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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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Ominous and Sad

Melancholic sounding background track featuring strings and piano over a pulsing obscure beat with bass.

Weary With Excitement

Exciting, powerful, epic and dramatic composition for movies, games, trailers, teasers and other projects! Enjoyable listening!

Sunny Rain

Featuring wonderful cellos, atmospheric violins, beautiful piano melody, tight contrabasses, bright trumpets and brass, cinematic drums and percussions

I Am Nervous

Suspenseful background track with cinematic qualities. Different colors are presented through a varied arrangement of instrument groups.As the piece evolves a hint of sadness is introduced.

Without You

Powerful, rich and disturbing progressive metal composition for your video, audio collections and other projects! Enjoyable listening!

Deep Abstract Wavy Hip-Hop

A deep, bastract royalty free lofi synthwave song, with retro synth leads, synth pads, deep bass and catchy hip-hop beat, best for reels, inspiring aesthetics and artistic related content.

Dark Forgotten Memories

Dark obscure sounding background track featuring ominous synthesizers, effects, strings and a haunting piano melody.

End Of The Human Race

Track created to underscore documentaries on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology, but also Sci Fi shorts, movies, videogames, podcast, commercials. The robots have taken over, in this track with a dystopian atmosphere we hear mysterious electronic sounds (the language of machines), a slow an...

Wings Of Destiny

Dramatic, exciting, inspiring and epic composition for movies and games, trailers, teasers, advertising and other projects! Instruments in track: drums, basses, cellos, violins, trumpets, trombones and piano. Enjoyable listening!

Pain

Disturbing, powerful, sorrow and energetic metal composition for your video, audio collections and other projects! Enjoyable listening!

Distant Sorrow

Sentimental, inspired, compassionate and relaxing composition for your video, audio collections and other projects. Perfect for film and games with a sad, sentimental, sensual and tragic scenes, also dramatic and sorrowful endings. Thanks for listening!

Moth

An intimate song for vocals and piano, with tender lyrics and a simple melody line, ideal for an emotional film scene.

Falling Flowers

Perfect for love stories, slideshow, soft and tender videos, beautiful scenes, classical videos, nature, timelapse, wedding album and other inspiring projects.

The Last Of Us

Atmospheric cinematic sci-fi trailer music. Perfect for epic trailers, games and movies, cosmic videos, teasers, intros, presentations, thriller and promos

Epic Cinematic Inspiring Movie

'Epic Cinematic Inspiring Movie' is a cinematic background music track that will take you on an emotional journey. Starting with a melancholic piano melody, the piece gradually builds up with the addition of string and brass sections, creating a suspenseful and dramatic atmosphere. Before the tra...

Running To Freedom

Great choice for cinematic and social projects or advertising about nature, history, war, slide shows, etc…

Crown

Cinematic orchestral soundtrack for scenes of tension, triumph and determination in your epic, martial projects.

After The Storm

Sad and emotional orchestra music. This track featuring piano, strings, woodwinds, brass and choir. Good for drama movies, advertisement, montages, romantic videos, photo slideshows, love story, travel videos, sentimental videos and nature videos

Game Menu Dramatic

by Whvle
Dark and Atmospheric Game Intro Music. Ideal for dramatic / dark / suspense / shooters.

Mind Games (Cinematic & Dramatic)

by Whvle
Cinematic dramatic music. Ideal for all type of cinematic content. Provides a dramatic and uplifting mood.

Beams (Cinematic & Dramatic)

by Whvle
Cinematic dramatic music. Ideal for all type of cinematic content. Provides a dramatic and uplifting mood.

Dune Cinematic Adventure Music

by Whvle
Cinematic adventure dramatic music. Ideal for trailer, any type of cinematic content. Provides a dark and adventure mood.

Emotional Song

Emotional cinematic piano music for your film production, television, commercials, documentary and more..

Sadness

A sad story about love, or maybe just about the hard life of people on the planet …

Brave New World

Exciting, hopeful cinematic music. Suitable for nature, historical background, dramatic movies, social media, tragical moments..

Heroic Epos

Atmospheric, dramatic cinematic music tracks with strings, brass section, epic drums and emotional melodies, best for action trailers, movies or openers

Running to Freedom

Exciting, hopeful cinematic music. Suitable for nature, historical background, dramatic movies, social media, tragical moments..

Cold Cliffs

Exciting, hopeful cinematic music. Suitable for nature, historical background, dramatic movies, social media, tragical moments..

Battle For Cesar

Exciting, hopeful cinematic music. Suitable for nature, historical background, dramatic movies, social media, tragical moments..

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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