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 poignant, rising, positive and emotional royalty free track featuring string orchestra, cellos, piano and synth bass. With an inspirational, motivating and optimistic mood, this track is somewhat epic, but still also mellow and romantic. Suitable for emotional, passionate and uplifting footage, thoughtful and passionate content, human relations, overcoming difficulties and coming home. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
An organic acoustic guitar and organ vibe with harmonica. Ambient, Americana music feel. Dark, mysterious, longing music. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Drawing on pop, R&B, chill, lounge, hip-hop and jazz, this slow- to mid-tempo track has a rich atmosphere and a lush sound texture of guitars, bass, electric piano, smooth pads and occasional jazz trumpet. Tasteful and slick; suitable for many types of media, from corporate to drama. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 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]
A very inspirational, yet understated and subtle music with an uplifting, gentle flow. Light rock influenced guitar pick combines with orchestral textures. Very poignant, uplifting and triumphant. Patriotic, even, with grace, dignity and elegance. [Tempo: Slow / 83 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Positive piano theme with a majestic and inspiring orchestral feel. Feelgood / Successful / Motivational music track. [Tempo: Medium / 126 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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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 tender, mellow, warm and innocent piece with piano and subtle strings. Reflection, heartening and caring. [Tempo: Slow / 127 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]
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]
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]
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]
Evolving and organic, this cinematic track can stir sentiment, hope and dualistic feelings between dark and light. Piano and bells tickle a melodic motif over this track’s shifting reed organ-like pad, effects, kick drum and drones. It’s great for media/scenes with introspective, emotional and dramatic qualities. Evolving / Sentimental / Intricate. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 138 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]
A tasteful, pretty and transparent track featuring piano and a small string ensemble. Neo classical. Light, hopeful, positive and heartening. [Tempo: Medium / 90 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]
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 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 warm, delicate, graceful and soothing jazz ballad. Melancholic / Soothing / Nostalgic / Loving Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 82 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]
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]
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]
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 lush and smooth Ambient Pop music track with an uplifting and blissful feel. Cinematic, epic, graceful music. [Tempo: Slow / 60 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]
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]
An ambient, electric guitar music piece. Dreamy, contemplative, reflective. Flowing / Ethereal / Warm / Relaxing music. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A slow, mournful piano music track. Fragile / Touching Music. [Tempo: Very slow / 58 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]
A poignant and touching music track, featuring an ambient, cinematic mood, a simple melody and mellow sound of intimate string orchestra. Mellow, heartening, touching music. [Tempo: Slow / 140 BPM]
Intimate and heartening, cinematic ambient pop music, semi-orchestral, neo-classical. For film, video, stories and storytelling. Close / Warm / Caring. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A cinematic underscore track that starts with feelings of longing and curiosity cushioned with memories from the past, memories of hope. The mood moves from searching to interest to joy. Featured instruments are warm piano, mellow pads, emotional cello with percussion effects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A positive, soaring and uplifting orchestral music track with a winter holiday feel. An uplifting emotional theme is reinforced with a beautiful glockenspiel bell and piano melody surrounded by a large string ensemble orchestration. Piano melodies and background elements bring a cinematic and film score quality to this music piece. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
An emotional and contemplative piano & strings composition, full of intrigue, passion and mystery. Serious music / New classical. Artful, Empassioned, Deep insight, Turmoil, Mixed feelings. [Tempo: Medium / 150 BPM]
Many layers of growing swells that rise and fall like waves of colourful sounds. Matched in style with the Dream Valley Music titles, The Deep Dark, Mass Limit and Black Light. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A soft and mellow cinematic music track featuring cello, piano and chamber strings ensemble. Suitable for optimistic, positive, achievement and inspiring scenery. Touching / Delicate / Heartening music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
