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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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Calm Yet Suspenseful Background

Calm suspenseful background track featuring piano, synth and rhythmic elements. The perfect musical companion for productions seeking tension and reflective qualities.

Autumn Mist Piano

Calm and intriguing ambient piano music, with textures of synth elements, strings and percussive instruments. This piece of music will work best as underscore and background for documentaries, podcasts, film and drama with an emotional, melancholy and mysterious mood!

Documentary Sad Ambient

Documentary Sad Ambient – melancholic ambient music. Great for films, trailers, vlogs, videos. Cinematic Documentary Music for you! You can use it for any videoproject about nature, social videos, romantic and sentimental videos, timelapse, travel videos, beautiful scenes, slideshows and many ot...

Jeremiah 17

An emotional, cinematic electronic music track with sweeping builds, emotional string melodies and electronic ambience, best for movies, video games, trailers and TV shows.

Shady Stinger

A glitchy hip hop track, with of drums, synth bass and cool electro synth textures that make it a useful music for your documentaries, news and technology projects.

The One To Come

An emotional and positive, ambient, cinematic track with atmospheric pads, inspirational strings and soft piano.

Searching

A mysterious and ominous cinematic track with soft piano, background vocal sounds, strings and atmospheric pads.

Uncertainty

A dark and eerie cinematic track with strange vocals, atmospheric pads and emotional strings. Great for documentaries, videos games and more.

John

A calm and peaceful, cinematic track with soft piano, atmospheric pads and strings. Great for background music for movies, documentaries, video games and more.

Into The Wilderness

An emotional, ambient, cinematic track with atmospheric pads, inspirational strings and electronic ambience. Great soundscape for movies, documentaries, video games and more.

Technology Documentary

This documentary technology electronic ambient background music track. Great sound is drums, warm bass, tech and glitch percussion, guitar, airy piano and atmospheric synths. It’ll perfectly for hi-tech and science videos, nature and travel projects, space documentaries movie, time lapse videos an...

Lo-Fi Background Hip-Hop

Lo-Fi Background Hip-Hop Music. Perfect for: advertisment, vlog, blog, food and cooking video, fashion clothing presentation, slideshow, opener, car review, as background for cafe and restaurant, for slow motion video, skateboarding and extreme street sport video, travel vlog, instagram stories a...

Spacing quester

A cosmic background with an unearthly atmosphere and a dramatic mood. In combination with space, drama, documentary, social videos, commercial projects, etc.

I am not alone

Sentimental, lyrical melody played on piano. Also there is a violin and flute. Perfect for your video memories.

Never Ever Lose Hope (short verson)

Melancholic, dreamy piano piece with spacious atmospheric feel. Simple and non-obtrusive, yet full of emotion, this ambient track works well behind dialog.

Holding On To Hope (short version)

Dreamy, reflective piano piece with light atmospheric strings. This delicate tune has a simple melody and conveys a feeling of hope and melancholy, yet subtly optimistic. Perfect for emotional, peaceful background music.

The Tension Mounts

Spacious light-tension track filled with mystery and intrigue. Haunting piano melody, dark synths and percussion - perfect for emotion enhancing music for your mystery / suspense / crime drama / investigation / horror projects.

The Tension Mounts (no piano or drums)

Spacious light-tension track filled with mystery and intrigue. Haunting piano melody, dark synths and percussion - perfect for emotion enhancing music for your mystery / suspense / crime drama / investigation / horror projects.

The Tension Mounts (no lead)

Spacious light-tension track filled with mystery and intrigue. Haunting piano melody, dark synths and percussion - perfect for emotion enhancing music for your mystery / suspense / crime drama / investigation / horror projects.

The Tension Mounts (no drums)

Spacious light-tension track filled with mystery and intrigue. Haunting piano melody, dark synths and percussion - perfect for emotion enhancing music for your mystery / suspense / crime drama / investigation / horror projects.

Sense Of Mystery

A cool, mysterious track with a spacey, atmospheric, intriguing feel. Great as scene-enhancing backing music for mystery / suspense / crime drama / detective projects. Gradually builds throughout using subtle layers and instrumentation.

Sense Of Mystery (no lead)

A cool, mysterious track with a spacey, atmospheric, intriguing feel. Great as scene-enhancing backing music for mystery / suspense / crime drama / detective projects. Gradually builds throughout using subtle layers and instrumentation.

Sense Of Mystery (no lead or drums)

A cool, mysterious track with a spacey, atmospheric, intriguing feel. Great as scene-enhancing backing music for mystery / suspense / crime drama / detective projects. Gradually builds throughout using subtle layers and instrumentation.

Sense Of Mystery (no drums)

A cool, mysterious track with a spacey, atmospheric, intriguing feel. Great as scene-enhancing backing music for mystery / suspense / crime drama / detective projects. Gradually builds throughout using subtle layers and instrumentation.

Sahara

This is a track with an ambient character and depth.Vocal hooks, orchestral violins, brass and percussion combined with synthesis immerse you in a world of heat and silence. The track is ideal for a nature documentary or a travel TV channel.

Hopeless Situation (Epic Hybrid Orchestral)

A staccato played cello, carried along by a synth bass, and a guiding simulated santur, meld to a theme, which suits well to an epic battle scene. Reenforced by additional percussions. Powerful and pompous

Cinematic Emotional Orchestra

Dynamic and melodic cinematic piece played by a full orchestra. It includes strings, violins, brass and percussion.

Big Epic Journey (60 sec)

Epic, light-tension track with grand cinematic strings, percussion and piano. Gradually builds throughout - perfect for projects needing powerful, dramatic backing music!

Big Epic Journey (no drums)

Epic, light-tension track with grand cinematic strings, percussion and piano. Gradually builds throughout - perfect for projects needing powerful, dramatic backing music!

Big Epic Journey (strings only)

Epic, light-tension track with grand cinematic strings, percussion and piano. Gradually builds throughout - perfect for projects needing powerful, dramatic backing music!

Big Epic Journey

Epic, light-tension track with grand cinematic strings, percussion and piano. Gradually builds throughout - perfect for projects needing powerful, dramatic backing music!

Emotional Rock Ballad

Emotional and powerful rock ballad with clean and distorted guitar. It features a melodic verse and a dynamic chorus.

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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