Primeval Original Television Soundtrack

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The Primeval Original Television Soundtrack or OTS is the release containing the music composed and performed by Dominik Scherrer for Series 1, 2 and 3. On 25 August 2011, MovieScore Media announced that they would be releasing the soundtrack.^[1] The soundtrack was released on 20 September 2011, it is available in CD format and digital format from iTunes and Amazon.

The soundtrack only has about a third of music made by Scherrer, comprised of the main themes from Series 1 and 2. A lot of incidental music from those series and the themes from Series 3-5 are not included. See Unreleased Soundtrack for a near complete list of themes and see Non-Original Music for real songs/music created by other artists.

Tracklist[]

Track	Title	Run time	Plays in
1	Primeval Theme	3:21	Episode 1.2* Episode 2.1 Episode 3.2*
2	Rex	2:12	Episode 1.1
3	Cretaceous Sea	1:50	Episode 1.3 Episode 1.6* Episode 3.4*
4	Silurian Scorpions	2:06	Episode 2.4* Episode 2.5 Episode 2.7
5	Into the Late Permian	2:01	Episode 1.1
6	Columbian Mammoth	2:32	Episode 2.6 Episode 2.7*
7	The Mystery of the Anomalies	1:30	Episode 1.1
8	Chasing a Silurian Millipede	1:51	Episode 2.1 Episode 2.5
9	Coming Home	2:00	Episode 1.1
10	Connor and Abby at the Hospital	1:38	Episode 1.2 Episode 1.5* Episode 1.6* Episode 2.1*
11	Gorgonopsid vs Future Predator	3:17	Episode 1.5* Episode 1.6 Episode 2.1*
12	Stay With Me	2:34	Episode 1.3 Episode 2.2
13	Pteranodon	4:03	Episode 1.5 Episode 1.6*
14	Tom Dies	3:29	Episode 1.4 Episode 2.2 Episode 2.4* Episode 2.5* Episode 2.7
15	Infected	2:51	Episode 1.4 Episode 2.3* Episode 2.7*
16	Smilodon Attack	2:09	Episode 2.3
17	Raptors at the Shopping Mall	3:40	Episode 2.1
18	Firechief	1:32	Episode 2.2 Episode 2.6
19	Taylor	2:01	Episode 2.5
20	Carnivorous Worms	4:36	Episode 2.2
21	Val Revealed	3:27	Episode 1.1* Episode 2.3
22	Back to the Cretaceous	4:10	Episode 1.6* Episode 2.1 Episode 2.6*
23	Sabretooth Battle	3:21	Episode 2.3 Episode 2.7*
24	Jenny Lewis	2:19	Episode 2.4
25	Contaminated	3:23	Episode 2.2* Episode 2.5 Episode 2.6* Episode 2.7*
26	Dracorex	2:16	Episode 3.7
27	Helen Where Are You?	1:19	Episode 1.1* Episode 1.2 Episode 2.1*
28	The Merqueen	3:38	Episode 2.4 Episode 2.6*
29	Primeval Titles	0:39	Series 1 Series 2 Series 3

* indicates that only part of the track was played in an episode, otherwise the full version or majority of the track was played.

Trivia[]

The Pteranodon theme is reminisant of the theme from Jaws composed by John Williams.
The Dracorex score was co-composed by Dominik Scherrer and Angus Moncrieff. Is is also the only track from Series 3 whereas the rest are from Series 1 and 2..
Several tracks share instrumental segments:
- Primeval Theme ends with the Primeval Titles.
- Tom Dies ends with a segment of Helen Where Are You?.
- Carnivorous Worms has a segment of Columbian Mammoth in the middle.
- Sabretooth Battle has the start segment of Back to the Cretaceous near the end.