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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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Melancholy Investigation

Melancholic ominous background track featuring a dreamy piano sound as well as strings and synthesizers.

Misty Dawn (Dark Atmospheric Background)

A dark and ambient track with strings and synth background and a simple piano and pad melody, great for films, videos, trailers and various other projects requiring a mysterious atmosphere.

Loss (Melancholic and Inspiring Cinematic)

A soft and melancholic piano melody leading to a very emotional and inspiring orchestral climax. Perfect for background music in romantic trailers, sentimental scenes, YouTube videos and wherever an emotional atmosphere is needed.

Orphanage (Soft Nostalgic Orchestral)

A soft celeste and pad opening and a nostalgic piano melody leading to a full orchestra emotional climax. Great for background music in videos, love scenes, presentations, or whenever a soft and romantic atmosphere is needed.

Abstract Beauty & Emotional Ambient

Abstract Beauty & Emotional Ambient Abstract Beauty & Ambient – Beautiful atmospheric background track with a heart touching flying guitar melody, perfectly suited for your project: slide show, time-laps, travel, sad moments, happy moments, live style, and much more!

Trance

Trance Emotional, energetic and motivational progressive trance track with catchy chords.

Lockdown Party

Electronic Modern Progressive Fashion House Music track for commercials, Instagram stories, cafe music, casino music, TV, Radio, YouTube, Fashion Show, presentations, art action or background music for advertising videos, action film trailers, sports games, and also good for everyday listening.

Reverie

Inspiring, dramatic, hopeful, and beautiful cinematic soundtrack. Touching, solemn, tender, elegant, encouraging; feelings of joy for your media work. Perfect for background music in slideshows, inspirational commercials, motivational and uplifting presentations, sad & sentimental videos, coaching, ...

Beto

Calm & Emotional Ambient Classical Piano & Violin music. Perfect for background music in romantic trailers, films, YouTube videos and wherever an emotional tone is needed.

In the Deep Darkness

A dark, moody, mysterious background track. Someone is searching for answers in the depths of their soul.

Solo Path

Emotional Ambient Piano Music featuring soprano angelic/ethereal vocals and synthesizer strings. Great for background music in presentations, videos, films and various sentimental content.

For When It Rains

Sad & Emotional Ambient Piano Music featuring soprano angelic/ethereal vocals and atmospheric synthesizer background. Perfect as a background for motivational, inspiring, emotional videos.

Cyber Sunny Future - Futuristic Synthwave Inspiration

Ambient, chill, experimental, electronic and eclectic retrowave pop audio background! Perfect for movie trailers, photography tutorials, tech tutorials, gaming intros, gaming shows and twitch presentations, music streams, synthwave live shows and club videos, sport documentaries, architecture logo...

Tense And Dense

Suspenseful atmospheric background track featuring ominous strings, guitar, piano and synthesizer. Will work well in the background of documentaries, commercials or any other media. The instrumentation and production are made so that it blends easily with other elements like narration.

Suspenseful Thoughts

Suspenseful background track featuring celeste, piano and strings. The track is driven forward by tense rhythmic elements and will work well supporting a variety of media seeking ominous, worrying sounding musical support.

Arcade Of Secrets - Easygoing Synthwave

Ambient, chill, experimental, electronic and eclectic retrowave pop audio background! Perfect for movie trailers, photography tutorials, tech tutorials, gaming intros, gaming shows and twitch presentations, music streams, synthwave live shows and club videos, sport documentaries, architecture logo...

After The Summer - Feel Good Tropical Pop

Highly inspirational, positive, light, upbeat and motivational pop urban audio background! Warm synths, Addictive Guitars, Bangin' drums and a cozy bassline in this super dope and inspiring track. Perfect for sports, travel, gaming, kids education, self-improvement, make up and tech tutorial vlogs...

The Fallen (Orchestral Anthem)

A melancholic orchestral track with a soft boys choir melody, followed by a lyrical cello and piano part, leading to a full orchestra and men’s choir very sentimental anthemic finale. Great for creating a melancholic and at the same time heroic background atmosphere in various films, videos or oth...

The Secret (Piano & Orchestra Lyrical Adventure)

An emotional track, starting with a soft piano and cello melody, leading to a more dynamic full orchestra second part, with a heroic brass lead and returning to a soft piano closing. Great for a variety of projects, like films, videos, commercials or documentaries.

Deep Breathing | Chillstep, Trap, Pop, Vlog Music

Beautiful Electric Guitar in Intro and powerful trap drums with synth and piano & background vocals make this track sound very deep and upbeat

Passionate Background

Gentle background track surrounding a violin theme. Accompanied by marimba, piano and some percussive sounds this piece fits well in the background of an infomercial, commercial, documentary or any other media seeking a friendly musical companion.

Finding Things Out

Calm background track featuring calm sounds and melodies. Will work wel in documentaries, film or any other media.

Ticking Clock

A soft piano and pads rhythmic background with a sparse piano melody, creating a calm but flowing atmosphere. Great for background music in presentations, videos, films and various sentimental content.

Final Act (Cinematic Orchestral)

An orchestral track with piano melody and orchestra background, gradually evolving to an emotional and rather heroic climax. Great for background music in films, videos, emotional scenes and various sentimental content.

It's not Over

A soft and melancholic piano melody with ambient pads background creating a calm and relaxing atmosphere. Perfect for background music in romantic trailers, sentimental scenes, presentations, YouTube videos and wherever an emotional music touch is needed.

Vapidly Lonesome

Inspired by “The Revenant Main Theme” (by Ryuichi Sakamoto), this is a dark, vapid, and spacious, minimalist piece, for intense inner drama and turmoil, with orchestral strings, horns, and drones.

Facing Challenges

Suspenseful background track featuring piano, strings and light percussion. Towards the middle a choir is introduced to enhance the tension some before ending with a subtle piano motif.

African Story

African Story is a special music background track mixing African sounds and rhythms (Kalimba, Djembe, African percussions) Mood: Inspirational, beautiful, emotional, peaceful, soundscape, atmosphere, ambient.

chariots

What would a horror film be without its music? Fear resembles the last wrong piece of a puzzle The most typical characteristic of horror film music is that it is dissonant, that is, it is based on intervals that do not sound stable and complete. Instead, they have a suspended sound, and in this way...

The Curse (Dark Atmospheric Orchestral)

A dark and atmospheric orchestral track, with a low strings and glockenspiel opening, a haunting cello melody, leading to a full orchestra emotional climax. Great for background music in videos, films, children projects and other productions.

Abstract Sad Background

Calm and sad background track featuring piano, marimba, celeste and more. This piece has been produced to work supporting narration and other elements within a media production.

Hopeless Cause

Sad acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Suitable for dramatic, sad dramas and documentaries

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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