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, on March 5–9 and April 2 and 3, 2013. It was performed by the

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in conjuncture with Page LA Studio Voices. The soundtrack album was released in physical form on May 21, 2013, through Varèse Sarabande, as the follow-up to the critically successful 2009 soundtrack album ''

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Development

Over a month prior to the commencement of the film's principal photography, composer Michael Giacchino announced that he would return to score the sequel to 2009's ''

''. One of Giacchino's main tasks with the sequel, later entitled ''Star Trek Into Darkness'', was to evolve the themes from the previous installment and create new ones to reflect the film's darker tone. "There’s a moment when the '' Enterprise'' is taking off, and they are going off on their mission, and I thought 'This would be fun to bring back that similar moment from the first film,' but it wasn’t working. It was too much of an adventure feel, and it was all about saying 'Okay, well how do I do that same idea but in a darker way?' It’s all about finding the right chords and substitutions that you are using with those melodies – and how did that alter the melody? It’s constantly trying to bend and twist things so you feel that theme from the previous film, but it’s being used in a different way. You have a different emotional response to it. If I had just used it exactly as it was, it wouldn’t have been the right emotional response that you would want for the audience. So it was about twisting things in a way to make it fit right." A specific example of this was during the composition of the track "London Calling." " irector J. J. Abrams">J._J._Abrams.html" ;"title="irector J. J. Abrams">irector J. J. Abramsjust wanted it to feel like we weren't in a ''Star Trek'' movie," Giacchino said. "It was a very conscious decision to make that base sound different; then, from there, we were able to evolve to our theme for the character. I remember when J. J. heard it, he said, 'Oh, it sounds English. That's perfect!' I'm not exactly sure what that meant, but in his mind it fit perfectly. I was just going for something that felt emotional and questioning as opposed to being so direct that it tells you what's going on." The score is notable for featuring orchestration that contains piano, the first ''Star Trek'' score to do so since Cliff Eidelman’s score to ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' (1991), as well as a choir singing entirely in the Klingon language (which appears on the track entitled "The Qo'noS Wartet"). The score also contains interpolations of the " Theme from Star Trek", written by

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. Two licensed songs are also featured in the film, though not included on the soundtrack album:

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". Additional tracks were created by various artists across six countries as region-specific bonus tracks. The various songs played in their respected regions during a scene in which Scotty and Keenser are hanging out at a club. While the instrumental for the track is consistent throughout each of the artists' recordings, composed by J. J. Abrams and Charles Scott, each artist paired up with a music producer to write their own lyrics and melody for the song. The region-specific musicians include Kassia Conway with Anne Preven (United States/Canada), Bo Bruce with Gary Lightbody (United Kingdom), Penelope Austin with Robert Conley (Australia), Kyary Pamyu Pamyu with Yasutaka Nakata (Japan), I.V. (France), Roxana Puente (Mexico) and

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Track listing

The Deluxe Edition

On July 28, 2014, Varèse Sarabande released a 6000-copy limited edition expansion of Giacchino's score over two discs. Album cues from the original CD are bolded in the following track listing. Album cues that have been expanded from the original CD are bolded and italicised. Disc 1: Disc 2: * - Contains material that was present on the original soundtrack as "Kronos Wartet"
** - Contains material that was present on the original soundtrack as "Brigadoom"
† - Contains material that was present on the original soundtrack as "Star Trek Main Theme", and contains "Theme from ''Star Trek'' (TV Series)" by

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Personnel

Credits adopted from Allmusic: ;Production * Michael Giacchino – composer, producer *

– original material *

– original material * J. J. Abrams – executive producer * Bryan Burk – executive producer *

– orchestra *Reggie Wilson – orchestra contractor *Page LA Studio Voices – choir/chorus *Bobbi Page – vocal contractor ;Management *Stacey Robinson – stage manager *Christine Sirois – stage manager *

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– executive in charge of music *Tom Steel – stage manager *Robert Townson – executive in charge of music ;Technical *Denis St. Amand – scoring engineer *Vincent Cirilli – Pro Tools *Joel Iwataki – mixing, recording *Alex Levy – music editor *Patricia Sullivan – mastering ;Orchestration *Paul Apelgren – score coordinator *Marshall Bowen – orchestration *Andrea Datzman – orchestration, score coordinator *Brad Dechter – orchestration * George Drakoulias – music consultant *Larry Kenton – orchestration *Jeff Kryka – score preparation *Tim Lauber – scoring recordist *Norman Ludwin – orchestration *Dave Martina – assistant *Cameron Patrick – orchestration *Jason Richmond – coordination *Susie Benchasil Seiter – orchestration *Tim Simonec – conductor, orchestration *Booker White – music preparation

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