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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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Dramatic Music Box and Orchestra

A dramatic orchestra royalty free track with music box leading part and a mystic/dark vibe. Good for fantasy/thriller film scenes, intros or trailers.

Melancholic Dramatic Post Rock

An ambient dramatic post rock track featuring melodic atmospheric guitars, fat bass and raw drums with a calm melancholic intro, neutral middle part and highly emotional final part. Good for sad film scenes, nature videos, trailers, timelapses.

Cinematic Indie

A cinematic indie rock track featuring melodic male vocals, dramatic final part with a guitar solo, indie fat drums. Good for calm and dramatic video content, film scenes.

Emotional Post Rock

An emotional post rock royalty free track featuring ambient guitars, raw drums, fat bass and powerful final part. Good for dramatic movie scenes, nature/drone videos, intros or endings.

Once As I Sailed Away

This is an ambient dramatic post rock track featuring rock guitars, fat bass, raw drums and live recorded flute.

Dramatic Sad Piano & Strings

This is a sad emotional orchestral music track with a very dramatic vibe. Perfect for santimental videos, documentaries, trailers and intros.

Blues Rock Guitar Solo

A blues rock track featuring several guitar solo parts with different moods. Good for dramatic movie scenes and sad visuals.

Dramatic Sad Piano

A dramatic and melancholic track featuring sad piano and emotional strings. Perfect for cinematic trailers, intros and other videos.

Melancholic Piano

A melancholic and emotional track featuring sad and calm piano and strings. Good for cinematic movie scenes, trailers, vlogs and other videos that need sentimental and calm background music.

Dark Day

by Muza
What awaits us in the future! What will be the post apacalypse? This track is made under the impression of cyber-punk movies. Minor motif, powerful sound, modern trap beat. The chorus of this composition will not leave your indifferent.

Abstract Hip-Hop

by Muza
Music track for detective series titles. Mix of hip-hop, trap and disturbing music. lyric piano arpeggios, sharp synths and powerful beats.

Hidden Dreams Under My Hoodie [Nostalgic Trap Beat]

Nostalgic and dreamy ambient trap song with bells, modern leads, saturated DX7, piano, 808, sub bass, inspiring pads and a pulsing trap beat – best for advertising, background music, urban, nostalgic, sad and dreamy related content.

Relaxed Background Sad

Instrumental music made for piano and strings. The style is Classical Soundtrack music, and the mood is sad and emotional. The rhythm is calm and quiet, and the play is expressive. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Later, increases emotion with the incorporat...

Winter

Instrumental music made for piano and strings. The style is cinematic Soundtrack and the mood is sad and melancholic. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Then, then increases the emotion with the orchestral instruments. This music is a perfect background for sa...

Nostalgic Cold

Instrumental music made for piano and strings. The style is soundtrack and the mood is sentimental with a little nostalgy. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Then, increases emotion with the incorporation of strings.and percussion. This music is a perfect back...

Poignant Meditative Piano

Instrumental music made for piano solo. The music is expressive and dynamic and the genre is a mix between soundtrack and classical music from 1800, with strong Chopin influences. This music is a perfect background for meditative and poignant scenes for films, tv series and other productions with si...

Nostalgia

Instrumental music made for piano and strings. The style is close to classical soundtrack music and the mood is nostalgic, emotional and a little bit melancholic. The music is expressive and is a perfect background for nostalgic and emotional scenes in films, series and other productions and situati...

Mournful Orchestral Background

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Classical Soundtrack music and the mood is mournful and sad. The rhythm is steady and determined. This music is a perfect background in films, tv series and other productions with sadness and dramatic scenes.

Sentimental Expressive Piano

Instrumental music made for piano solo. The style is Soundtrack with strong influences from new age and minimal music. The mood is melancholic and sentimental and the play it’s plenty of expressiveness. This music is a perfect background of projects with sentimental calm scenes. Also for nature an...

Torn To Pieces (No Lead)

Atmospheric, light-tension track with haunting melody, spacey synth pads, pulsating bass and percussion. Builds gradually throughout. Great as theme music for mystery / sci fi / suspense / crime drama projects.

