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All downloadable files of this free non-copyrighted music are in Ogg Vorbis format and are completely ready to loop! This is to make easy its playback in video game engines. You can edit them and convert them to any audio format. If you want the original WAV file, you can get it with a Pro License.
| NAME | DESCRIPTION | LISTEN |
|---|---|---|
| Child’s Nightmare DOWNLOAD | Playful and powerful, this tune goes well with platform games. | Audio Player |
| The Biggest Discovery DOWNLOAD | Mystery music to enhance your most enigmatic scenes. | Audio Player |
| No Place For Straw Cowboys DOWNLOAD | Based on the well-known style of Western movies. Draw! | Audio Player |
| Battleship DOWNLOAD | Created for your battles and tense scenes. Runaway or let’s fight against danger. | Audio Player |
| Not Giving Up DOWNLOAD | An epic song in crescendo. It’s not medieval but it is orchestral with some electronic additions. | Audio Player |
| Intergalactic Odyssey DOWNLOAD | Another futuristic track with a rock style, suitable for battles or arcade games. | Audio Player |
| Spring Village DOWNLOAD | A Celtic style song, perfect to add life to the Iron Age or medieval times. | Audio Player |
| Chase At Rush Hour DOWNLOAD | This cinematic style track is ideal for action scenes or playable moments of high adrenaline. | Audio Player |
| Chiptronical DOWNLOAD | Chiptune and electronic music were mixed to make this rhythmic tune. | Audio Player |
| Lyonesse DOWNLOAD | Relaxed and cheerful, inspired by a mythological place called Lyonesse. | Audio Player |
| Solve The Puzzle DOWNLOAD | Calm and gently rhythmic. Made for those moments to think of solving riddles. | Audio Player |
| Luchando En El Peligro 2.0 DOWNLOAD | After a mixture of folk and modern, this theme emerged 10 years ago. Now remixed. | Audio Player |
| Friends DOWNLOAD | Happy and light royalty free corporate music. Good feeling for your videos. | Audio Player |
| Game Over DOWNLOAD | This retro music style is what a 8-bit video game needs. Ideal for hopeless moments. | Audio Player |
| Interstellar Odyssey DOWNLOAD | Perfect for arcade and futuristic games. Electronic music always works with Sci-Fi genre. | Audio Player |
| I Miss You DOWNLOAD | If you need something emotional, sad or bittersweet, don’t look any further. | Audio Player |
| Electronic Fantasy DOWNLOAD | Very rhythmical arcade theme. Nice for platform and adventure games. | Audio Player |
| Shinrin-Yoku DOWNLOAD | With totally traditional instruments, this Japanese song is ideal for your oriental projects. | Audio Player |
| Mall DOWNLOAD | A cheerful and rhythmic song to add to a happy town. Flutes and saxs sounding for a feteday. | Audio Player |
| Karibu Watu Wangu DOWNLOAD | Music was born with percussion, and in Africa, they master it with excellence. | Audio Player |
| Goliath’s Foe DOWNLOAD | One of my most epic themes. This orchestral piece is useful for fantastic and medieval games. | Audio Player |
| Kiss And Goodbye DOWNLOAD | A piano solo song, emotional and charming. Suitable for bittersweet moments. | Audio Player |
| Interplanetary Odyssey DOWNLOAD | Just imagine sailing through the outer space and fighting with angry UFOs and aliens. | Audio Player |
| Resilience DOWNLOAD | Hopeful and inspirational song with nice cello and violins. I think it’s epic. | Audio Player |
| 1st Sonata – Snowy Stars DOWNLOAD | The result of a classical piano attempt when I was younger. Don’t you think it sounds interesting? | Audio Player |
| 2nd Sonata – Malign Chords DOWNLOAD | Spooky notes played on an old piano. Perfect to express a paranormal situation. | Audio Player |
| Abuse In The Orphanage DOWNLOAD | Inspired by terrifying stories. A music box can sound very creepy. | Audio Player |
| Acción (Merodeador Nocturno) DOWNLOAD | Useful theme for intense battles, with strong percussion and some hopeful chords. | Audio Player |
| Anguish DOWNLOAD | Best stories usually have sad moments caused by tragedies. Violins and cellos are perfect for this. | Audio Player |
