| Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
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| Released | November 30, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2010 [1] | |||
| Genre | Contemporary classical | |||
| Length | 52:38 | |||
| Language | Instrumental | |||
| Label | Sony Classical Fox Music | |||
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Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2010 film Black Swan .
The album marked the fifth consecutive collaboration between Aronofsky and English composer Clint Mansell. Mansell scored the film based on Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake , [2] but with radical changes to the music. [3] Because of the use of Tchaikovsky's music, the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the 2010 Academy Awards for Best Original Score. [4]
Violinist Tim Fain was featured in performance both on-screen and in the soundtrack of Black Swan , [5] and the film also featured various new pieces of music by English production duo The Chemical Brothers, although they are not featured on the official soundtrack. [6]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Nina's Dream" | 2:48 |
| 2. | "Mother Me" | 1:06 |
| 3. | "The New Season" | 2:39 |
| 4. | "A Room of Her Own" | 1:56 |
| 5. | "A New Swan Queen" | 3:28 |
| 6. | "Lose Yourself" | 2:08 |
| 7. | "Cruel Mistress" | 3:29 |
| 8. | "Power, Seduction, Cries" | 1:42 |
| 9. | "The Double" | 2:20 |
| 10. | "Opposites Attract" | 3:45 |
| 11. | "Night of Terror" | 8:01 |
| 12. | "Stumbled Beginnings..." | 3:51 |
| 13. | "It's My Time" | 1:30 |
| 14. | "A Swan Is Born" | 1:38 |
| 15. | "Perfection" | 5:45 |
| 16. | "A Swan Song (For Nina)" | 6:23 |
| Total length: | 52:38 | |
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