Close Encounters of the Third Kind (John Williams score)

John Williams's original score for Steven Spielberg's 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is built around a five-note communication motif that also functions in the story as the extraterrestrials' signal, and combines it with extensive atonal, modernist orchestral writing. The score has been released on the original 1977 soundtrack album and later expanded editions.

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