Torn To Pieces (No Perc)

Atmospheric, light-tension track with haunting melody, spacey synth pads, pulsating bass and percussion. Builds gradually throughout. Great as theme music for mystery / sci fi / suspense / crime drama projects.

Torn To Pieces

Atmospheric, light-tension track with haunting melody, spacey synth pads, pulsating bass and percussion. Builds gradually throughout. Great as theme music for mystery / sci fi / suspense / crime drama projects.

Never Should Have Happened (No Lead)

Mysterious, melancholic track with spacey pads, delicate melody, bass and percussion. Gradually builds throughout into a slightly more optimistic, hopeful feel with lush sweeping strings. Perfect for a variety of uses.

Never Should Have Happened (No Percussion)

Mysterious, melancholic track with spacey pads, delicate melody, bass and percussion. Gradually builds throughout into a slightly more optimistic, hopeful feel with lush sweeping strings. Perfect for a variety of uses.

Never Should Have Happened

Mysterious, melancholic track with spacey pads, delicate melody, bass and percussion. Gradually builds throughout into a slightly more optimistic, hopeful feel with lush sweeping strings. Perfect for a variety of uses.

All Through The Night

A wonderful festive arrangement of the popular Christmas classic with lush strings, dreamy English Horn melody and harp. Perfect for relaxing, nostalgic, romantic, sentimental background music for your holiday project.

Charming Soul

This one is a lovely piano tune with a touching mood and warm atmospheric sound. Nice background for tender videos, romantic moments, prayerful videos, nature views, weddings, love stories, melancholic videos, meditations, contemplations, and many more.

Sentimental Strings and Piano

The Way is a dramatic, calming, emotional piece of ambient, with scratchy strings, soft piano and electronic soundscape. Very suitable for philosophical moments, looking out of the window, deep thoughts, bright mornings, sunshine and for quiet, reflective emotional videos, documentaries or arthouse...

Dark Textures Ambient

Dark and sinister ambient cinematic texture track full of fear and mystery. Great background music for storytelling video, film, documentary, game, and commercial business use.

Sad Orchestral - Loop Version

This sad and emotional royalty free music track is perfect for drama movies, cinematic films, trailers, documentaries, inspiring commercials, hollywood movie themes and short film cinematic projects. Thanks for listening and purchasing.

Emotional strings and piano

Dramatic cinematic royalty free music underscore with sad reflective feel and emotional build up for storytelling video, film, pensive vlog, somber documentary and commercial business use.

A Peaceful Sunset

Instrumental classical music made for violin, piano, guitar, glockenspiel and cello, ideal for melancholic and calm situations in films, tv series and podcast. Also great for funerals and historical documentaries with a nostalgic background.

An Emotional Farewell

sad, quiet, elegant, slow, soft, smooth, classical, violin, cello, piano, guitar, acoustic, sweet, mellow, nostalgia, emotional, sentimental, peaceful, calm, relaxed, Melancholic, contemplative, drama, funeral, reflective, tranquil, easy, meditative, inspirational, down

Bossa Super Nova

Soft and relaxing Latin Bossa Nova with romantic, dreamy, cocktail lounge feel. Elegant, jazzy, nostalgic and warm, this is a perfect Latin track for your project!

Vexatious thoughts (Sad social piano)

Acoustic gentle piano composition that creates an atmosphere of loneliness and a sad mood. Combined with sad, tragic, romantic, dramatic, social and commercial projects, animation, infographics, YouTube content, etc.

Bossa Nova Elegance

Dreamy, relaxing Latin Bossa Nova with romantic cocktail lounge feel. Elegant, jazzy, nostalgic and warm, this is a perfect Latin track for your project!

Intense Play

Suspensful, short yet engaging instrumental track. Almost anxiously floating in time, and more on the sad side, the character of the melody is accompanied by tremolo strings rising in volume - providing a bed for the sparse arrangement on top. Very suitable for transitions, suspensful cues or nervou...

Blues Rains

An instrumental slow Jazz tune with an electric guitar melody, accompanied by orchestral arrangements.

Lonely lover (Sad acoustic piano)

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

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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