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Use sad music with piano, strings, and ambient textures to express loss or reflection. Perfect for documentaries, films, or social stories needing emotion.

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Strings in Tension

Suspenseful background track featuring various strings like cello, viola and double bass. The chords during the second half give the piece a melancholic quality.

Winter Embrace

Instrumental classical sentimental cinematic music composed for piano, strings, cello, harp and violin, ideal for nostalgia and melancholic scenes in films, tv series and documentaries. Also great for love, slow motion and peaceful situations in any projects.

Frozen Winter

Instrumental and sentimental classical cinematic music composed for piano, cello, violin and strings, ideal for nostalgia and emotional slow motion scenes in films, tv series and documentaries. Also great for sad topics in podcast and youtube.

An Emotional Realisation

Melancholic and dramatic sounding background track featuring synths and guitars. Works well under emotional scenes or media trying to convey an important message.

Travel Acoustic Folk

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Beautiful Memories (no perc)

Soft and dreamy track with acoustic guitar, electric piano, strings and light percussion. This piece has a wonderful melancholic feel. Perfect for projects needing peaceful, sentimental and nostalgic background music.

Lush Cinematic Strings

Soft and dreamy track with lush cinematic strings. This piece has a wonderful melancholic feel. Perfect for projects needing peaceful, sentimental and nostalgic background music.

Beautiful Memories

Soft and dreamy track with acoustic guitar, electric piano, strings and light percussion. This piece has a wonderful melancholic feel. Perfect for projects needing peaceful, sentimental and nostalgic background music.

Upbeat Acoustic Country Folk

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Country Travel Background

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Acoustic Folk Travel Background

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Lofi in Nostalgia

Melancholic sounding lofi track featuring newly originally created analog synthesizer sounds. Will work well in film and media looking for a nostalgic tone.

I Will Survive

Powerful orchestral trailer, great for historical or fantasy films, trailers, teasers, intro, games and many other projects.

Saga Of Legends

Powerful orchestral trailer, great for historical or fantasy films, trailers, teasers, intro, games and many other projects.

Hope Will Prevail

Powerful orchestral trailer, great for historical or fantasy films, trailers, teasers, intro, games and many other projects.

Beyond The Horizon (no lead)

A spacey, atmospheric track with futuristic, dreamy sound, using synth pads, strings and delicate melody. Great for science fiction / mystery / light tension / intrigue / suspense / epic projects.

Beyond The Horizon

A spacey, atmospheric track with futuristic, dreamy sound, using synth pads, strings and delicate melody. Great for science fiction / mystery / light tension / intrigue / suspense / epic projects.

This Acoustic Moments

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Relaxing Acoustic

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Happy Acoustic Travel

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Happy Acoustic Memories

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Country Travel Acoustic

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Travel Acoustic Motivation

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Stages Of Life

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Family Circle

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

After The Rain

Happy and relaxing acoustic audio track perfect to set an optimistic mood in your project! This track featuring acoustic guitars, emotional piano, percussion and strings. Suitable for any projects, including corporate presentations, lifestyle and travel, tutorials, family videos, web, app, game, rad...

Symbiosis

Experience the captivating essence of a theatrical film score featuring solely the enchanting harmony of piano and violin. Immerse yourself in a profoundly emotive musical motif, as delicate piano keys delicately evoke sensations tingling across your skin, while the lulling violins enchant and enthr...

Raindrops

A soft and romantic piano and soft strings track, creating a nostalgic and emotional atmosphere. Great for background music in videos, love scenes, presentations and other sentimental productions.

Lost in Her Eyes

A soft flute and cello melody over piano and strings background, creating a calm and emotional atmosphere. Great for films, videos, sentimental content and other projects.

Silent Poem

A calm and sentimental piano and soft strings track, creating a nostalgic and peaceful atmosphere. Perfect for background music in romantic trailers, films, YouTube videos and wherever an emotional atmosphere is needed.

Emotional Salvation

Emotional and sad track featuring celeste, piano, strings and more. Will work well in the background of films, documentaries, games and other media seeking a cinematic intense tone.

Unreachable

Ominous sounding background track featuring piano and orchestral instruments. It slowly builds and ends in an open way. Will work well in games, film and other media.

I Promise

A calm piano and orchestra track, creating a sentimental and nostalgic atmosphere. Great for background music in presentations, films, videos, wedding footage, emotional scenes and other content.

Endless Blue

A calm and romantic piano melody with soft orchestra background, great for background music in videos, emotional scenes, presentations, or whenever a soft and sentimental atmosphere is needed.

In a Candle's Light

A soft guitar arpeggio with strings background and a very sentimental and lyrical cello melody, creating a calm and romantic atmosphere. Great for background music in films, spots, presentations or other videos, whenever an emotional and tranquil atmosphere is needed.

Calm Waters

A soft and very melodic guitar tune, ideal for background music in videos, documentaries, YouTube productions and other projects.

Troubled Mysticism

Sad and tense background track featuring dramatic strings as well as some mystic sounding elements. Will work great in film, documentary and other media types.

The Illusionist

An enchanting solo piano composition that creates a mysterious vibe. Perfect for TV, film, advertising, documentaries, gaming and more.

Suspenseful Puzzle

Ominous and tense background track featuring piano, Celeste, strings and more. Will work really well in games or any media in need of a suspenseful engaging tone.

Back To You

"Back to You" is a heartfelt and emotional song that tells the story of a female singer addressing a lost partner, expressing her unwavering hope and determination to reunite with them someday. The lyrics are a poignant blend of longing, regret, and resilience, capturing the enduring love that keeps...

Autumn Leaves

A soft piano and strings track with a flute melody, creating a calm and nostalgic atmosphere. Great for films, videos, presentations, commercials, wedding footage and other sentimental content.

Sad Music and Its Emotional Depth

Sad music is usually built around piano, strings, or soft acoustic instruments. The tone is slow, reflective, and restrained, creating space for emotion without overwhelming the visuals.

Where to Use Sad Music

When you need to underscore loss, reflection, or quieter storytelling, sad music is a strong choice. If your project relies heavily on intimacy and melodic expression, you might also explore piano tracks. Solo piano cues carry the same emotional weight but with more simplicity, making them perfect for documentaries, heartfelt ads, or character-driven films. Another alternative is nostalgic music, which shares the reflective mood but adds a sense of memory and time passing. This works especially well in personal stories, retrospectives, or brand films that look back on milestones.

Royalty-Free Sad Tracks at Themusicase.com

All sad tracks at Themusicase.com are royalty-free and include a sync license. The catalog includes minimal piano pieces, string ensembles, and soft ambient cues ready for film, broadcast, and online use.
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