Sad Music Royalty-free & Sync licensed Royalty-free: Pay once, no ongoing royalties.
Sync licensed: License includes rights to pair the music with video, film, ads, and apps.

2,554 tracks in library

Use sad music with piano, strings, and ambient textures to express loss or reflection. Perfect for documentaries, films, or social stories needing emotion.

Sad
  • 0-30 SEC
  • 31-60 SEC
  • > 61 SEC
  • LOOPS ONLY
  • ALL RESULTS

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...

Loss

Warm tender romantic music background for vlogs, timelapse and commercials

Earth

Perfect for the nature, city or architectural monuments landscape, dramatic and social project, documentary about life and tv media, presentation, movie background

Darkwave Horror

Gloomy, doomed and dark composition for your video, audio collections and other projects!

Satie - Gnossienne n. 3

Mysterious, catchy and a bit disturbing. Classical piano masterpiece by Erik Satie (1866-1925).

Satie - Gnossienne n. 2

Delicate, harmonic and a bit bizarre. Classical piano masterpiece by Erik Satie (1866-1925).

Satie - Gnossienne n. 1

Mysterious and atmospheric. Classical piano masterpiece by Erik Satie (1866-1925).

Listz - Un sospiro

Romantic and dreamy. Classical piano masterpiece by Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

Debussy - Arabesque n. 1

Mystical and peaceful tenderness. Classical piano masterpiece by Debussy (1862-1918).

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.
NOW PLAYING TRACK 1 / 500
Yann Keerim
00:00
HIDE
Redirecting to PayPal.