| Arex’s Beat DOWNLOAD | Hip-Hop beat, a modern style with electric guitars, rhythmic and maybe funny. | Audio Player |
| Assassin DOWNLOAD | Tell horror stories about mad characters. Instill fear and darkness among your viewers. | Audio Player |
| Batalla por la Libertad DOWNLOAD | Rock style with brass and violins. Add emotion and heroism to your tense clashes. | Audio Player |
| Beware The Monster DOWNLOAD | With a BPM in crescendo, this song helps to increase the suspense. | Audio Player |
| Biological Weapon DOWNLOAD | A strong and rhythmic battle theme focused on horror. This can be useful for playing a monster. | Audio Player |
| Blues DOWNLOAD | Ideal for romantic and cheerful moments, relaxed video games with simple mechanics. | Audio Player |
| Boss Fight DOWNLOAD | Every game has a difficult challenge. This track is perfect for it. | Audio Player |
| Center Of The Earth DOWNLOAD | Intriguing dungeons and caves, mystery places with soundscapes and maybe scary atmospheres. | Audio Player |
| Central City DOWNLOAD | The best thing about chiptune songs is that you can use them in almost any genre. | Audio Player |
| Common Fight DOWNLOAD | Action royalty free chiptune music. Ideal for clashes and battles. | Audio Player |
| Dancing Pumpkins DOWNLOAD | I was influenced by typical Halloween waltz when I made it, creepy parties with witches and ghosts. | Audio Player |
| Dangerous Dungeon DOWNLOAD | This track can set a dark and heroic atmosphere, ideal for dungeons. | Audio Player |
| Death At My Heels DOWNLOAD | Shuddering chase and intense persecutions with an orchestral style. | Audio Player |
| Dreaming DOWNLOAD | I think this one could be useful for staging strange dreams, memories, or fantasy places. | Audio Player |
| El Infausto Ladrón de Joyas A DOWNLOAD | Time ago I was inspired by a story in which a jewel thief never managed to steal anything. | Audio Player |
| El Infausto Ladrón de Joyas B DOWNLOAD | And that unlucky jewel thief had his sad moments, like this simple piano solo theme. | Audio Player |
| El Postre DOWNLOAD | Emotional song with a guitar and a violin as main instruments. Ideal for sad or tender scenes. | Audio Player |
| Estimable DOWNLOAD | A small track that works perfectly in pleasant moments. | Audio Player |
| Fear DOWNLOAD | Here are no harmonic chords, this is pure dissonance for your horror stories. | Audio Player |
| Flutes for Misha DOWNLOAD | An example of what you can do with various wind instruments each with its own melody. | Audio Player |
| Forgotten Spaceship DOWNLOAD | Mystery notes, old orchestral strings and ghostly choirs. All this to get a dark atmosphere. | Audio Player |
| Great Little Challenge DOWNLOAD | Rhythmic song in an electronic music style with a dark tinge. | Audio Player |
| Guerrero Colosal DOWNLOAD | Not a realistic orchestra but something similar with some epic chords. | Audio Player |
| Happy Ending DOWNLOAD | It starts with a simple but emotional piano solo melody, and it finishes with a violin and a cello. | Audio Player |
| Hasta Mi Planeta DOWNLOAD | This is similar to the previous one but with a fantastic feel. | Audio Player |
| Helplessness in Kowasni DOWNLOAD | Slow but emotional. Combined with strings and piano. | Audio Player |
| Heroic Intrusion DOWNLOAD | I was inspired by something epic and futuristic. I think it is ideal for fights and adventure games. | Audio Player |
| Homicida Paradójico DOWNLOAD | Just think about a friendly and mad assassin. Think about it. | Audio Player |
| Horror Stories DOWNLOAD | The name says it all. Use it in your creepy video games. | Audio Player |
| Humble Match DOWNLOAD | A rhythmic theme, perhaps for a disco, perhaps for a fight. | Audio Player |
| Infested City DOWNLOAD | In my mind, a city was infested by zombies. Then, I composed this dark song. | Audio Player |
| Interpretación de una Fantasía DOWNLOAD | With a harpsichord and a strange measure, this dismal track was born. | Audio Player |
