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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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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

Heavy Heart

Sad acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Somber and emotional. Great for dramatic tv/film underscore, documentaries, and reality tv

Twist Of Fate

serene melancholic track with piano as main instrument. Pad and percussion builds the song to the end. Cinematic reflective vibe great for montages or inspirational ads

Tainted Questions

Comtemplative and riveting modern neoclassical guitar ensemble track. Mysteriuos, intriguing, and poignant vibe with tense plucking, lead arpeggios, ambient fx and strong bass line. Suitable for artful tv/film programs, suspense, crime dramas, documentaries, and serious drama programming.

Stand Down

Hip hop style with sampled vocals. Defeated and negative undertones that starts with acoustic guitar and groovy drum pattern. Great for TV/Film and ads that need a dark sad urban vibe

Sinister Newborn

Horror cue filled with evil and ominous atmosphere. Industrial bangs and an eerie music box melody hinting evil lullabye. great for suspense and horror genres

Sinister Departure

a hauntingly tense piano piece that transitions from dark and ominous to light and positive resolution. Suitable for dramatic content, crime and investigation, and horror, suspense TV/ Film underscore

Sinister Children

dark and ominous track with children choir, ambient and textural sounds, percussion, pulses, morphing brasses, and droning plucks. Evil, scary, and chilling. Great for horror and halloween content, mystery suspense tv film programming, and dark themes

Scene City

Dark macabre hiphop track with boys choir, dark piano, & acoustic guitar...Ominous Depressing Vibe good for horror, mystery, and thriller content. Also good for ads and commercials

Sad Depressing Guitar Weeping

Hopeless, misery, desolate, depressing, and nihilistic post rock guitar track. The vibe is very dark,defeated, and sparse. Suitable for post apocalyptic programs, death and despair themed content, and dark commercial/ads

Melancholy Piano Guitar Serenade 2

Piano & guitar Instrumental contemplative track In Minor Key. Puzzled and unsettling vibes. Great for suspense, drama, thriller, crime investigation, and documentaries

Last Request

A slow, poignant, emotional, heartfelt folk track with a guitalele as lead & acoustic guitar as rhythm. Sad but hopeful tone great for corporate drama, montages and underscore

Heartbreak Lane

Dual solo guitars with a sad, depressing vibe. Slow tempo with a feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Great for TV/Film montages with this emotionally charged piece

Defeated Soul

Tension cue full of sadness and defeat. Synth textures and piano guitar melody lines encompass this underscore style track. Somber vibe great for TV/Film underscore or theme song

Attic Imprints

Solemn, Inspirational and Somber Acoustic Country Folk Style Track with Acoustic Guitar and Strings. Great for reflective, dramatic content and vlogs

Suspense And Melancholy

Melancholic and slightly suspenseful background track featuring ticking sounds, piano, bells and strings.

Morning Light

Music that inspires and creates a positive feeling. A soft and romantic piano, oboe and strings melody, creating a calm and sentimental atmosphere, ideal for background music in presentations, films, commercials, short videos and various other projects.

City of Clouds

An emotional track, with piano and strings background and a lyrical cello melody creating a nostalgic atmosphere. Ideal for background music in presentations, videos, slideshows, wedding scenes and other intimate content.

Love is the Key

A soft piano and flute melody, followed by a full orchestra emotional climax. Great for documentaries, films, presentations and other productions requiring a calm and sentimental atmosphere.

Developing Insights

Calm friendly slightly suspenseful background track featuring celeste, marimba, piano and strings among other instruments.

Beautiful cinematic track

Beautiful cinematic track for emotional stories about love, adventures, weddings, passion and memories. Perfect choice for Cinematic Trailers and other inspirational projects, film, promotional and motivational corporate videos.

A very soulful R&B ballad

A very soulful R&B ballad with rich and gorgeous electric guitars and synths with a very grooving keys, bass and drum programming. Perfect for romantic love themed TV and film productions.

Bluesy rock designed for TV or web ads

Bluesy rock designed for TV or web ads. Funky, groovy, with a 70s feel, this mid-tempo lively track is perfect for conveying a sexy, rich, yet elegant soundscape. Great for productions that require a pleasing, positive, warm vibe, with a touch of retro, such as films, commercials and Instrumental,

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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