Jurassic Park Soundtrack: Every Composer and Notable Song

Four composers have scored the seven main films: John Williams wrote the music for Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Don Davis scored Jurassic Park III (2001), Michael Giacchino scored the next three Jurassic World films, and Alexandre Desplat scored Jurassic World Rebirth (2025). Each score has its own album, so here is the run film by film.

John Williams scored jurassic park 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg. The album, "Jurassic Park: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", came out on MCA Records on May 25, 1993, with 16 tracks. The cues people search for are "Theme From Jurassic Park", "Welcome to Jurassic Park", "Opening Titles", "Incident at Isla Nublar", "Journey to the Island" and "The Raptor Attack", along with the gentler "My Friend, the Brachiosaurus". Williams also scored the lost world jurassic park, again for Spielberg. Its album, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", was released by MCA Soundtracks on May 20, 1997, with 14 tracks including "The Island Prologue", "Malcolm's Journey", "The Hunt" and "The Raptors Appear". A separate game album, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Original Soundtrack from the Playstation and Saturn Games", followed on Sonic Images on February 10, 1998, with 19 tracks such as "Into the Trees" and "Base Camp Rampage".

Don Davis scored jurassic park 3, directed by Joe Johnston. "Jurassic Park III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" was released by Decca Records on July 10, 2001, with 16 tracks, among them "Isla Sorna Sailing Situation", "The Raptor Room" and "Billy Oblivion".

Michael Giacchino scored three films, and Back Lot Music released all three albums. jurassic world 2015, directed by Colin Trevorrow, has a 24 track album from June 9, 2015, with "Bury the Hatchling", "Welcome to Jurassic World" and "Indominus Wrecks". jurassic world fallen kingdom, directed by J. A. Bayona, has a 26 track album from June 15, 2018, including "Maisie and the Island" and "Lava Land". jurassic world dominion, again directed by Trevorrow, has a 22 track album from June 7, 2022, featuring "Hay of the Locusts" and "The Wages of Biosyn".

Alexandre Desplat scored jurassic world rebirth, directed by Gareth Edwards. "Jurassic World Rebirth: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" arrived on Back Lot Music on July 2, 2025, and at 34 tracks it is the longest album in the saga. Its cues include "Opening Lab", "Natural History Museum" and "Mosasaur Attacks Yacht".

If you are deciding where to start listening, the Williams album on MCA Records is the one the rest of the series is measured against. The films themselves are laid out in the jurassic park movies in order guide.

The signature songs across the seven main films are "Big Hat, No Cattle" by Randy Newman in Jurassic Park III (2001), and "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King, "Movin' On Up" by Primal Scream and "Harmony Hall" by Vampire Weekend in Jurassic World Rebirth (2025). Every other film in the saga is carried by its orchestral score alone.

Jurassic Park (1993), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022) have no notable songs on record. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) has none either, although its video game tie in has its own album, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Original Soundtrack from the Playstation and Saturn Games", released by Sonic Images on February 10, 1998. Its cues, among them "Into the Trees" and "Base Camp Rampage", are game music rather than songs from the film.

"Big Hat, No Cattle" by Randy Newman plays in the restaurant scene where Dr. Grant and Billy first meet the Kirbys, who are posing as wealthy tourists. It is a quiet, dry moment in a film that otherwise spends most of its 92 minutes running through jungle, and the song gives that lie a slightly comic backdrop. No source says it was written for the film.

Rebirth is the only film in the saga to carry a group of licensed songs: "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King, "Movin' On Up" by Primal Scream and "Harmony Hall" by Vampire Weekend. No source names the scenes where they play, so where each one sits in the film stays open. No source says any of the three was written for the film. Alexandre Desplat's score for the film runs to 34 tracks on the Back Lot Music album released July 2, 2025, and the songs sit alongside it.

These are my own picks, and they mix the songs above with the score cues people search for most. Perhaps you would order them differently.

• "Theme From Jurassic Park" (John Williams, MCA Records, 1993): in my opinion the one piece of music in the saga that every later film has to answer to.
• "Welcome to Jurassic Park" (John Williams): the title carries the awe of the first living dinosaurs better than any shot of the park gates.
• "My Friend, the Brachiosaurus" (John Williams): the gentlest cue on the album, and it makes the later "The Raptor Attack" hit harder by contrast.
• "Big Hat, No Cattle" (Randy Newman): a dry, funny choice for the Kirby restaurant scene, and the only song the third film is remembered for.
• "Pavane for a Dead Apatosaurus" (Michael Giacchino): the title alone tells you Giacchino was enjoying himself, and the cue gives the park's saddest moment room to breathe.
• "Mosasaur Attacks Yacht" (Alexandre Desplat): a plain track title that promises exactly the set piece Rebirth delivers at sea.
• "Stand By Me" (Ben E. King): the most recognizable song in the whole saga, and a surprising one to hear in a Jurassic film.

If you want to see how these pieces sit against the films themselves, the jurassic park movies ranked list compares them, and collectors can browse jurassic park merchandise for related items.