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 neo-classical piece with a sense of reflection, dignity, history and timeless elegance. An underlying sorrow or sadness balanced with an angelic beauty. Fragile and delicate, with a solo soprano vocal and a solo violin. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Inspiring, emotional and reflective music track with a dreamy and ethereal feel. Imaginative and creative composition that brings a a feeling of wonder and excitement. Thoughtful and wonderful music that creates a magical atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Hopeful and positive music, with a strong achievement vibe. Track develops from a simple piano ostinato into a light-hearted confident vibe. Repetitive pulsing structure evokes a sense of purpose and progress. Great for corporate, advertising and storytelling. Very inspiring. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Delicate and beautiful piano music, with a strong classical influence. Emotional and hopeful lullaby, with lots of heart-warming vibe. [Tempo: Slow / 69 BPM]
Acoustic guitar, piano and ethereal pads. Textural, reflective, dreamy, melancholic and fragile. Available with or without 'oooh' type vocal. Good for film / drama, nature and poignant footage. Beautiful and sad. The piano part is performed on an old upright piano for a nice and nostalgic sound. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
This hopeful and cute indie pop/folk music track conveys a lot of heart and wellness. It flows with an arrangement of acoustic and electric guitars, bells, whistles, electric bass, male voices, percussion, brush drum kit and keyboards. This piece also well complements themes of outdoors, travel, youth, falling in love and following one's heart. Optimistic / Upbeat / Tender Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 95 BPM]
Atmospheric and Epic Chill-out / Progressive Ambient, with beautiful melancholic sound textures driven by a march like drum groove. Uplifting and inspirational. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
This solo piano track evokes a warm, peaceful, home-like feeling. Nice for candlelit dinners, romance, sweet children's stories and more. [Tempo: Slow / 98 BPM]
Acoustic guitar composition, available with or without subtle percussion. Easy-going, relaxing and pastoral. Good for many types of media or background use. Has a sense of the natural world, nature and earth. Nice and easy, moderately positive in a relaxed way. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
This electric piano based, self-reflective music track is slightly melancholy with touches of tender healing and inspiration. It has a vintage feeling conveyed with softly played electric and acoustic guitars, bells, bass, percussion, synth pad, and drums. Great music for body and mind wellness, recreation, relational drama, and intimate themes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 127 BPM]
Slow, ethereal, spacious, beautiful, thoughtful, tranquil, reflective piano track with a sense of discovery & wonder. Introspective, dreamy, evaluating, tense. Sublime, somber, cautious, serene, serious & atmospheric. Would suit dramatic / cinematic / mystery / romantic / documentary / advert type projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 44 BPM]
A peaceful and sentimental piano track tinged with sadness. A heavenly sounding intro combines Harp and piano as the tempo descends to give a feeling of falling into peace, followed by bittersweet Piano chords that ebb and flow with light strings and harp effects. Great for use in daytime TV drama and also spiritual/religious scenes, especially anything heavenly - but equally well suited to triumph, gives a feeling of having overcome or to come through something. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Soft, ambient guitar music. Understated and reflective, with a warm sound. An open aural landscape. Slightly mysterious. Room for thought and reflection. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A soft, mellow and soothing ambient guitar soundscape. Wide open aural landscapes leaves room to breathe. Reflective, melancholic, soft touch. Dreamy and thoughtful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A wide open musical soundscape featuring ambient guitars and textures. Pensive and thoughtful. Introspective. Intimate, but also with a distant feel. Good as an underscore for drama and film. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 86 BPM]
Balancing between drama and comedy, this track conveys anticipation as well as reflection and surprise. Pizzicato strings move the arrangement with the help of acoustic guitar, tremolo strings, piano, marimba, triangle, congas and other light percussion. Great for dramedy and romantic events with a melancholy twist. Excellent for tv/cable production, documentary, travel, personal development types of narratives. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 118 BPM]
A warm and summerly, breezy and easy-going Country / Pop / Light rock track, with a folksy, homey feel. Cozy and friendly. [Tempo: Medium / 142 BPM]
Reflective Piano & Pads. Ambient, thoughtful, graceful. Pretty and sincere. Wonderment. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A light, mysterious and easy track made with percussion, in a style and sound similar to Thomas Newman. Will work well for scenes of the passing of time, or a story developing, progressing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Uplifting and inspirational epic pop/rock track, with a powerful anthemic theme and a current rhythmic arrangement. Think those end of the year videos, awesome people doing awesome stuff and general inspiring stuff. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 116 BPM]
Reflective Piano piece. Touching, Wistful, Graceful, Nostalgic. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A dreamy, warm, heartening and delightful new-classical piece with harp and ambient pads. Beauty, grace, melancholy and tender emotions. Love / Family / Bedtime Music. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
A pensive, pulsating, constant subtle rhythm with light, minimalist orchestral / cinematic arrangement. Questioning, discreet, insightful. Good for drama, courtroom drama, period drama, secrets and unfolding stories. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
A graceful, elegant neo-classical piece for storytelling and emotive content. A sense of movement, progress, motion. Timeless / Classic. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