| Intrusión DOWNLOAD | A daring man entered the dictator’s house to steal something important, for example. | Audio Player |
| It’s Time To Run DOWNLOAD | The monster is chasing you! Terror theme for spooky stories, maybe? It’s up to you! | Audio Player |
| La Llamada de Ile DOWNLOAD | A sad man who fell in love with a sweet woman. Then she calls him to say ‘I love you too’? | Audio Player |
| La Verdad DOWNLOAD | Suspense little track, ideal for decisive moments or villain scenes. | Audio Player |
| Las Dos Fronteras DOWNLOAD | A nylon guitar and an accordion for a peaceful theme. Use it to add life to your quiet villages. | Audio Player |
| Let’s Play With The Demon DOWNLOAD | Some people have said that this is the loudest song they’ve heard. I’ll take it as a compliment. | Audio Player |
| Looking for a new beginning DOWNLOAD | Unusual instruments on an unusual scale. The result is something like post-apocalypthic? | Audio Player |
| Lord Mavras DOWNLOAD | Unusual rhythm and two pianos. This can only mean one thing: something evil is coming. | Audio Player |
| Major Loss DOWNLOAD | Sad and emotional theme, special for retro and vintage games, 8-bit style. | Audio Player |
| Markalo goes to the disco DOWNLOAD | A simple modern theme made to set parties or even futuristic battles. | Audio Player |
| Meitpower DOWNLOAD | Happy and soft royalty-free music to use in cheerful scenes. | Audio Player |
| Mimos Menguados DOWNLOAD | It can be happy, and it can be sad. This is one of those bittersweet songs, very helpful. | Audio Player |
| My Memory Lane DOWNLOAD | Perfect for memories. This song was intended to add an emotive lyric. | Audio Player |
| Never Surrender DOWNLOAD | Perfect for hopeful moments and revealing scenes. This song can be very emotive. | Audio Player |
| New Hope DOWNLOAD | I imagine this song playing on a title screen of a fantasy game. Can be? | Audio Player |
| Ouija A DOWNLOAD | Terror theme with a harpsichord and an oboe. Good combination for paranormal plots. | Audio Player |
| Ouija B DOWNLOAD | This is like a soundscape, can be used to set nocturnal ambients. | Audio Player |
| Ouija C DOWNLOAD | This is a slower version of ‘Ouija A’. Ideal for terror games, too. | Audio Player |
| Point of Clash DOWNLOAD | I played a famous game. Its electronic soundtrack inspired me to make this futuristic piece. | Audio Player |
| Prórroga de Tiempo A DOWNLOAD | This kind of cinematic music is suitable for tension or danger moments. | Audio Player |
| Prórroga de Tiempo B DOWNLOAD | With slow orchestral chords, this track may keep the suspense in a tense scene. | Audio Player |
| Prórroga de Tiempo C DOWNLOAD | Strings, flutes and a bass with a soft percussion. This song sounds hopeful. | Audio Player |
| Rey de Picas DOWNLOAD | Suitable for hard fights, this boss theme emerged from the darkest corners of my imagination. | Audio Player |
| Ruined Planet DOWNLOAD | Like a post-apocalyptic dungeon, this track can serve as an atmosphere for ghostly places. | Audio Player |
| Ship DOWNLOAD | Happy and bouncy music, ideal for mini-games or retro style projects. | Audio Player |
| Stranger DOWNLOAD | Simple but rare. I composed this when I was a child and I think I can’t make anything alike now. | Audio Player |
| Su Turno DOWNLOAD | Funny and happy royalty free music, ideal for comical situations. | Audio Player |
| The Ninth Crewman DOWNLOAD | Inspired by a famous sci-fi movie, this terror track can be used as a terrifying soundscape. | Audio Player |
| The Three Princesses of Lilac Meadow DOWNLOAD | Don’t ask me about the name, someone was watching a fairy tale on TV when I baptized it. | Audio Player |
| The True Story of Beelzebub DOWNLOAD | An epic orchestrated small song, perfect for fantastic and medieval games. | Audio Player |
| They Are Already Here DOWNLOAD | If you are abducted by aliens, you will listen to music inside their UFO, and it’ll sound like this. | Audio Player |
| TS – Beat Y DOWNLOAD | A mix of mystery and the Hip-Hop genre. It can be used for dark scenes. | Audio Player |
