Don leaves | crew | departing | gentle | leading man | manager | reporter | street | theater | transition | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Tense [Waxman]) | 0:40:34 - Don punches Steve | action scene | boxing ring | criminal | fighting | gambler | henchman | leading man | punching | reporter | tense | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Waxman]) | 0:42:19 - Approaching headlights | action scene | criminal | dark | departing | dramatic | driving | henchman | leading man | leaving | reporter | street | stumbling | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (Somber) | 0:44:48 - Georgia leaves | 9th chord | arguing | conflict | departing | gambler | leading lady | leading man | love interest | room | somber | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | It Had to Be You (Dramatic) | 0:51:26 - Don shoves Candy | arguing | conflict | criminal | departing | dramatic | fighting | gambler | henchman | leading man | reporter | room | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 0:54:59 - Cop takes a witness | departing | dramatic | leading man | letter | mysterious | police | police station | reporter | signature | tense | turning point | typing | underscoring | waiter | witness |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Steve Shoots Sister | 1:03:37 - Steve shoots his sister | action scene | chromatic scale | club | crowd | dramatic | dying | gambler | husband | leading man | murderer | police | reacting | shooting | sister | underscoring | victim |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 1:04:46 - Montage of policemen | action scene | double exposure | dramatic | montage | police | searching | street | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:05:01 - A dark door | advance plot | arriving | conversing | husband | leading man | mysterious | reporter | room | underscoring | widow |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Tense [Steiner]) | 1:12:07 - Steve talks to Candy | advance plot | arguing | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | gambler | henchman | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | slapping | tense | underscoring | warehouse |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Steiner]) | 1:12:32 - Candy reacts | 9th chord | advance plot | arguing | conversing | criminal | dark | gambler | half-diminished 7th chord | henchman | leading man | murderer | ominous | ostinato | underscoring | warehouse |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Steiner]) | 1:14:17 - Cop looks at his watch | climax | conversing | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | henchman | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | police | reporter | room | singer | stinger | telephone | tense | underscoring | watch | wife |
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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:01:02 - Brooklyn Bridge | 9th chord | airport | bridge | mysterious | pc set | street | tense | transition | underscoring |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:57:39 - Communists watch apartment | communist | create suspense | sneaking | spy | street | tense | underscoring | walking | watching |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:57:54 - Matt and Eve go down the stairs | communist | create suspense | leading lady | leading man | pc set | sneaking | spy | staircase | stairs | teacher | tense | tritone | undercover agent | underscoring |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:10:41 - Communists interrogate Matt | chromatic scale | communist | dark | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | questioning | room | shallow focus | suspicion | tense | threatening | undercover agent | underscoring |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:11:00 - Communists interrogate Matt | anger | communist | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | questioning | shallow focus | suspicion | suspicion | tense | threatening | undercover agent | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
| Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:05:57 - Mr. Scott talks to Ellen about the case | restaurant | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:10:22 - Vic tries to stop the execution | dark | death | execution | execution | phone call | tense | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Drinking | 0:17:25 - Vic talks to reporter at the bar | bar | drinking | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:24:41 - Ellen and Ray in the restaurant | restaurant | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Ominous) | 0:41:59 - Vic talks to tough guy in lobby | dark | hero | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:50:45 - Vic talks with Ellen | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:02:18 - Ray empties his bottle of scotch down the drain | glass | mysterious | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:03:04 - Ray goes to the bedroom and calls Mr. Garland | mysterious | phone call | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Waiting) | 1:04:09 - Ray waits for a phone call | mysterious | smoking | underscoring | waiting |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:07:17 - Ray threatens Ellen | stinger | suspense | tense | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:11:26 - Ellen is charged with murder | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Ominous) | 1:12:28 - Vic talks with Andy | dark | hero | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:13:16 - Vic talks to Frank in the back of his car | mysterious | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:17:50 - Vic and Hinkel gather together some papers | dramatic | hero | tense | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Sneaky) | 1:22:05 - Agents follow Vic who follows Andy | dark | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Dramatic) | 