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)"
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]
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]
A neo-classical piece with a sense of dignity, history and timeless elegance. Equally suitable as music for current-day affairs and drama, as for historical / period dramas. Great as a main theme for a series or a one-off presentation. Classy and elegant, with a waltz rhythm. Available with or without an opera type, live soprano vocal. [Tempo: Medium / 146 BPM]
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]
Full of hope and reflection. This delicate arrangement of strings, electric guitar, piano and percussion mimics a quiet yet active flowing brook. Excitement and anticipation builds later in the track [Tempo: Medium / 91 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]
Spacious, ethereal, tranquil, beautiful, dreamy, introspective, reflective track using strings, choir & synths. Simple, mellow, atmospheric, contemplative, serious & mysteriously unique. Would suit dramatic / detective / mystery / documentary / travel type projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 66 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]
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]
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]
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]
A developing, unfolding track that starts quietly and builds, builds, builds. A feeling of activity, awakening, springtime. Something stirring, growing, approaching. A great sense of amazement and wonderment. Piano, harp, strings and bells. [Tempo: Medium / 168 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]
Semi-orchestral, neo classical track with a sense of expectation, something stirring, something coming this way. A very cinematic and inspiring track that gives the listener a sense of something happening, a story unfolding, a new thing arriving. Positive and developing. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Mellow, Dreamy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
A laidback pop / RnB track. Piano and acoustic guitar in this soft and thoughtful piece. [Tempo: Medium / 87 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]
60's / 70's style jazz ballad. Flugelhorn / trumpet over electric piano / rhodes, bass and drums. Dark, moody and smoky. [Tempo: Slow / 72 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]
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]
A time for reflection and truth - gentle, romantic and slightly wistful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
Organic, repetitive, functional music featuring piano, keyboards and bass. Good for TV commercials, infomercials, documentary projects, openings, endings and for background music too. [Tempo: Medium / 103 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]
This track is recorded with a real live orchestra. A fairy-tale romance from long ago and far away. Sweeping melodies carried aloft by a moving rhythmic underlay. Kings and queens and knights on horseback. Flagons raised in anticipation of great events. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 66 BPM]
Pensive and thoughtful, reflective and emotional. Underlying anxiety in the first half builds to large emotional payoff and peaceful introspection at the end. Good for drama, romance, teen romance. This track is recorded with a real live philharmonic orchestra. [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]
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]
A melody of spacious strings & soprano voice quickly descend into darkness & mystery. Fantasy, sci-fi, adventure. Perhaps magic or mysterious intrigues. Amazement, wonderment. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
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]
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]
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]
Reflective Piano & Pads. Ambient, thoughtful, graceful. Pretty and sincere. Wonderment. [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 graceful, elegant neo-classical piece for storytelling and emotive content. A sense of movement, progress, motion. Timeless / Classic. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Piano solo, an elegant waltz with an air of mystery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An intriguing and dreamy royalty free piano track, somewhat mysterious and haunting. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Dreamy, serene music track with subtle guitars, warm piano and light percussion. Hopeful and fragile. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 99 BPM]
