To be sad is an emotion contrary to joy and happiness. It can be experienced under normal conditions, during everyday life, or because of a particularly dramatic event, such as a loss, bereavement or disappearance.
It is one of the "six fundamental emotions" described by P. Ekman, along with happiness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.
The moment of sadness represents the encounter between desire and its own limits. It is not the outside that somehow delimits desire, but these limits are constitutive of desire itself. Accepting one's own limitation helps in some way to overcome sadness.
This feeling is especially felt by artists, who continually try to overcome themselves. Many painters, poets, musicians have produced their best works in moments of great sadness and melancholy.
Sadness is a physiological feeling if it is limited to limited occasions. If this situation persists for long periods of time, we speak of depression.
Sadness is not directly related to depression, it can be understood as the beginning of a physical and mental evil such as depression, so it should not be underestimated. Sadness can also be brought about by dissatisfaction or by not having made or carried out significant choices and decisions in one's life.
In the playlist below you will find music tracks from our music catalogue for royalty-free Production Music or Stock Music with the keyword "sad", which can be licensed directly online via the Proud Music Library as background music for commercials, ads on TV, In-Stream-ads or movie and radio spots. It is also possible to download mp3 files in reduced quality for free to present them internally. Use is only permitted after the purchase of a license. If you have any questions regarding licensing, please contact us by phone at ++49 (0)6132 43 088 30 or by email at support@proudmusiclibrary.com.
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A tender and emotional, warm and wistful piano on a bed of very subtle strings. Romantic, nostalgic, longing, true. Eternal love. Priceless moments, dearly held memories. An alternative version with only the piano itself (no strings) is also available.
A light acoustic guitar track, romantic and sweet. Perhaps slightly nostalgic or wistful. A mellotron string section enters and later also a bell melody. An underscore version is also available without the bell melody. This is a gentle and easy flowing instrumental track, hopeful, tender and romantic like never ending love.
Medieval instruments play this melancholic piece of music together with a string quartett.
A slowly moving hybrid Pop Tango track with a contemporary sonic experience. The main theme is very catchy and becomes a real ear worm. This song suits a lot of different projects! A reduced version without melody for talkover/underscore purposes is also included.
Beautiful piano fantasies, accompanied by gently understated strings. Best of Love Songs.
A slow, dark and brooding live chamber orchestra piece that evokes a sad and tragic atmosphere suitable for serious and solemn subject matter. With low ominous strings, melancholy woodwinds, somber brass and hauntingly expressive violin melodies.
Troubled, Apprehensive, Western
A beautiful and melancholic ambient piano track. A simple, nostalgic piano melody played with grace, finely balanced on top of a strange ambient background texture. Excellent for drama, film soundtrack work, or any sincere, thought provoking web site or film footage.
A beautiful and melancholic ambient piano track. A simple, nostalgic piano melody played with grace, finely balanced on top of a strange ambient background texture. Excellent for drama, film soundtrack work, or any sincere, thought provoking web site or film footage.
This powerful and inspiring epic cinematic soundtrack evokes feelings of honor, courage and heroism. Features a majestic orchestral theme with an underlying bittersweet commemorative tone. With regal brass, lush strings, harp, piano, drums and percussion.
Film scores: World Mystery / Ethnic
Sweet, contemplative solo piano theme. Reflective and gentle, loving and slightly mistful. Thoughtful, drama eternal love, friendship. Mellow.
A solo classical guitar plays a hauntingly expressive melody accompanied by lush tremolo strings in this Spanish inspired soundtrack. Passionate, dramatic and nostalgic underscore that is and good for historical documentaries, epic love stories and more.
Godfather inspired haunting melody evoking a sad and nostalgic, poignant mood. Played on trumpet accompanied by acoustic guitar in waltz time with accordion interweaving a counter-melody. Perfect fit for Italo-American themed productions and more.
Sweet, contemplative solo piano theme. Reflective and gentle, loving and slightly mistful. Thoughtful, drama eternal love, friendship. Mellow.
A slow, brooding and atmospheric cinematic underscore that is perfect for implying a mysterious subtext for a scene. A hypnotic harp pattern, high solitary piano notes washed in echo and low ominous strings set the mood for this somber soundtrack.
Godfather inspired haunting melody evoking a sad and nostalgic, poignant mood. Played on trumpet accompanied by acoustic guitar in waltz time with accordion interweaving a counter-melody. Perfect fit for Italo-American themed productions and more.
Muted, Plaintive, Soft
A very warm and appealing track. Hard to pin down, with elements of ambient, pop, new-age and urban. Repeating patterns of guitar and electric piano create a dreamlike, textured sonic image. Great for use with visual media, carries a lot of emotion and reflection. A sort of kaleidoscope of sound and music. Thoughtful, unique and interesting. This track is available in many different versions, with or without the high guitar notes, and with or without the drums.