1:23:31 - Vic gets out of the car and crosses the street | car | dramatic | underscoring |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley Introduction | 0:16:56 - Craig talks with Asa | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic scale | conversing | father | fiancé | leading lady | room | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Caring | 0:23:19 - Asa talks to Roy | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | father | leading lady | room | sentimental | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Somber) | 0:48:46 - Asa relates the bad news | 9th chord | bad news | conversing | deceptive resolution | father | leading lady | leading man | room | sigh gesture | somber | turning point | uncle | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:49:21 - Asa tells them Peter committed suicide | conversing | dark | father | leading lady | leading man | room | stinger | suicide | triadic transformation | turning point | uncle | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:50:58 - Roy talks with Betty | added-note chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | friend | gentle | leading lady | parallelism | room | tender | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:05:14 - Craig in his office | advance plot | arriving | augmented triad | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | pc set | pedal tone | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:04 - Craig refuses Parry's case | conflict | conversing | denying | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | ominous | refusing | tritone oscillation | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Fast Driving (Tense) | 1:20:10 - Craig's car pulls up to the jail | arriving | car | car | conflict | conversing | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | oscillation | pc set | street | tense | underscoring | uneasy |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:21:07 - Parry in his jail cell | 9th chord | conflict | conversing | criminal | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | somber | suspect | underscoring | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) + South American Way | 1:25:34 - Stanley reacts | accusing | climax | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mother | mysterious | ominous | remembered source music | remembering | room | source and scoring overlap | source music | suspect | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Big Sweep (Subtle) | 1:27:23 - Stanley reacts | 9th chord | climax | conversing | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | pc set | plotting | room | suspect | tense | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Big Sweep | 1:28:57 - Stanley escapes | 11th chord | altered dominant | climax | criminal | dramatic | driving | escaping | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | pc set | room | underscoring | watching |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:32:30 - Stanley dashes through the gate | conflict | criminal | dramatic | hiding | leading lady | police | running | rushing | street | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:33:29 - Two other policeman see Stanley | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | climax | criminal | dark | dramatic | driving | fleeing | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | pc set | police | street | tense | underscoring | watching |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:34:09 - Stanley's eyes in the rear-view mirror | 9th chord | acceleration | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | pc set | police | street | tense | tone cluster | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:35:22 - Policemen on the radio | altered dominant | calling | police | police station | reporting | resolution | room | solemn | somber | tense | underscoring |
| The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:23 - Gypo stares at the poster, thinking | 64 chord | establish character | leading man | muttering | mysterious | street | thinking | underscoring |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:04:22 - Close-up on Katie | establish character | leading lady | linear chromaticism | mysterious | staring | street | underscoring |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:05:04 - Gypo sees the man and walks towards him | establish character | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | street | tense | underscoring | walking | whole-tone |
The Informer (1935) | Fanfare | 0:31:44 - Irish rebel headquarters | advance plot | fanfare | mysterious | rebel | room | underscoring | waiting |
The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:39:05 - Rebels talk about Gypo | advance plot | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | headquarters | rebel | room | tense | underscoring |
| Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Somber) | 0:13:51 - Frank talks with Mr. Temple | advance plot | conversing | father | hotel | leading lady | leading man | prelude | somber | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:33:17 - Mr. Temple rises to attack Rocco | angry | arguing | attacking | boss | conflict | dramatic | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | laughing | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:33:43 - Nora rises to attack Rocco | angry | attacking | boss | conflict | dramatic | father | gangster | hitting | horror | hostage | hotel | kissing | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring | violence |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:40:21 - Nora spits in Rocco's face | angry | boss | conflict | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | spitting | staring | stinger | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:46:30 - Rocco tells McCloud to shoot him | boss | conflict | conversing | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:59:37 - McCloud