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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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Painful Sad Background

Truly sad emotional track consisting of piano, cello and violins painting a desperate cinematic background. Perfect to use in your film, documentary or other production seeking a profound sorrowful tone.

Unforgettable features

A slow composition of piano and strings, creating an atmosphere of feelings, memories, loneliness and a sad mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, dramatic, social videos, slide shows, etc.

Emotional insight

A calm piano composition that creates an emotional atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, emotional, social videos, animations, slideshows, YouTube content, etc.

Remaining Feelings

A calm piano composition that creates a sensual atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, social videos, animations, slideshows, YouTube content, etc.

Sad Energy Tension Background

Energetic and suspenseful background track featuring bass synth, marimba, piano and strings. Perfect to use in games, documentaries or other productions in need of a driving tone.

Sad Duduk Dle Yaman

Emotional and Epical, Folkloric and Atmospheric piece of music, featuring 2000 years old Armenian reed instrument called Duduk and a warm synth atmo pad. In the style of Arabic, Folk, Atmo, Soundscape, Meditative. The beautiful Armenian melody will evoke feeling of tenderness. Track is just right fo...

A Place Of Melancholia

Background track featuring a sad piano theme bathing in tense melancholic strings and pads. Additionally there are a few rhythmic elements that give this cue a subtle sense of tension. Perfect to use in drama, documentaries or news items in need of a unobtrusive background music.

Unspeakable Truth

A cinematic, inspirational piece featuring piano and orchestral strings and percussion. The romantic, inspirational flowing arpeggios of the piano and the epic symphony strings with a big climax will invoke magic and captivate your audiences.

The Forgotten

Slow melancholic distant piano arpeggios with a soft melody and background strings.

Fall of an Empire

A cinematic, fantasy piece featuring grand piano and strings with orchestral percussion.

Dystopia

A Haunting Piano composition. Invoking visions of a Dystopic world somewhere in the near future, a tale of hauntings and horror, or perhaps an unsolved mystery. A string ensemble supports the haunting melody and provides an air of suspense.

Sad Piano Instumental

Sad Piano Instrumental is Extremely sad, slowly moving solo piano piece with string and other instrumental. Fantastic for Youtube, Podcasts, Films, Documentaries etc. Especially great for sad scenes.

Ballad Emotional Grand Piano and String Instrumental

Ballad Emotional Grand Piano and String Instrumental is A hopeful, inspirational and lovely soundtrack. Ideal for Film Scores, emotional romantic scenes, drones, Filled with heartfelt love and emotions and ultimately will uplift you to a feeling of joy !

Dark Sad East Instrumental

Dark Sad East Instrumental Dreamy, tension, suspense and atmospheric, this music paints the skies with a distant electric piano playing different notes upon an string long and string piccato, flute background.

Sad Instruments Middle East Ramadan

Sad Instruments Middle East Ramadan is Ancient and mysterious music from the past. Middle Eastern flute and creating a very atmospheric and ethereal environment.

You're My Reason Cheating (Sad Longue Version)

You're My Reason Cheating (Sad Longue Version) with guitar instrumental, drum, bass, bell, pads, synth and other

Chill Monday (Lofi Version)

Chill Monday (Lofi Version) with Pads, Bells, Synth, Drum, Bass, Sequence Instrumental and other

Dramatic Inspiring Orchestra

by Muza
A beautiful, slightly sad composition. Well suited for sentimental scenes, as well as the length of inspiration and inspiration. She wants to say that everything will be fine!

Long Run

An acoustic arpeggio that develops with synths, bass and delayed electric guitars

An Ongoing Investigation

Suspenseful background track consisting of cello’s, synthesizers and other tense elements. This track starts without an introduction and this makes it perfectly suited to use in a film or documentary or any other production where a quick switch to suspense is needed.

Oasis

Sad piano with warm synth pads building subtly as it progresses

Looking Out

Pensive piano intro with ambient guitar layers create a sense of mystery

Asunder

Soaring electric guitar feedback that is both relaxing and melancholy

Cinema Orch Drama

The sad beautiful theme, played by the orchestra (string group, harp, flute). Ideal for movies, performances, trailers, etc. in the style of drama.

