Music for Drama and Personal Stories is a wide ranging description, since you can arguably use anything from hard rock to solo piano or solo cello music to illustrate personal stories. But we've tried to represent tracks here that have a certain emotional, introspective, or thoughtful side to it. Be it independent rock or orchestral / classical based music, you should find music here with an introspective feel; something that you would want to use when you are telling stories about people and their lives. This music also tends to be background music / underscores, rather than up-front music, although there are exceptions as some pop/rock music go well with personal dramas (e.g. "Grey's Anatomy)"
A slow, dreamy and touching Ambient music track with ethereal pads and piano. Reflective, melancholic. Wonderment, amazement, introspective, wistful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Busy / Lively / Bustling / Urgent / Playful / Stimulating / Quirky / Quizzical Music. Small orchestra soundtrack piece, featuring live performed orchestral instruments, suitable as music for film and other media. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 94 BPM]
Neo-classical, raw and naked, cello and violins in a film noir or classic drama mood. A sonically hopeful and emotional vibe convey itself with a really sweet and tender sound and feel backed by high controlled violins and cellos to bring a balance to this very delicate sounding track. Poignant and intimate. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A delightful and feathery light, impressionistic, neo-classical piano piece, with a slight jazz influence. Pretty, pastoral, dreamy and fluttery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Johann Sebastian Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach, Menuet in C minor, BWV Anh.121. Classical music performed live in studio, exclusively for Lynne Publishing, by concert pianist Želimir Panić. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A comforting, heartwarming soft rock / pop track with endearing melodies and a light rock instrumental production. Homely and wholesome. Friendship, family values, the important things in life. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
Elegiac, emotional, poignant, yet inspiring and heartfelt music. Evokes determination in the face of uncertainty; beauty in the midst of the unknown; remembrance in a glare towards the future. Courage, bravery and boldness music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A light ambient / easy and soft, Cinematic pop music track. Understated, mellow and touching. Reflective and heartening music. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A soaring arrangement that builds into blissful layers of cello and voice. Soulful, dreamy and reflective, this beautiful piece is played by professional cellist, Shena Power who has played on other Elliot Simons tracks, The Cairn Stones, Mountain Lake and Celtic Requiem. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 54 BPM]
Deep and mysterious, mystical, dreamy and other-worldly, this downbeat ambient piano and ‘skippy’ breaks track glides and floats creating a very relaxed and chilled out groove. Works great for spiritual and nature scenes or as a bed for voiceovers - the ‘no drums’ version ideal for relaxation, meditation, advertising. [Note: This track has a slighty "dusty" / "scratchy" sound. This is done on purpose, for effect. It is not an error with the file or weakness in the recording process]. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 112 BPM]
A reflective, melancholic and wistful royalty free music soundtrack featuring a pulsating kalimba, piano and a gentle string ensemble. Thoughtful, insightful and contemplative, this track will go well with many types of melancholy, reflective, introspective and serious content, as well as scenes of nature, landscapes, community and charity, people and relationships. [Tempo: Slow / 135 BPM]
A chilled and ambient track with simple electric piano, etherial synths, simple drums, and piano. Great for setting a laid back, yet thoughtful or reflective atmosphere. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
A very touching and poignant orchestral piece. Emotional, spiritual, heavenly. Grand orchestral sound, available with or without choir. The piece returns to the understated, heartening opening motif towards the end. Faith / Wonderment / Togetherness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 67 BPM]
Soft, caring and nostalgic, easy Acoustic Guitar with subtle strings and cello. Heartwarming / Family / Friends / Love / Relaxating / Happy / Thankful. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Inspiring, soaring cinematic ambient music track with acoustic guitar, piano and sparse percussion. Think reaching goals, hope, prosperity, aspirations. Heartwarming and sincere music. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
An emotional and inspiring music with a dramatic, valiant, achievement mood. Featuring symphonic orchestra with large percussion ensemble. Heroic / Patriotic / Greatness. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Robert Schumann, Bunte Blätter (Translation: Coloured Leaves), Op. 99, No. 1 in A Major. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An endearing and timeless, cinematic / small orchestra track with a very inspirational, uplifting and heartening feel. The understated production combines with the graceful melodies to bring a sense of elegance, hope, warmth and love. From a gentle start, this track builds up to a more grand main theme, before settling back down with a mellow ending. Stately, poignant, heartwarming and emotional. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
New classical music for film, drama, TV, and storytelling. Piano with light orchestra. Thoughtful / Questioning / Story developing. Great background music for scenes of work, progress, movement, information flow. Detective work, information coming to light, a mystery being unfolded. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
This serene music track is straightaway soothing, calming and elicits receptiveness. The piano and synth melody delicately touches over a shifting bed of pads and intricate drums/percussion. The reflective moods this track inspires work perfectly in dramas and documentaries. Ethereal / Reflective / Complex. [Tempo: Slow / 71 BPM]
A pleasant, warm and easy background music track. Light and comforting, with piano and subtle use of synth and pads. A soft and ethereal electric guitar enters in the second half. Heartwarming / Homey / Family / Caring. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
A sombre, ethereal, ambient piece. Sorrowful, dejected, mournful music. A feeling of finality, of surrender. But also hopeful and full of wonderment towards the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 112 BPM]