and Gaye exchange glances | boss | develop character | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | staring | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:14:48 - Sheriff finds out that it is Sawyer | conflict | corpse | discovering | dramatic | hotel | murder | realizing | sheriff | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:32 - Sheriff runs to talk to the Indians | conflict | dock | dramatic | running | sheriff | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:37 - Sheriff approaches Indians | conflict | dock | Indian | searching | sheriff | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:16:54 - Close-ups on McCloud and Rocco | boss | gangster | hotel | investigation scene | leading man | staring | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:18:21 - Sheriff leaves | boss | gangster | hotel | investigation scene | police | questioning | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:18:47 - They all walk to another room | boss | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | moll | obeying | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Tense) | 1:19:02 - Rocco welcomes new gangsters | boss | conversing | friend | gangster | greeting | hotel | investigation scene | laughing | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:20:19 - Rocco speaks with Ziggy | advance plot | boss | gangster | giving | hotel | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:24:37 - Gaye watches Rocco | advance plot | boss | gangster | hotel | leaving | mysterious | packing | preparing | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:26:10 - Gangsters board the boat with McCloud | advance plot | boarding | boss | dock | dramatic | gangster | hostage | leading lady | leading man | moll | storm | tense | underscoring | wind |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:27:42 - Nora and Gaye enter the hotel | advance plot | conversing | hotel | leading lady | moll | somber | underscoring | walking |
| The Letter (1940) | Native 2 | 0:04:12 - Leslie talks to the workers | conversing | home | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | open fifth | pentatonic | servant | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:04:29 - Leslie leaves the room | Dorian mode | home | leaving | murder scene | mysterious | servant | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:04 - Robert leaves | action scene | conversing | death | dramatic | husband | murder | servant | underscoring | warehouse |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:06:21 - Robert goes in the house | arriving | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | home | husband | tense | transition | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:12:42 - Leslie gets up | advance plot | home | leading lady | recounting | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:15:45 - Robert asks to see the letter | arguing | augmented triad | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pc set | sequence | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:26:07 - Leslie talks to Robert | climax | conversing | home | husband | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | oscillation | pedal tone | staring | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:26:52 - Leslie talks to Robert | climax | conversing | home | husband | leading lady | staring | tense | underscoring |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Misterioso) | 0:40:30 - Shelly and Liza talk | actor | advance plot | conversing | glass | leading lady | mysterious | rancher | street | underscoring | uneasy | walking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Fear (Vertigo) | 0:42:57 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | danger | falling in love scene | fear | heights | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:44:51 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | suspenseful | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 2 (Romantic) | 0:45:51 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | departing | falling in love scene | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romantic | suspect | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:02:38 - Harvey drives | actor | arriving | car | conflict | danger | dark | driving | friend | leading lady | love interest | ranch | stopping | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:17:15 - Trev stares at Shelly | actor | dark | husband | leading lady | leading man | love scene | reacting | room | somber | suspect | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Anger (Extended) | 1:21:51 - String plans to leave | brother | conversing | murderer | plotting | rancher | room | tense | turning point | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:26:47 - Trev runs after Liza | actor | anger | chasing | climax | dramatic | friend | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | rancher | room | running | underscoring |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone chord | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:11:13 - Policemen investigate the scene | action scene | altered dominant | beach | conversing | dissonant bass | friend | mysterious | police | searching | sequence | tense | underscoring | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:13:03 - Mildred leaves with the detectives | advance plot | conversing | detective | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | murder | street | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:53 - Mildred and Monte argue | 9th chord | added-note chord | arguing | bitter | breakup | conflict | deceptive resolution | heroine | leading lady | love interest | room | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:18:34 - Veda tells her mother she is married | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | conflict | conversing | daughter | diminished 7th chord | friend | heroine | leading lady | oscillation | reverse stinger | room | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:48:54 - Veda asks her mother not to turn her in | antagonist | begging | daughter | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room | tense | underscoring |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:13:05 - A boy runs in | arguing | boyfriend | conversing | dock | establish character | leading lady | underscoring | uneasy |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:20:11 - Jonah reacts | arguing | boat | chef | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | dock | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | stinger | tense | threatening | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:42 - Goff slaps Jonah | arguing | chef | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | extortion | falling | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | slapping | stinger | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:26:51 - Jonah helps Olaf | chef | conflict | conversing | criminal | dock | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | gentle | helping | leading man | mickey-mousing | reacting | solemn | tender | threatening | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:20 - Jonah and Olaf react | chef | conflict | conversing | criminal | dock | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | tense | threatening | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:41:03 - Stella slaps Goff | criminal | dock | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love scene | reacting | slapping | stinger | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:00 - Jonah calls for the cop | arguing | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | underscoring | yelling |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:46:34 - Jonah accuses Goff | arguing | conflict | conversing | criminal | dock | extortion | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | police | tense | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:49:39 - Goff stops Jonah | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | leading man | mickey-mousing | panning shot | stinger | street | threatening | underscoring | violence | walking | weapon |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:50:24 - Goff shoves Jonah | conflict | criminal | dark | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | leading man | street | threatening | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:51:05 - Goff gives Jonah a gun | conflict | criminal | dramatic | extortion | father | fisherman | gun | leading man | mocking | stinger | street | threatening | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:45 - Goff struggles with Jonah and Olaf | attempted murder | climax | criminal | dramatic | fighting | fisherman | friend | leading man | punching | sea | underscoring |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:12:05 - Police ring the bell | action scene | arguing | conversing | dark | fisherman | friend | police | ringing | room | street | underscoring |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:43:21 - Lady talks to Larry | advance plot | conversing | law office | lawyer | office | pedal tone | tense | underscoring |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:51 - Art shop owner testifies | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | quartal chord | rushing | testifying | tritone oscillation | underscoring | witness |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:03:40 - Jessica takes Gerald outside | 11th chord | antagonist | boy | child | conflict | dramatic | street | tense | underscoring | walking |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:03:56 - The crowd outside | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | confused | crowd | hero | linear chromaticism | metric dissonance | pedal tone | polychord | riot | rioting | street | tense | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Furioso | 1:04:49 - Man throws rock through shop window | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | riot | rioting | street | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:05:17 - David scolds Susan | 64 chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | foreign key modulation | hero | street | tense | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:25 - David is taken away by the police | 9th chord | added-note chord | arresting | conflict | hero | heroine | pedal tone | police | tense | train station | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:36:37 - David walks down a prison corridor | advance plot | anticipation | guard | hero | heroine | mysterious | prison | underscoring | walking |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:37:44 - David and Leni talk | conversing | harmonic sequence | hero | heroine | love scene | prison | somber | triadic transformation | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Romantic) | 1:39:42 - David comforts Leni | 9th chord | 13th chord | comforting | conversing | hero | heroine | love scene | prison | romantic | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:40:57 - David helps Leni | 9th chord | advance plot | conversing | delicate | helping | hero | heroine | octatonic scale | prison | underscoring |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 1:41:29 - David walks down the prison corridor | advance plot | augmented triad | conversing | delicate | diminished 7th chord | helping | hero | pedal tone | prison | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
