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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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Hold Me

"Hold Me" is a slow trap track with modern drums, vocal clips and ultra fat basses.

Returning Home

A melodic orchestral track with a calm harp and woodwinds opening, leading to a full orchestra emotional climax. Perfect for background music in romantic trailers, films, YouTube videos, presentations and wherever a sentimental atmosphere is needed.

Whispering Love

A calm and emotional piano track with soft background strings, creating a sentimental and nostalgic atmosphere. Great for background music is videos, presentations, films and wedding content.

Sad Story

Music for documentary projects, television, inspirational videos, and any project needing a gentle romantic sad background

A New Hope

Great for science video, corporate projects, commercials, presentations, advertisement, promos and more

Love Is Blind

This track is perfect for sentimental slideshow, social and documentary vodeo, advertise, youtube blog, wedding and love story, app and other projects

Sunshine

Piano Inspiring track with motivational and inspirational moods. Perfect for food videos, children, vlogs, and any commercial projects.

Nostalgic

Gentle piano theme with nostalgic feel and a bit of hope. Small but touching and warm piece of music good for romantic and sentimental moments in your life.

Lo-Fi Emotional Beat

by Janevo
Lo-fi hip-hop background track featuring ruined and tape smeared pianos riffs, vinyl crackles, chilled drums and chopped vocal samples. The mood is minimalist, melancholic and relaxed, faithful to the lo-fi aesthetic.

No More Pain

Emotional orchestral track for films, games, epic video, trailers, dramatic actions and news, film teasers, documentaries and adventures

Heartbroken Spy

Soulful, desperate orchestral theme with a cinematic spy story feeling. A majestic dramatic ballad with a 60's Big Band jazzy quality, featuring a powerful horn section, strings, piano and drums. The music has some kind of dark and final yet seductive mood.

Gladiator

Heroic dramatic adventure epic track for films and commercial projects

Romantic Glory

Perfect for the emotional, dramatic, romantic, romantic videos. Also for commercial and advertising purposes.

End Of Story

Triumphal inspiring symphonic orchestra music created for award show, ceremonial video, festival, contest, winner nomination, anniversary celebration, victory or grand presentation

Loss

Dramatic epic is suitable for video, games, trailer and films, YouTube videos, advertising, commercials, presentations, branding, business development, vlogs, web, TV and radio media production

Rise Of Empire

Suitable for: cinematic background, epic trailers, sad and motivational videos, war and battle scenes

Drama Story

Easy tender piano music background for advertising, wedding, love story and another video projects

Melancholic Lo-Fi

by Janevo
Lo-fi hip-hop background track featuring ruined and tape smeared pianos riffs, vinyl crackles, chilled drums and chopped vocal samples. The mood is minimalist, melancholic and relaxed, faithful to the lo-fi aesthetic.

Stay

High energy Dream Pop track. Driving bass and punchy drums throughout. Epic saxophone solo towards the end of the track. Strong 80s keys throughout the song, with both acoustic and electric guitar supporting the Pop Vocals. With Tame Impala sounds and a Retro Vintage feel, the vocal track features a...

Slow Yearning Emotional Piano And Synthesizers Drone Soundscape

Float in this yearning soundscape and let the piano keys guide you. Avaliable in long and short formats and in a cople of loopable fragments, with or without the piano riff.

Magic Evocative Ambient Soundscape With Mysterious Bells

Explore this magic evocative ambient soundscape, perfect for mysterious footage, magic scenes, docuseries and eerie sequences. Driven by synthesizers, mysterious chimes and lush pads.

Pieces of a Heart

A soft and romantic piano and pads track, creating a nostalgic and emotional atmosphere. Great for background music in videos, love scenes, presentations and other sentimental productions.

M-theory

A slow-building mysterious, eerie instrumental that begins with a digeridoo drone, joined by slowly-building haunting strings that start with a melancholy meander and develop into a rhythmic building ostinato. The piece ends with slow, long unfurling harmonies on the violin.

Small Talk

Great for tv or movie scenes dealing with relationship problems or a breakup. Full version of a song rooted in 90s alternative rock, featuring a slight emo vibe. Lyrics deal with relationships, confusion, guilt and remorse. Medium-to-slow tempo (84 BPM). Full band arrangement featuring electric g...

Fragile Earth

Plaintive, emotional piano-based piece which is designed for visuals with references to climate change, natural disasters and ecological challenges. Very slow piano chords hint at a sense of desolation and foreboding. Backing textures hint at urgency and increasing danger. A rising string phrase tow...

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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