Sad Music Royalty-free & Sync licensed Royalty-free: Pay once, no ongoing royalties.
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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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LY I'm Afraid

This is an emotional indie pop song about a girl who is torn up over a break up. This song is drenched in heart ache and honest fear.

LY Careful Now

This is an indie pop song that tells a depressing story about a girl who feels her world is falling apart. Great for scenes about hardships in life.

Sad Emotional Piano Strings

This track will perfectly fit for inspirational videos and motivational videos, YouTube videos, films ,TV, nature videos and photo slideshows,commercials, corporated videos, movies and more.

Social borders

A dramatic hip-hop composition with electric piano, strings and percussion, creating a heartwarming atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with dramatic, sad, social, nostalgic videos, etc.

Arguments and facts

Sentimental acoustic composition with piano, creating an emotional atmosphere and a dramatic mood. Combined with sentimental, dramatic videos, nostalgic, love themes, slide shows, social videos, etc.

Inflections life

An emotional composition of piano and strings, creating an atmosphere of feelings, emotions and dramatic mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, dramatic, social videos, slide shows, etc.

Sad Duduk - Loop Version

Duduk is a wonderful royalty free oriental music piece which creates an amazing cinematic and deep atmosphere. This ethnic music theme is an expressive and mysterious music story specially designed for your unique projects. Featuring this unique instrument called "duduk", this contemplative and magi...

Dramatic and Emotional

Sentimental cinematic track which packs a lot of emotions. It features a string ensemble consisting of violins, violas and cellos and percussion. It is perfect as underscore or background music in a variety of projects like short movies and films, video games, commercials, advertisements, promos, do...

Can You

This is a nostalgic indie pop song about a past relationship. It is heartfelt and depressing. Great for a scene where a girl thinks of her former lover.

Give Me One Good Reason

This is a pop/rock song that incorporates electronic elements. It’s a very depressing and emotional song. Its about living with regret and seeing no reason to keep going on.

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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