| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Whole Tone) | 0:21:11 - A view of the city | dreaming | leading man | montage | pedal tone | room | somber | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Allegro) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | mysterious | octatonic | somber | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Lento) | 0:12:31 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | mysterious | plotting | room | sequence | tender | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Blows out match | 0:56:48 - Einstein blows out the match | advance plot | blowing | brother | crazy person | darkness | doctor | extinguishing | leading man | match | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | tense | whole-tone scale |
| 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) | Marlowe (Beaten) | 1:23:35 - Jones helps Marlowe up | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dazed | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | lifting | mickey-mousing | pain | private eye | rising | street | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Recovering | 1:24:06 - Jones helps Marlowe up | advance plot | augmented triad | conversing | impressionism | leading man | mysterious | pain | private eye | street | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Whole Tone) | 1:39:25 - Marlowe talks to Vivian | captive | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mysterious | private eye | room | tense | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| Caged (1950) | Prison Alarm | 0:32:00 - Ringing prison alarm | agitated | alarm | alarm effect | bell | double exposure | dramatic | guard | leading lady | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | ringing | waking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale | yelling |
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 |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
| 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 (Dramatic) | 0:28:01 - Frankie escapes from the warden's office | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | mickey-mousing | ostinato | reformatory | running | teenager | tense | throwing | tone cluster | warden | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Window closing | 0:30:05 - Boys close their window | chromatic parallelism | closing | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | somber | teenager | whole-tone scale | window |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fight) | 0:25:41 - Charlie and Joe fight | 42 chord | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | fighting | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | punching | villain | warden | whole-tone scale |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Tense) | 1:04:16 - Titus enters the room | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | leading lady | leading man | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | tense | whole-tone scale |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Throwing whiskey and glass | 1:12:08 - Titus throws whiskey in Field's face | alcohol | breaking | bullying | conflict | dramatic | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | room | sheriff | slamming | splashing | throwing | tone cluster | whole-tone scale |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Agitato Molto Misterioso | 1:10:18 - Communists interrogate Matt | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | communist | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | mysterious | ostinato | pc set | questioning | room | shallow focus | suspicion | tense | undercover agent | whole-tone scale |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Riot | 1:14:50 - Rioters fighting | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crowd | dramatic | fighting | montage | ostinato | pc set | riot | rioting | violence | whole-tone scale |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Fast Driving + Stanley | 1:08:53 - Stanley driving | car | car | child | combination of themes | crime scene | criminal | driving | drunk | leading lady | mysterious | oscillation | street | tense | uneasy | victim | walking | whole-tone scale |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:01 - Stanley has an accident | car | child | chromatic scale | crashing | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | driving | drunk | leading lady | pc set | street | victim | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
In This Our Life (1942) | Car crash | 1:09:01 - Stanley hits two pedestrians | accident | car | car crash | crashing | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | driving | drunk | dying | falling | hit and run | leading lady | mickey-mousing | street | victim | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
In This Our Life (1942) | Fast Driving | 1:09:12 - Stanley drives away | accident | car | car | car crash | crime scene | criminal | driving | drunk | fleeing | hit and run | leading lady | mysterious | oscillation | tense | whole-tone scale |
In This Our Life (1942) | Fast Driving | 1:29:17 - Stanley driving her car | criminal | driving | escaping | leading lady | oscillation | street | tense | transition | whole-tone scale |
| 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) | Mildred (Appassionato) | 0:39:22 - Mildred argues with Veda | angry | arguing | child | chromatic scale | conflict | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | raising | room | standing | tense | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred raises Veda | 0:39:22 - Mildred lifts her daughter up by the arm | angry | arguing | child | conflict | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | raising | room | standing | tense | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | NIF - not in film | altered dominant | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | cut from film | dissonant | dramatic | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | hopeful | mode mixture | sequence | tender | tense | tragic | turbulent | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Misterioso) | 0:54:01 - Bert tells Mildred that Kay is sick | bad news | conversing | dark | death scene | distress | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | mysterious | ominous | stinger | street | turning point | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:14:06 - Mildred and Monte argue | arguing | breakup | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | disagreement | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Newspaper Montage | 0:32:22 - Newspaper headlines | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | ominous | tragic | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
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