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The music of ‘Jaws’ continues to delight and frighten, 50 years later

Author
GBH
Published
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_181_017770d0-41f3-47dd-8e37-2678ed9b14e5&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wgbh.org%2F181%2Ffeed-rss.xml

It started as a minimalist, eerie musical phrase – one ominous note, then two, signifying the looming, underwater danger of a great white shark. Fifty years later, the theme to the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster “Jaws” is just as recognizable and iconic as the film itself. We take a deep-dive into this musical masterpiece with two expert music professors.

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