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 peaceful, timeless and elegant, cinematic music track featuring simplicity and light colors of strings, and piano. Suitable for heartwarming, bright, uplifting productions. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A very inspirational and uplifting music . A slow, swaying rhythm carries an irresistible piano melody of Wonderment and Amazement. Heartening / Soaring / Heroic / Graceful music track. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This track was recorded with a real live orchestra. A strong thematic backdrop to a sweeping historical or emotional journey. Emotive themes unfold within this rich orchestration, punctuated by moments of intimacy. Suggestive of the passage of time, and the traversing of distance. Good for romance, historical drama, dramatic feature, epic scenes and large landscapes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Johann Sebastian Bach - Two and Three-Part Inventions, Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782, moderato. Solo piano. Music performed and recorded exclusively for Lynne Publishing by Abigail Mettry. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A very emotional, inspirational, cinematic music, starting with kalimba and piano. Rising into a big orchestral track with wide brass melody. Amazement / Wonderment / Greatness music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A heartening, sincere and touching piece of filmic / cinematic pop / orchestral music based on piano and strings. Uplifting / Heartwarming / Hopeful / Touching / Inspirational. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A cinematic music featuring an inspiring and epic mood. Impressive, big symphonic sound, with orchestra and large piano. Touching / Wonderment / Amazement / Heroic music track. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A reflective, melancholic and heartening, uplifting track featuring a combination of classical instrumentation and subtle synth pulse. Spiritual, touching, heartwarming and emotional. Both subtle and grand. Graceful. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
A tasteful, delicate and graceful track with a light orchestra arrangement combined with piano. Melodic and flowing. Inspirational, hopeful and uplifting. Classical / Melodic theme. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Spacious, minimalist, hypnotic arpeggios, emotional, bell melody. Ideal for documentaries, emotional storytelling, or introspective vlogs. Documentary Score / Minimalist Sound. Warm / Thoughtful / Heartening. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Light orchestra, neo classical music for piano, strings and woodwinds. Melodic, gently flowing, and hopeful. Pastoral / Natural / Uplifting / Spring / Hope. Inspiring and beautiful music for cinema, film, tv or other media. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 97 BPM]
A very soft, tender, delicate and flowing piece of neo-classical, light orchestra music. Smooth / Comforting / Caring / Warm / Lovely / Soft / Blissful. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
This track starts off with gentle guitar harmonics, then rises into a big, epic journey, featuring big orchestra, percussions, and simple but powerful melody. Touching / Soaring / Hopeful / Wonder Music. [Tempo: Slow / 90 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]
Existing in a hinterland between music & sound design, these brooding washes of distant sound slither and twist with a deep, tormented anguish. The atonal sound beds come in a variety of versions and underscores that can be mixed, matched and interlinked to form a protracted backdrop of compelling moods. Matched in style with the Dream Valley Music titles, The Deep Dark, Mass Limit and Bloom. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
Solemn and reflective background music for drama, storytelling, visuals. Ambient and contemplative. Perhaps memories, or contemplating the future. Also highly suitable for slow-motion footage, scenes of amazing nature. Emotional, deep, thoughtful and introspective. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 101 BPM]
Epic cinematic action music, perfect for movie trailers, book trailers, drama and cinematic action. Dramatic and evolving orchestral composition, featuring full orchestra with beautiful string melodies, epic risers, distorted guitars & rock drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 88 BPM]
An expansive, cinematic electronic track with a heart-rending quality and an inspiring and emotional lead synth. Atmospheric / Inspirational / Nostalgic. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Calm and gentle with an introspective nature but changes moods in the middle and turns slightly darker. An understated piece with depth and reflection. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
Music with a hurried, urgent, active and bustling feel. Rush, chase, stress, high activity level. Time running out, things being done in a hurry. Neo-classical music, orchestra with piano. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 136 BPM]
A very earthy and welcoming track, full of hope and optimism - but in a laidback, easy-going way. Acoustic guitars and piano are joined later by a subtle beat that still has a good sense of momentum and forward drive, almost reminescent of the music of U2. Available with or without the marching snares. Very inspiring, hopeful, uplifting and good as music for stories about real people, hopes and dreams. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 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 building and inspirational, uplifting and heroic cinematic piece that goes from gentle, into a crescendo, a climax, and a revisit back to the gentle part as an epilogue. Light orchestral arrangement with heroic drums that join in later, give the track a very uplifting and inspirational feel. Regal, proud and stately - with a timeless orchestral sound. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 175 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]
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]
A slow, mournful piano music track. Fragile / Touching Music. [Tempo: Very slow / 58 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]
Positive piano theme with a majestic and inspiring orchestral feel. Feelgood / Successful / Motivational music track. [Tempo: Medium / 126 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]
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]
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]
A very warm, delicate, graceful and soothing jazz ballad. Melancholic / Soothing / Nostalgic / Loving Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 82 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]
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]
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]
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]
An ambient, electric guitar music piece. Dreamy, contemplative, reflective. Flowing / Ethereal / Warm / Relaxing music. [Tempo: Slow / 78 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 tasteful, pretty and transparent track featuring piano and a small string ensemble. Neo classical. Light, hopeful, positive and heartening. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A touching and tender, mellow, warm and innocent piece with piano and subtle strings. Reflection, heartening and caring. [Tempo: Slow / 127 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
An inspirational, emotional and thoughtful track with classical music elements. Cinematic and riveting, this track will stir up emotions, inspiration, hopes and dreams. Chamber music production, with big percussion joining in later, but not too overpowering. Epic / Inspiring / Regal / Elegant. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 150 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 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]
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]