An uplifting music to set a tone of joy and wonder. Piano provides consistent, rhythmic impetus amidst interludes of synth chords that inspire awe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Soft, melodic, acoustic instrumental fantasy-rock? It's a bit hard to describe this track. It starts softly with piano, strings and acoustic guitars, and later builds to a big sound with soaring guitars and emotional melodies. Slightly retro, inspired by progressive rock groups like Genesis, Yes, Saga, Rush, Barclay James Harvest, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Appealing, fresh and easy-going pop-rock track. Soft-rock based on acoustic guitars, piano and drum kit. Bright, feelgood, uplifting, melodic. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Minimalist piano and synth, emotive and poignant, great for scenes of intense love and oneness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 88 BPM]
Mid-tempo Tango featuring accordeon, piano, bass, pizzicato string section and subtle drums. Tango dancing, retro show, freakshow, novelty. Also circus, musical caravan, fairground and merry-go-round etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Vintage French pop music, reminiscent of the classic "Je t'aime... moi non plus" hit by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. French phrases over a retro rock band and organ. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Mid-tempo, relaxing mood with a bit of sentimental melody outlined by piano and violin. Performed by retro-styled swinging jazz combo could be placed anywhere between 20's and 50's of the twentieth century. This performance is influenced by classical or european "restaurant music" mixed with mainstream american jazz music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
Rootsy and emotional solo acoustic steel string guitar. Great for love, romance, memories, longing, passion, reflection, rural, mother earth, travel, nature and much more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
In the Thomas Newman style, this track contains suggestion of African elements in a light , fresh contemporary urban presentation. Percussion driven, with piano and voices, this is pure underscore, with a consistent texture that will drive picture and is highly editable. A button ending is easily edited into a fade to picture. At home in drama or comedy, it adapts itself to the picture it is placed against, and is extremely versatile. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
An emotional ballad featuring powerful female vocals. A tale of heartbreak and finding closure to come out on the other side with strength and dignity. A great contemporary track with a touch of retro soul ala early 70s Stevie Wonder. Great for tv dramas or romantic movie soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A light ambient track which is hard to pin down. Somewhere between new age, ambient, classical and film-score type background music, this unique track features light piano and a pulsating rhythm. Light, positive, feelgood, and a bit strange. Playful, quaint and modest. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A supremely tasty, classy, lush and delicate classic jazz track. Smooth as velvet, featuring all live instruments and orchestra, and a female vocal towards the end of the track. Classic big band jazz ensemble with orchestra. Stick around to hear the short vocal part around the 3 minute mark - it'll be worth it. [Tempo: Slow / 83 BPM]
This track is recorded with a real live orchestra. Sweeping, exciting and uplifting with big culmination, suggestive of eternal love new beginnings, life success and achievement, or other celebratory moment of glory and accomplishment. Good for epic and love stories, sweeping landscapes or passages of time. Suitable for movie soundtrack, historic documentary, movie trailer and more. Exceptional value real orchestra and piano recording. Multiple edits of various moods and length are available for your convenience. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Excerpt from famous Felix Mendelssohn’s concert overture written for William Shakespeare's play, ” A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Recorded with a live orchestra, conducted and recorded by Yuri Sazonoff. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Cutting edge collides with traditional sounds in this glitchy, dreamlike fusion of styles. Old meets new. Quirky. charming & poignant, it would suit science & technology, green issues, environment and modern drama. Similar in instrumentation and mood to the Dream Valley Music tracks, Speed of Night, Metallic Wasteland and Grace & Harmony. Please note: This track features deliberate digital glitches, odd scratchy sound effects. This is for effect, is done on purpose, and is not an error or problem with the file. A "no glitches" version is also available if you prefer it clean. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Soft, uplifting track full of hope and joy perfect for tv, films, photo slideshows, presentations, heartwarming moments or any project in need of beauty and ambience. Features piano, synth pads, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Take the passion and drama of romantic classical piano and strings, add a hip hop groove and you have the perfect track to spice up your latest drama, movie, documentary, commercial or any project that needs to blend contemporary with classical. [Tempo: Medium / 84 BPM]
Lyric about broken family ties, death of loved ones. Done in surreal style. Nylon string acoustic, electric guitars. Folk rock, despair, sadness, melancholic. Also available as an Instrumental version which is a really nice folk / country / americana track. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
A pop rock track with hints of U2, Coldplay and Kings of Leon, which starts with a sparse and somewhat ambient feel and moves to a more driving and powerful sound. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 117 BPM]
Western / Mexican style ballad. Shoot out at the OK Corrall! Twangy electric, Spanish guitars, church bell. Builds in stages over 3 choruses. [Tempo: Medium / 106 BPM]
Very electronic, slight retro sound like Kraftwerk or other minimalist electronica acts. Mysterious and robotic, a bit industrial. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A sweet and tender solo piano track. Few heartfelt notes, like raindrops on the water. Gentle and light, with a naïve and innocent undertone as well as a melancholic and reflective side. Romantic, loving, peaceful and beautiful piano music. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Romantic, slow and relaxed piano piece. Reflective, peaceful, dreamy, easy, romantic. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
Gentle piano theme. Easy, dreamy, meditative, a hint of nostalgia. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
A thoughtful and introspective piano track with subtle strings in the background. Somewhat melancholic and fragile. Good for drama, thoughtful and poignant presentations and media. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An understated, subtle and somewhat quirky, feel-good electro pop groove. Positive and bright, but in a restrained way. Easy going, care free and relaxed. More 'content' than overly happy. The light and transparent production makes this track suitable for background use and media production. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]