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 tempo music track that invites us to connect with our inner self. Ideal stock music for yoga, relaxation and reflection. Soft piano, acoustic guitar, and soft synth pads. Mindfulness / Work Focus / Study Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 40 BPM]
A pretty and fragile piano composition. Innocence / reflection / love music. Mid section available with or without soft string pads. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A wistful and longing, but also heartening and hopeful tune, with strings and a flute melody. Melancholic, warm, touching music track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
A reflective, melancholic and somehow soothing Ambient Piano track, with echoey, eerie vocal textures. Created by sampling a live singer and processing the samples through various reverse and layering techniques. The piano is an old, upright piano, for a nice and nostalgic sound. Reflection / Melancholy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A cute and sincere tune lead by music box bell melodies, over a mellow pop rock music track featuring Drums, Bass, Guitar, Kalimba. Organ and Horns add in the final chorus for an epic energetic ending. Complete with a modern sounding bridge electronic effects with great risers for transitions. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
A beautiful ambient underscore music track with emotive moments and uplifting releases. Rich, deep pads, ambient strings and choir, flush on the space with a very thoughtful, ethereal vibe. A repetitive piano motif provides the melody and creates movement throughout the track, with a sense of journey and progress. The Underscore Version omits the piano melody and is a very ethereal, floating, caressing track in itself, with soothing and relaxing washes of soft chords. Ethereal / Drama / Meditative Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 76 BPM]
Positive, emotional indietronica music track with a progressive and soft drum groove, wordless vocal theme with vocoder, guitar arpeggio and synth beds. The track evolves to a melancholic soft bridge, then back to the main theme and rise up to outro. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 68 BPM]
Solo piano piece by Tchaikovsky, music arranged and performed by D Lukyanov. Loving, gentle, caring, kind music track. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A beautiful version of Bach's Prelude No. 1 for grand piano. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A melancholy piece with piano, strings, choir and synth textures. Evokes a feeling of acceptance and reflection. [Tempo: Slow / 71 BPM]
A tender and emotional solo piano piece, suitable for drama, romance and storytelling, perhaps dearly held memories, reflection, loss or bittersweet love stories. Hopeful, reflective and sentimental. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Tense / Bustling / Active / Urgent / Mystical / Pulsating Music. Small orchestra soundtrack piece, featuring live performed orchestral instruments, suitable as music for film and other media. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Beautiful, spacious, ethereal, dreamy, ambient track using soft plucked strings, piano, synthesiser & cellos. Touching, calm, mellow, emotive, moving & heartwrending & hopeful. Sensitive, hypnotic, sensual, atmospheric & magical. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 121 BPM]
Emotional and dreamy cinematic music track. Beautiful melodies performed on piano, atmospheric pads, xylophone, glockenspiel, harp, and ethnic percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 63 BPM]
Melancholy, moody, and haunting. This track would work great as a character theme. There are ominous undertones when the bass beats come in. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Emotional and melancholy piano with slow moving, close strings, creating a sad and thoughtful mood. Very minimal sound overall that's warm and tender, yet sad, pensive and reflective. [Tempo: Very slow / 59 BPM]
A heartbreaking theme of loss and searching for meaning. The dramatic orchestral crescendo at 1:00 marks the dawn of a new day and a rising of hope. Drama / Melancholy / Reflective Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A brooding and dark feeling soundtrack with an emotive undertone. Features violon, cello and piano, and has a distant Asian influence. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
A slightly melancholic music track based on a repetitive piano melody. Arena Vocal Chants. Dreamy / Hazy / Nostalgic music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A soft, contemplative, dreamy piano track. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A track of sparse piano against a dark keyboard pad - accompanied by a beautiful ribbon mic recording of a real rainstorm from my friend's porch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Atmospheric Thomas Newman-style trailer music drone that slowly builds up to an action climax with cinematic drums and staccato synthstrings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
A light, transparent and neutral, cinematic/orchestral piece with a very slight Eastern or Oriental feel. A sense of time passing, a story developing. Good for underscore / drama / film. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
A light, loving indie-pop song about picturing the future. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 BPM]
An open, transparent musical backdrop with a somewhat mysterious tone. This ambient guitar soundscape can work for many different media productions, including drama, reality show, nature- and underwater footage, crime and investigation, and much more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A strangely alluring musical painting, featuring a repeating ostinato with slight movements into the mysterious or the otherworldly. This piece will work great as a 'musical painting' for anything profound. Wonderment / Amazement Music. A feeling of something unfolding or flowering, developing. [Tempo: Medium / 176 BPM]