| White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:05:27 - Gangsters listen to the radio | announcer | car | establish character | gangster | listening | mysterious | radio | street | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:12:14 - Zuckie pleads with Cody | conversing | dark | death | funereal | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | pleading | room | underscoring | victim |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:12:57 - Cody orders Cotton to shoot Zuckie | commanding | dark | death | dramatic | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | stinger | underscoring | victim | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:14:51 - The agents talk | agent | clue | dark | investigating | investigation scene | morgue | mysterious | police | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:21:34 - Ma speeds ahead in her car | agent | car | chase scene | dramatic | driving | escaping | mother | pursuing | street | tense | turning | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Pursuit (Frantic) | 0:21:56 - Agents lose Ma | agent | car | chase scene | chasing | escaping | mother | pursuing | street | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:23:54 - Evans falls to the ground | action scene | agent | chasing | dramatic | helping | rushing | street | underscoring | wound |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:35:05 - Judge sentences Cody | courtroom | courtroom scene | dark | dramatic | gangster | judge | leading man | murderer | sentencing | underscoring | verdict |
White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Tense) | 0:40:12 - Hank looks around | advance plot | gangster | leading man | looking | murderer | mysterious | photograph | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Ominous) | 0:40:51 - The prisoners talk | advance plot | conversing | gangster | leading man | murderer | mysterious | ominous | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:42:03 - Ma talks to the gangsters | advance plot | conversing | gangster | leading lady | love interest | moll | mother | room | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Agitato | 0:42:32 - Verna leaves the room | advance plot | agitated | conversing | departing | gangster | leading lady | love interest | moll | mother | room | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:42:52 - Big Ed talks to Verna | advance plot | anger | angry | arguing | dramatic | gangster | leading lady | love interest | moll | porch | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:44:42 - Parker sneaks | gangster | leading man | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | prison | prisoner | sneaking | undercover agent | underscoring | working |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:49:56 - Cody threatens Parker | gangster | leading man | mad scene | murderer | prison | prisoner | tense | threatening | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:51:20 - Hank helps Cody | crawling | gangster | headache | helping | leading man | mad scene | massaging | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Straitjacket) | 1:04:07 - The warden talks with Cody | conversing | doctor | gangster | guard | leading man | murderer | mysterious | prison | prison break | prisoner | straitjacket | tense | underscoring | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:07:29 - Cody commands the men | car | dramatic | escaping | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | underscoring | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Tense) | 1:07:49 - The men get in the car | car | dramatic | escaping | fanfare | gangster | guard | gun | leading man | motor effect | murderer | prison | prison break | prisoner | underscoring | warden |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:13:20 - Big Ed walks up the stairs | action scene | dark | gangster | leading lady | love interest | moll | room | tense | underscoring | walking |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:13:57 - Verna sneaks out of her bedroom | action scene | leading lady | moll | room | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:13 - Verna looks for a way out | action scene | leading lady | moll | room | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:14:27 - Verna opens the window | action scene | dramatic | leading lady | mickey-mousing | moll | room | running | stinger | tense | underscoring | window |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:16:28 - Big Ed creates a decoy | decoy | gangster | gun | love interest | murder scene | preparing | room | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:16:51 - Cody and Verna climb through the window | gangster | gun | leading lady | leading man | moll | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | room | sneaking | sneaking effect | tense | underscoring | window |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:20 - Big Ed's body falls down the stairs | dark | death | dramatic | falling | fugitive | gangster | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | moll | murderer | murder scene | panning shot | room | stairs | staring | statue | stinger | undercover agent | underscoring | watching |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:26:39 - Hank sneaks out | action scene | mysterious | sneaking | undercover agent | underscoring | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:27:53 - Hank talks to Cody | advance plot | arguing | conversing | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | tense | undercover agent | underscoring | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:58 - Hank talks to the gas station attendant | advance plot | conversing | fugitive | gangster | gas station | leading man | murderer | tense | truck | undercover agent | underscoring | worker | working |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:34:25 - Attendant fixes the truck | advance plot | conversing | fugitive | gangster | gas station | leading man | murderer | tense | underscoring | waiting | worker | working |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:39:16 - Agent at the control board | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | double exposure | dramatic | mapping | montage | police