| Typical Lullaby DOWNLOAD | As every horror story, your horror game must have a song for the memories of some character. | Audio Player |
| Vals de su jardín A DOWNLOAD | Cheerful fantasy theme to the rhythm of a waltz. Ideal for good mood games. | Audio Player |
| Vals de su jardín B DOWNLOAD | This version can be more nostalgic with its music box. Perfect bittersweet theme. | Audio Player |
| Vals de su jardín C DOWNLOAD | A slower and longer version played by a piano solo. Emotional, hopeful and cheerful. | Audio Player |
| Voices From Heaven DOWNLOAD | This kind of chill out music with celestial choirs can be helpful for godlike moments. | Audio Player |
| Voices From Earth DOWNLOAD | If your game is about fantasy in a medieval world, this can help you. Ideal for sad moments. | Audio Player |
| Yellow Forest DOWNLOAD | Mystical, soft and bouncy song. Where can you use it? You know better than me. | Audio Player |
Creative Commons Music
These musical works are published under a Creative Commons license that allows their distribution and modification, even commercially (as long as they are part of another audiovisual project), provided that you grant the appropriate credit by sharing a link to this website or mentioning the name of the author: Patrick de Arteaga.
The term “non-copyrighted music” used on this website refers to the fact that the musical works displayed here do not retain all rights reserved. However, works with Creative Commons licenses are, in effect, protected by national laws and international copyright agreements.
What does non-copyrighted music mean?
The fact that certain music is not copyrighted means that the author gives up all or part of the exploitation rights.
In this case, the music that you find in this section is registered under a Creative Commons license, which implies that rights of commercial exploitation, transformation, and redistribution are transferred to the user (as long as it is used as part of other audiovisual projects), but not of attribution, that is, the original authorship have to be cited in any case.
So, you are free to download the non-copyrighted music from this website and use it freely in your audiovisual projects as long as you give proper credit.
Is royalty-free music the same?
People often confuse the term of non copyrighted music with the term of royalty free music, then when i.e. they need free music for a video and look for royalty free music for YouTube, they will find that it is usually paid music.
But in the case of the audio material in this section, you don’t have to worry, since my music tracks here are both terms (royalty-free and copyright-free). You are free to download all this royalty-free music.
Creative Commons music is the most common way to encourage this. Visit the licensing section if you have any doubts.
Why is this instrumental background music royalty-free?
The non-copyrighted music tracks that you see in this section have involved effort, time and some economic investment to pay for the tools that enable its creation. There are more free background music on the Internet but each stock music library may have restriction conditions.
And you may think: why do you offer these music tracks for free? The fact that this instrumental music is included in video games, YouTube videos or anywhere on the Internet, besides being a personal satisfaction, is also a way for me to become recognized.
Therefore, using this free royalty-free music you will be supporting me. So, feel free to choose any of these tracks to add life to your projects musically. This is high quality stock music, take advantage! If you want to know the music production software that I use to compose, it is currently Reason Studios.
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This is the place you are looking for, a website with a wide list of royalty-free music to use for free on your YouTube videos. All my music above is Creative Commons and you only have to give credit when using it in your videos, no matter if they are commercial.
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