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{{Infobox album
| name       = Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
| type       = Soundtrack
| artist     = [[Clint Mansell]]
| cover      = Black Swan Soundtrack.jpg
| border     = yes
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|2010|11|30}}
| recorded   = 2010<ref name="SoundtrackRecording">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/clint-mansell-interview |title=Clint Mansell Interview |magazine=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]] |date=December 21, 2009 |accessdate=December 12, 2010}}</ref>
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Contemporary classical music|Contemporary classical]]
| length     = 52:38
| language   = [[Instrumental]]
| label      = [[Sony Classical Records|Sony Classical]]<br>[[Fox Music]]
| producer   =
| prev_title = [[Faster (2010 film)|Faster]]
| prev_year  = 2010
| next_title = [[United (TV film)|United]]
| next_year  = 2011
}}

'''''Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''''' is the [[soundtrack album]] to the 2010 film ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]''.

==Overview==
The album marked the fifth consecutive collaboration between Aronofsky and English composer [[Clint Mansell]]. Mansell scored the film based on [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s ballet ''[[Swan Lake]]'',<ref name="Tchaikovsky">{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Interview-Darren-Aronofsky-On-Music-Scares-And-Gender-In-Black-Swan-21985.html |title=Interview: Darren Aronofsky On Music, Scares And Gender In Black Swan |last=Rich |first=Katey |publisher=Cinema Blend |date=December 2, 2010 |accessdate=December 12, 2010 |archive-date=8 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208222243/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Interview-Darren-Aronofsky-On-Music-Scares-And-Gender-In-Black-Swan-21985.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> but with radical changes to the music.<ref name="Score">{{cite web |url=http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interviews/clint-mansell-8937 |title=Clint Mansell interview |publisher=[[Independent Film Channel]] |last=Wright |first=James |date=December 17, 2009 |accessdate=December 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130200313/http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interviews/clint-mansell-8937 |archivedate=November 30, 2010 }}</ref> Because of the use of Tchaikovsky's music, the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the [[83rd Academy Awards|2010 Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118029326 |title=Academy nixes four score contenders |magazine=Variety |date=December 21, 2010 |accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>

Violinist [[Tim Fain]] was featured in performance both on-screen and in the soundtrack of ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/01/violinist-tim-fain-talks-black-swan-and-philip-glass-collaboration.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Culture Monster | date=January 18, 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishmusicguide.com/2010/12/08/chemical-brothers-pen-new-tracks-for-black-swan |title=Chemical Brothers pen new songs for "Black Swan" |publisher=British Music Guide |accessdate=December 24, 2010 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113063942/http://www.britishmusicguide.com/2010/12/08/chemical-brothers-pen-new-tracks-for-black-swan |archivedate=November 13, 2014 }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| total_length    = 52:38
| title1          = Nina's Dream
| length1         = 2:48
| title2          = Mother Me
| length2         = 1:06
| title3          = The New Season
| length3         = 2:39
| title4          = A Room of Her Own
| length4         = 1:56
| title5          = A New Swan Queen
| length5         = 3:28
| title6          = Lose Yourself
| length6         = 2:08
| title7          = Cruel Mistress
| length7         = 3:29
| title8          = Power, Seduction, Cries
| length8         = 1:42
| title9          = The Double
| length9         = 2:20
| title10         = Opposites Attract
| length10        = 3:45
| title11         = Night of Terror
| length11        = 8:01
| title12         = Stumbled Beginnings...
| length12        = 3:51
| title13         = It's My Time
| length13        = 1:30
| title14         = A Swan Is Born
| length14        = 1:38
| title15         = Perfection
| length15        = 5:45
| title16         = A Swan Song (For Nina)
| length16        = 6:23
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.blackswan2010.com}}
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/soundtrack Soundtracks for 'Black Swan'] at [[Internet Movie Database]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717083857/http://tracksounds.com/reviews/black_swan_clint_mansell.htm Soundtrack review for 'Black Swan'] at Tracksounds

{{Clint Mansell}}


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[[Category:2010 soundtrack albums]]
[[Category:Horror film soundtracks]]
[[Category:Instrumental soundtracks]]
[[Category:Clint Mansell soundtracks]]
[[Category:Sony Classical Records soundtracks]]
[[Category:Fox Music soundtracks]]
[[Category:Swan Lake]]
[[Category:Scores that won the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score]]

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