Who owns the jaws theme

As the shark explodes and the carcass sinks, the dreamy harps return, this time in a final affirmation that we can feel calm, a notion further pushed by the beautifully serene end title rendition of the Orca theme.

John Williams returned for "Jaws 2," writing a thrilling theme for young sailors out on their catamarans, and while his theme stayed for the next two pictures, he did not.

British TV composer Alan Parker , whose biggest claim to fame was as a session guitarist for the likes of Donovan and Bowie, scored "Jaws 3-D" and did a good job, although very nearly ended up with a love song for the starring dolphins. Small's previous work included " Klute " and " Marathon Man ," so while his fish tale was an obvious step down he wrote an admirable score with an eerie electronic motif for the shark.

All of the scores have been made available on CD, giving them a life away from the source material like so many others. But it's "Jaws" that always remains ahead of the pack.

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See more Williams News. See more Williams Music. Discover Music. See more Williams Pictures. At some point, we have to accept that symphonic music is a language, and the same sentence can be created independently.

But he did steal it. People, I really don't see the problem. We have had several threads on this very subject several times. Are they all accusing JW of plagiarism? And you may tell me what you think about the origin of the music for Star Wars. It depends on how you define source. I have stated now several times what I meant, but you just don't read or you don't want to understand.

NO you don't want to understand. Maybe you have poor understanding of english, I don't know but a source other than John Williams is theft, thats undeniable. I don't care about your feelings, how do you think JW likes it when people like you and MSM say he stole something or as MSM trys to backtrack and say I mean his inspiration. The man has been my idol longer than either of you've been alive, I get sick of people like you questioning his integrity.

I've noticed that every time someone offers another possible inspiration for a cue, you quickly ask them for some sort of link to the material in question, almost as if you need to listen asap to the alleged similarity so as to allow you to either eliminate or add the music in question to some sort of list of "source" possibilities. No offense, but I believe that behaviour to be a little obsessive and possibly even unhealthy.

We all have our little obsessions, haven't we. But I removed the subsentence containing the word 'decades' which was not to take literally of course. It seems these days people are offended by nothing. I may not agree with the things you say, Joe, but you just wished I was dead.

Sorry if I don't take that lightly, especially since you used a personal event in my life to go about saying it. I would like to know why you believe that this ostinato is so unique that it would need inspiration to be repeated in multiple works? Even the most complex melody could be arrived at by two composers independently, but the likelihood of coincidence course decreases the more complex it is. If a composer loses credibility by constantly coming up with music that was unlikely to have been independently composed, that is also a factor, but nothing is provable even in very complex music.

When we are talking two notes, it is nothing but empty conjecture. The orchestration is standard for the pitches represented.

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Recommended Posts. MSM 74 Posted February 14, Posted February 14, Enter John Williams. The composer was years-old, yet to make a big name for himself in Hollywood, and was just coming off the devastating death of his wife of 18 years, Barbara Ruick. Contrary to Steven's suggestion to have a sweeping, more-romantic score, John played the two-note theme at the piano.

He thought it was a joke. John quickly explained it wasn't. The most powerful thing, John said, was the simplest idea.