A very inspirational and heartening / motivating royalty free background music track that builds up from a very subtle beginning, gradually grows into a crescendo of achievement, wonderment and amazement. This track is Epic in a subtle kind of way, and will go well with subjects relating to achievement, coming together to overcome challenges, buidling a better future, striving to better ourselves, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 101 BPM]
An epic and orchestral music track with a sense of grandeur and greatness, with powerful percussive section and rising motion. Suitable as music for victorious and achievement scenery. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A touching and poignant solo piano piece for reflection and contemplation. Delicate, impressionistic music track. Performed on a 'dusty old' piano, with natural mechanical noises of the piano. (The 'Clean piano sound' version uses a different piano sound without the mechanical noises). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track is recorded with a real live orchestra. Heroic, touching, inspiring piece full of hope, glory and emotion. Good for heroism, achievement, homecoming, sacrifice. Also for emotional stories of real lives / drama / melodrama, war / history and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Positive piano theme with a majestic and inspiring orchestral feel. Feelgood / Successful / Motivational music track. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Staccato cellos, pianos, uneasy harmony resolving in beauty (1 min), slightly serious yet playful and lively. Works with advertising, drama, avant-garde film, mysteries and television dramas. [Tempo: Fast / 113 BPM]
A tasteful, pretty and transparent track featuring piano and a small string ensemble. Neo classical. Light, hopeful, positive and heartening. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Amazement / Wonderment filled blockbuster music track, featuring dramatic string section, simple piano melody and wide brass section. Epic, in a restrained, subtle way. Suitable as music for trailers and powerful scenery. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Pensive and mysterious, rhythmic film/drama underscore. Science, technology, investigation, perhaps forensics or chemistry. Finding solutions, interpreting clues, maybe building up to something. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat major (Erdody, Sunrise) Hob.III:78 Op.76 No.4: Movement 1. Allegro con spirito. Classical music recorded live in studio by the Allegro String Ensemble, exclusively for Lynne Publishing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Touching and nostalgic, warm and tender piano piece. Fragile and delicately flowing. Neo-classical / Ambient piano work for reflection, contemplation and love / intimacy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A slow, mournful piano music track. Fragile / Touching Music. [Tempo: Very slow / 58 BPM]
A lush and smooth Ambient Pop music track with an uplifting and blissful feel. Cinematic, epic, graceful music. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A delicate, reflective and softly spoken, lovely piano music theme. Relaxing and uncomplicated. Touching and gently flowing. Dreamy, happy and soothing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 94 BPM]
A thoughtful, considering, slightly mysterious piece. An undercurrent of activity, processing, finding clues, or something brooding under the surface. Available with or without the vocal phrases. Investigative / Crime / Contemplative Music. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A determined, rhythmic, neo classical / film soundtrack for drama and storytelling. Dark and pensive, with a sense of building tension, perhaps building up to conflict or trouble. The rhythm is a slow march, and the music builds up slowly, with a sense of mystery, the pressure building. [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
Tender, warm and endearing Piano and subtle orchestra piece. Suitable for personal dramas and touching stories. Intimate / Caring / Flowing. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
An orchestral / electronic hybrid soundtrack with emotional depth, full of amazement and wonderment. Chamber orchestra with movie / film-score textures. A subtle pulse builds gradually up towards an emotional climax. Graceful, elegant and dignified, this track has a a timeless sound and a poignant mood. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
A beautifully wistful female voice blends with soaring cellos and distant washes in this ethereal and atmospheric aria based on traditional folk music, yet with a dark, contemporary nursery rhyme quality. A companion to the popular Celtic Requiem track and with a similar spiritual feel. Cello & voice adapted and performed by Shena Power. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A soft and soothing, delicate and graceful solo piano piece. Romantic, reflective, mellow, sweet and uncomplicated. We have this as a normal clean piano version, and as a 'dusty old nostalgic piano sound' version. [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
A light, airy chamber orchestra track featuring strings, woodwinds and piano. Catchy melody, motivational harmony and cinematic mood gives it soft but optimistic orchestral sound. Wonderment / Happiness / Flowering Music. [The 'Radio Edit' version has been edited to reduce the 'intensity' of the most dramatic/climax part of the track. This could make it less suitable for drama, advertising etc. where you need a build-up to a climax, but more even-going, more suitable for just listening.] [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An ambient, electric guitar music piece. Dreamy, contemplative, reflective. Flowing / Ethereal / Warm / Relaxing music. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
An inspirational, soaring, cinematic music, featuring chamber orchestra, piano and percussion. Uplifting, hopeful and with a sense of achievement and overcoming challenges, this music track is suitable for inspirational videos and films, as well as natural beauty and amazement. [Tempo: Medium / 165 BPM]
A mellow, heartfelt acoustic and electric guitar ballad, somewhere between Light Rock and Country Music. Hopeful, sincere and warm music track. E-bow lead solo. [Tempo: Slow / 73 BPM]
A cinematic music track with an inspiring, achievement mood. Featuring big orchestra, with strings and piano playing the main role. Evolves into big, epic track. Inspirational / Amazement Music. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
Dramatic, suspense track featuring orchestra, piano and pulsating synths. Suspense mood is dominant, even though track has some epic elements. Works great for drama, dramatic trailers and more. Tension / Mysterious / Emotive / Epic. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A very warm, delicate, graceful and soothing jazz ballad. Melancholic / Soothing / Nostalgic / Loving Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 82 BPM]
A touching and tender music track featuring piano and strings, with dominant cellos. Graceful, Delicate, Beautiful, Soft and Caressing music. [Tempo: Slow / 155 BPM]