station | pursuing | radio | speeding | street | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:39:35 - Agents map coordinates of the truck | agent | chase scene | map | mapping | police station | tense | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:40:42 - Truck pulls in to factory | arriving | chase scene | driving | factory | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | tense | truck | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:41:22 - Agents map coordinates of the truck | agent | chase scene | dramatic | fanfare | map | mapping | police station | radio | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:42:42 - Hank looks out the window | action scene | factory | fugitive | gangster | guard | leading man | murderer | tense | undercover agent | underscoring | working |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:46:13 - Cody shoots man in back | action scene | agent | death | dramatic | dying | factory | falling | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | shooting | tear gas | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:47:35 - Gangsters get off of ladder | action scene | agent | dramatic | factory | fugitive | gangster | hiding | leading man | murderer | police | rushing | tense | underscoring |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:05:38 - Walter talks to a man in the carriage | carriage | conversing | establish character | forest | leading man | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:06:56 - Walter meets Marian | arriving | butler | establish character | gentle | leading lady | leading man | mansion | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:36:22 - Laura greets Sir Percival | advance plot | conversing | fiancé | leading lady | mansion | mysterious | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:38:37 - Marian talks to Walter | advance plot | bad news | conversing | cousin | dark | garden | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | stinger | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Hypnosis | 0:42:04 - The woman in white talks to Walter | advance plot | conversing | garden | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:43:00 - The woman in white talks to Walter | advance plot | conversing | dark | garden | leading lady | leading man | ominous | stinger | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:45:40 - Laura enters the mansion | butler | conflict | conversing | cousin | fiancé | leading lady | mansion | mysterious | tense | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:56:12 - Sir Percival and a monkey | advance plot | antagonist | butler | cigarette | conversing | cousin | husband | leading lady | mansion | monkey | mysterious | servant | smoking | stinger | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:11 - Marian is locked in | antagonist | confining | conflict | conversing | cousin | criminal | dark | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | prisoner | room | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:13:57 - The countess looks around | advance plot | helping | illness | leading lady | mysterious | room | sleeping | sneaking | tense | underscoring | victim | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:28 - Marian sees Sir Percival spying on them | conversing | dramatic | friend | leading lady | leading man | love scene | lyrical | room | stinger | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:34:10 - A patient in the asylum | asylum | comedy | key | ominous | patient | shuffling | underscoring | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:36:15 - Laura screams when she sees Sir Percival | conflict | criminal | dramatic | hitting | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | patient | screaming | street | struggling | underscoring | victim | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:39:05 - The butler enters | advance plot | butler | conversing | criminal | friend | leading lady | leading man | love interest | murderer | room | tense | underscoring |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:07:14 - May falls to her death | circus | dark | death scene | dying | falling | performer | trapeze | underscoring |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | 0:23:23 - Pete exits the store | attempted murder | conflict | departing | detective | drive by shooting | food | gunshot | leading man | mode mixture | peaceful | pedal tone | shooting | street | underscoring | walking |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Fighting) | 1:03:42 - Pete prepares to advance | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | fragmentation | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | reporter | running | sequence | shooting | tense | underscoring | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape | 1:04:31 - Pete enters the house | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | murderer | room | shooting | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 4 | 1:04:54 - Pete crawls on the floor | climax | conflict | crawling | detective | gangster | leading man | murderer | room | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 5 | 1:05:03 - Pete prepares to shoot | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | gunshot | leading man | murderer | pc set | pedal tone | room | shooting | sneaking | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 6 | 1:05:34 - Pete dodges gunfire | climax | conflict | dark | detective | gangster | leading man | murderer | room | sneaking | taunting | tense | underscoring |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 7 | 1:05:48 - Pete runs up the stairs | 9th chord | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | parallelism | pc set | pedal tone | room | running | rushing | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 8 | 1:05:55 - Pete advances slowly | arguing | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hostage | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | polychord | room | sneaking | taunting | tense | tricking | underscoring |