Northern Road

Dark and instrumental yet emotional track. Very melodic and somber, accompanied by piano, chamber strings and percussion. While being classical in its core nature, the orchestration also uses subtle synths and modern sound elements.

Survival Theme

Emotional yet patriotic and heroic instrumental track, very trailer-like, hybrid and engaging through wide orchestration and choir, modern accentuated strings and big, wide trailer hits as well as energetic percussion ensemble with taikos and toms. Very engaging and progressing, the heroic feel and ...

Night Watcher

Very emotional and reflective epic track, big and humble in character. Accompanied by the piano and dressed with beautiful long and nostalgic strings, this track is ideal for cinematic momentum, documentary or wide epic cues.

Rise Again

Very heartfelt and melodic emotional epic track. Beautifully accompanied and supported by the bright grand piano, this track evolves into a wide symphonic orchestra piece full of emotions and adventure. Its somber beginning caries the track through lots of nostalgia, rather romantic and reflective, ...

Sorrows

Big dark trailer track accompanied by trailer hits, chaotic fast percussion and accentuated strings. Rather dark vibe, yet vibrant and pushing forward, mid-part bigger and wider,- accompanied by choir and low brass. Very hybrid and modern, production villain-like track, perfect for a darker vibe, lu...

Calling Out

Big emotional epic track, very engaging and heartfelt. Beautifully dressed with the piano and orchestra, wide arranged and accompanied by trailer hits. It's emotional content pushes the track further and builds up into a big harmonic, sad, long and lush piece with lots of melancholy and sadness. Ide...

Call for Armor

Modern emotional epic track full of emotions and impact, progressing in the piano and orchestra. It quickly gains momentum because of its big, lush and wide string arrangement, accompanied by the choir. Very nostalgic and warm, humble and sad. Mid part dressed with modern hybrid drums, ending is rat...

Emotional Solitude Piano Background

Instrumental music made for piano solo. The style is Soundtrack Background music and the mood is sentimental and calm. The music is very expressive and is a perfect background for intimacy and emotional calm scenes in advertising, films, tv series, documentaries and other media projects with similar...

Reflection Piano Background

Instrumental music made for piano solo. The music is slow, calm and emotional, and is a perfect background for reflective and melancholic scenes in tv series and films. This music expresses loneliness, with a down mood.

Sad Reflective Cinematic Background

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Classical Soundtrack music, the mood is sad and emotional, and the play is plenty of expressiveness. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Then, the music gains expressiveness and emotion with the inco...

My Sentimental Cinematic Background

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Classical Soundtrack music and the mood is calm and sentimental. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition, then gains emotional intensity with the entrance of orchestral instruments. This music is a perfec...

Melancholic Piano in Nature

Instrumental music made for piano solo. Beautiful and sweet, the style is soundtrack classical music and the mood is poignant, sentimental and peaceful, with a melancholic expressive touch. This music is aperfect background for quiet and melancholic situations in nature and sentimental and quiet sit...

Mournful Calm Cinematic Background

Instrumental made for piano and strings. The style is very close to soundtrack and minimal music, and the mood is sad, calm and mournful. The rhythm is steady and is played mostly with a pizzicato bass. ¨this music fits perfect for films, tv series and other productions with sadness and mournful si...

Sadness Calm Reflection Background

Instrumental music made for piano and strings. The sytle is very close to soundtrack classical music background, and the rhythm is slow and calm. the mood is sad, and the music transmits calm and reflection with a strong mournful feeling. This music fits perfect in films and tv series with reflectiv...

Ambient Cinematic Piano

A depressive and melancholic orchestral track with a sad piano part, cinematic strings and touching feeling. Good for documentaries, trailers, love/war movie scenes.

Emotional Piano and Cello

A cinematic ambient royalty free track with ethereal pianos, lead cello and mellow strings. This highy emotional melancholic piece suits good for sad movie scenes, nature/drone videos, documentaries and other atmospheric 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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