Reflective, introspective, contemplating underscore for film, video, drama etc. Dreamy, Evocative, Soul searching. Poignant background music for weaving stories. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
A very moody and mellow jazz-lounge chillout track. Sly, downtempo, skewed, unpolished, almost dark. Cranky rhodes piano and subtle sax licks. Dirty and urban. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Frederic Chopin Fantaisie-impromptu, Op. 66 in C-sharp minor. Classical music performed and recorded exclusively for Lynne Publishing by concert pianist Želimir Panić. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A moody, deep and emotional guitar rock music t composition. Slow, but powerful Emotional, soaring, highly melodic and building in mood and energy as it progresses. Great for outdoor adventures, achievement, overcoming struggles, amazing feats etc. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
Melancholic, piano based soundtrack with strings. A sense of longing, revisiting old times or making a new start. Travelling, passing time, pictures from a life. Good for drama use, opening scenes etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 BPM]
Modern alternative rock track, with emotional male vocals, electronic drums, strings and synth. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Film soundtrack, calm, relaxing and piano driven. Old Acoustic vintage piano. Reflective / Contemplative / Nostalgic music track. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
This is a Pop track with bluesy guitar parts. Mellow and chilled out composition that's great for tv themes, commercials and other projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 68 BPM]
An orchestral / piano based cinematic film score track resembling the soundtrack from Downton Abbey and many other period-, fantasy and adventure productions. Busy and expectant, as if something stirring, an amazing story unraveling. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 152 BPM]
Bollywood / India: A fast, groovy, upbeat, hindi dance number. Energetic, full of life, vigorous, lively, strong, forceful, spirited, feisty, determined, aggressive, go-getting, unwavering. Describes how one should be in life. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
Sad yet uplifting, like a replenishing of the soul, the end of suffering. Voices, strings and ethnic instruments. Great for yoga and meditation. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
This is true romance, the classic way. A beautiful evening at the beach, looking up at the stars. Features a beautiful woodwind and strings melody with lush piano arpeggios. Suitable for a romantic trailer or a special moment in a production. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A soaring, touching and emotional orchestral / film score type track. Full orchestra, growing to a crescendo / climax at 1 minute. Heartening, touching, emotional. Good for drama, personal stories, history and culture, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 55 BPM]
This ambient music track is ethereal, flowing and contemporary sounding. It can convey a rich spectrum of cinematic emotion. Its arrangement is a slow swirl of transmuting analog pads, space echo, and FX, serves as an excellent background music bed for scenes with introspective qualities, like dramas, narration, self-help topics and as a canvas for flyover B-roll. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 112 BPM]
Underscore cue for drama or personal stories. Tender, thoughtful, reflective, intimate. Contemplation, perhaps memories, decision making. Has a wistful side, perhaps a missing piece or searching for hope. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 110 BPM]
A beautiful solo piano arrangement of Schubert's famous Ave Maria. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Frederic Chopin Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1. Classical music performed and recorded exclusively for Lynne Publishing by K. Funaric. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Simple, emotive and nostalgic music made with piano. The main vibe is towards emotional and sad. Emotional / Reflective / Nostalgic Music. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A lush, introspective piano track. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
Easy, gentle and relaxing, nostalgic msuic track made with orchestra and warm piano. Tender / Soft / Warm Music. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Frederic Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 24 No. 1: Lento in G minor. Classical music performed and recorded exclusively for Lynne Publishing by concert pianist Želimir Panić. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Positive yet with substance, this pop/rock track has a big and appealing sound with a driving feel and a sense of momentum. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Orchestral, cinematic, background music for drama and storytelling. Contemplative, questioning and mysterious. Thoughtful and introspective. Great music for a mystery drama, fantasy, crime drama, searching and contemplation. A brooding and intriguing story evolves. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
A dreamy and ethereal, cinematic music royalty free music track. Mysterious melodies performed on piano, strings, ethnic percussion, electronic drum beats and atmospheric pads. Elegant, timeless music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