We're Only Human (1935) | Lost Patrol 2 | 1:06:45 - Berger falls to the ground | climax | conflict | death | detective | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gunshot | hostage | leading man | murderer | room | tone cluster | underscoring |
| Another Face (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:30 - Gangster talks with nurse | chromatic parallelism | conversing | doctor | establish character | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | nurse | office | tense | underscoring |
Another Face (1935) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:03:08 - Gangster smoking in chair | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | establish character | gangster | office | smoking | tense | underscoring | waiting |
| Without Honor (1949) | Desperation | 0:08:20 - Jane talks to Dennis | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Agitated) | 0:09:10 - Jane threatens to kill herself | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | dark | death scene | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suicide | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:09:23 - Jane and Dennis struggle | addicent | adulterer | death | death scene | dramatic | fighting | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | skewer | struggling | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:10:30 - Jane looks at Dennis's body | addicent | adulterer | corpse | death | death scene | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | reacting | skewer | tense | thinking | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:12:11 - Jane wipes blood off of the floor | blood | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | ominous | tense | underscoring | washing |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:12:58 - Jane walks forward | advance plot | leading lady | room | telephone | tense | thinking | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Agitation | 0:13:26 - Jane puts down the phone | advance plot | agitated | leading lady | preparing | room | telephone | thinking | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Desperation (Wedding Ring) | 0:14:29 - Jane tries to take off her wedding ring | advance plot | changing | dramatic | leading lady | mirror | ring | room | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:14:37 - Jane stares at herself in the mirror | advance plot | audible thoughts | blaming | crying | leading lady | mirror | room | tense | thinking | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | cut from film | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Chromatic Clarinet | NIF - not in film | cut from film | cut from film | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:15:21 - | advance plot | calling | conversing | doorbell | fidgeting | leading lady | room | telephone | tense | underscoring | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Chromatic Clarinet | 0:16:42 - Jane talks to the girl scouts | advance plot | child | leading lady | reacting | room | scout | tense | underscoring | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:17:03 - Jane talks to the girl scouts | advance plot | child | conversing | fidgeting | leading lady | room | scout | tense | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Girl Scouts (Extended) | 0:17:22 - The girl scouts leave | advance plot | child | leading lady | light | reacting | room | scout | thinking | underscoring | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:21:29 - Bill heads towards the laundry room | antagonist | brother | conflict | corpse | door | dramatic | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | reacting | rushing | tense | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:22:07 - Bill tosses the towel | antagonist | brother | conflict | conversing | corpse | door | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | tense | tossing | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Tension | 0:22:52 - Jane gives Bill a drink | antagonist | brother | conflict | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | memory | taunting | tense | underscoring | uneasy |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:37:33 - Jane climbs out the window | action scene | escaping | hiding | leading lady | running | tense | underscoring | window | yard |
Without Honor (1949) | Good Humor Truck + Underscoring (Tense) | 0:37:46 - Jane runs to the road | | action scene | combination of themes | escaping | hiding | ice cream truck | leading lady | running | scored source music | source music | street | tense | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:38:12 - Jane gets sprayed by a hose | action scene | bus | conversing | leading lady | neighbor | street | tense | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:53:45 - Jane screams | antagonist | blood | brother | climax | confession | dramatic | handprint | husband | leading lady | leading man | room | screaming | tense | underscoring | wife |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:29:31 - Bob gets up | barking | castle | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | rising | turning point | underscoring |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:37:49 - Zaroff talks about the game | action scene | castle | conversing | count | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | underscoring | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:45:41 - Bob catches Eve | action scene | agitated | catching | conversing | convincing | jungle | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:59:18 - Bob fights Zaroff | action scene | castle | count | dramatic | fighting | leading man | servant | tense | underscoring | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:05 - Tartar falls dead to the ground | castle | corpse | death | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | gun | gunshot | knife | leading lady | leading man | servant | underscoring | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:44 - Dogs barking | barking | boat | castle | count | death | dog | dramatic | dying | leading lady | leading man | tense | underscoring | victim | villain |
