The original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 for Jaws

Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...

was released by MCA

Music Corporation of America

MCA, Inc. was an American talent agency. Initially starting in the music business, they would next become a dominant force in the film business, and later expanded into the television business...

 in 1975, and as a CD in 1992, including roughly a half hour of music that John Williams

John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

 redid for the album. In 2000, two versions of the score were released: one in a re-recording of the entire Jaws score by Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is Scotland's national symphony orchestra. Based in Glasgow, the 89-member professional orchestra also regularly performs in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee, and abroad. Formed in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, the company has performed full-time since 1950,...

 conducted by Joel McNeely

Joel McNeely

-Biography:Joel McNeely was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were involved in music and theater, and as a child he played the piano, saxophone, bass, and flute...

, and another to coincide with the release of the 25th anniversary DVD by Decca/Universal

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

, featuring the entire 51 minutes of the original score.

Track Listing for the 1975 MCA Records album

1. Main Title (Theme From 'Jaws') – 2:18
2. Chrissie's Death – 1:39
3. Promenade (Tourists on the Menu) – 2:46
4. Out to Sea – 2:26
5. The Indianapolis Story – 2:23
6. Sea Attack Number One – 5:23
7. One Barrel Chase – 3:04
8. Preparing the Cage – 3:23
9. Night Search – 3:29
10. The Underwater Siege – 3:31
11. Hand to Hand Combat – 2:32
12. End Title (Theme From 'Jaws') – 2:18

Total Time: 35:12

Track Listing for the 2000 Varèse Sarabande re-recording

1. Main Title – 1:19

1. Into the Estuary – 2:49
2. Out to Sea – 0:56
3. Man Against Beast – 5:15
4. Quint's Tale – 2:30
5. Brody Panics – 1:16
6. Barrel Off Starboard – 1:38
7. The Great Chase – 3:02
8. Three Barrels Under – 2:05
9. From Bad to Worse – 0:53
10. Quint Thinks it Over – 1:08
11. The Shark Cage Fugue – 2:00
12. The Shark Approaches – 0:42
13. The Shark Hits the Cage – 1:45
14. Quint Meets his End – 1:08
15. Blown to Bits – 3:11
16. End Title – 1:56

Total Time: 51:08

Track Listing for the 2000 Decca Records album

1. Main Title and First Victim ** – 3:27
2. The Empty Raft * – 1:23
3. The Pier Incident * – 2:23
4. The Shark Cage Fugue – 1:59
5. Shark Attack *† – 1:17
6. Ben Gardner's Boat – 3:31
7. Montage – 1:31
8. Father and Son *† – 3:42
9. Into the Estuary * – 2:50
10. Out to Sea – 2:58
11. Man Against Beast – 5:33
12. Quint's Tale – 2:40
13. Brody Panics * – 1:10
14. Barrel Off Starboard * – 1:30
15. The Great Shark Chase **† – 3:28
16. Three Barrels Under *† – 2:05
17. Between Attacks *† – 2:06
18. The Shark Approaches ** – 2:40
19. Blown to Bits – 3:03
20. End Titles – 1:52

* = Previously unreleased
** = Includes unreleased music
† = Includes music not used in the film

Total Time: 51:17