| White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:49:19 - Gangsters run away | action scene | agent | chasing | dramatic | factory | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | police | raid | running | rushing | tense | underscoring |
| Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:56:40 - Kitty and Harper | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dark | guard | low-angle shot | pc set | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | shadow | threatening | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:32:21 - Marie unpacks her belongings | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | leaving | prison | prisoner | tense | underscoring | unpacking | whole-tone chord |
Caged (1950) | Molto Expressivo (Rubato) | 1:32:37 - Marie checks out | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | guard | leading lady | leaving | prison | prisoner | solemn | underscoring |
| Mara Maru (1952) | On Deck | 0:02:52 - Gregory steps onto the boat | boat | boat | child | conversing | diver | diving suit | establish character | heroic | hopeful | leading man | underscoring | worker | working |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:12:54 - Gregory talks to Stella | arguing | conversing | establish character | leading lady | leading man | room | tense | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:15:56 - Gregory picks up the phone | advance plot | arriving | conversing | discovering | dramatic | knocking | leading man | police | room | stinger | telephone | underscoring | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:41:23 - Ortega points a gun at Gregory | arguing | brother | distrust | establish character | gun | leading man | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:32 - A boat on fire | arriving | crowd | death scene | dock | dousing | dramatic | fire | fire effect | hurrying | leading man | police | running | tense | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Benedict (Sabotage) | 1:02:14 - Ranier sneaks away | action scene | antagonist | bodyguard | captain | close-up | diver | diving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ocean | private eye | radio | sabotaging | saboteur | ship | ship | sneaking | suspenseful | swimming | traitor | underscoring | underwater | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:10:06 - The compass | advance plot | captain | leading man | map | planning | rain | sailing | ship | ship | tense | thinking | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:10:53 - Gregory breaks the compass | advance plot | breaking | captain | compass | dramatic | glass | leading man | planning | rain | ship | ship | smashing | thinking | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:13:49 - A sunken boat | action scene | boat | captain | diver | diving | diving suit | dramatic | exploring | leading man | ocean | ship | stinger | swimming | underscoring | underwater | walking |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:16:15 - Gregory opens a door | action scene | boat | captain | diver | diving | diving suit | leading man | mysterious | ocean | opening | ship | tense | treasure | underscoring | underwater | working |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:10 - Gregory falls to the deck floor | action scene | antogonist | boat | captain | diver | diving suit | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | private eye | rain | ship | storm | treasure | underscoring | wind | worker | yelling |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:37 - The cross in a treasure chest | action scene | antogonist | breaking | captain | cross | dark | diver | dramatic | dropping | leading lady | leading man | love interest | private eye | rain | reveal | ship | storm | throwing | treasure | underscoring | wind | worker | yelling |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:20:01 - Benedict grabs the cross | action scene | antogonist | arguing | captain | cross | diver | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | private eye | punching | rain | ship | storm | tense | treasure | underscoring | wind | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:20:13 - Fortuno grabs Gregory | action scene | antogonist | captain | cross | diver | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | private eye | rain | ship | storm | tense | treasure | underscoring | wind | worker | yelling |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:27:44 - Gregory follows after Manuelo | arguing | following | hut | jungle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | searching | tense | thinking | turning point | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:29:14 - Manuelo collapses | action scene | car | church | collapsing | cross | dark | headlights | scrambling | shadow | street | suspect | tense | underscoring | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:56 - Ortega tries to escape | advance plot | catacomb | cave | cross | dramatic | following | leading man | mysterious | searching | suspsect | throwing | tunnel | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:32:18 - Gregory interrogates Ortega | advance plot | arguing | catacomb | cave | cross | grabbing | interrogating | leading man | suspsect | tense | tunnel | underscoring |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:38 - Ortega pleads with Gregory | advance plot | arguing | catacomb | cave | cross | leading man | pleading | suspsect | tense | tunnel | underscoring |
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