Royalty Free Music & Non-Copyrighted Music by Patrick de Arteaga

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You can download these royalty-free and copyright-free music tracks and use them in your multimedia projects (even commercial), such as games, YouTube videos, apps, etc. You just have to add a link to this website patrickdearteaga.com in the credits of your project or wherever you use my music. If you prefer not to credit, visit the licensing section for more info.

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.
The Biggest Discovery DOWNLOAD	Mystery music to enhance your most enigmatic scenes.
No Place For Straw Cowboys DOWNLOAD	Based on the well-known style of Western movies. Draw!
Battleship DOWNLOAD	Created for your battles and tense scenes. Runaway or let’s fight against danger.
Not Giving Up DOWNLOAD	An epic song in crescendo. It’s not medieval but it is orchestral with some electronic additions.
Intergalactic Odyssey DOWNLOAD	Another futuristic track with a rock style, suitable for battles or arcade games.
Spring Village DOWNLOAD	A Celtic style song, perfect to add life to the Iron Age or medieval times.
Chase At Rush Hour DOWNLOAD	This cinematic style track is ideal for action scenes or playable moments of high adrenaline.
Chiptronical DOWNLOAD	Chiptune and electronic music were mixed to make this rhythmic tune.
Lyonesse DOWNLOAD	Relaxed and cheerful, inspired by a mythological place called Lyonesse.
Solve The Puzzle DOWNLOAD	Calm and gently rhythmic. Made for those moments to think of solving riddles.
Luchando En El Peligro 2.0 DOWNLOAD	After a mixture of folk and modern, this theme emerged 10 years ago. Now remixed.
Friends DOWNLOAD	Happy and light royalty free corporate music. Good feeling for your videos.
Game Over DOWNLOAD	This retro music style is what a 8-bit video game needs. Ideal for hopeless moments.
Interstellar Odyssey DOWNLOAD	Perfect for arcade and futuristic games. Electronic music always works with Sci-Fi genre.
I Miss You DOWNLOAD	If you need something emotional, sad or bittersweet, don’t look any further.
Electronic Fantasy DOWNLOAD	Very rhythmical arcade theme. Nice for platform and adventure games.
Shinrin-Yoku DOWNLOAD	With totally traditional instruments, this Japanese song is ideal for your oriental projects.
Mall DOWNLOAD	A cheerful and rhythmic song to add to a happy town. Flutes and saxs sounding for a feteday.
Karibu Watu Wangu DOWNLOAD	Music was born with percussion, and in Africa, they master it with excellence.
Goliath’s Foe DOWNLOAD	One of my most epic themes. This orchestral piece is useful for fantastic and medieval games.
Kiss And Goodbye DOWNLOAD	A piano solo song, emotional and charming. Suitable for bittersweet moments.
Interplanetary Odyssey DOWNLOAD	Just imagine sailing through the outer space and fighting with angry UFOs and aliens.
Resilience DOWNLOAD	Hopeful and inspirational song with nice cello and violins. I think it’s epic.
1st Sonata – Snowy Stars DOWNLOAD	The result of a classical piano attempt when I was younger. Don’t you think it sounds interesting?
2nd Sonata – Malign Chords DOWNLOAD	Spooky notes played on an old piano. Perfect to express a paranormal situation.
Abuse In The Orphanage DOWNLOAD	Inspired by terrifying stories. A music box can sound very creepy.
Acción (Merodeador Nocturno) DOWNLOAD	Useful theme for intense battles, with strong percussion and some hopeful chords.
Anguish DOWNLOAD	Best stories usually have sad moments caused by tragedies. Violins and cellos are perfect for this.
Arex’s Beat DOWNLOAD	Hip-Hop beat, a modern style with electric guitars, rhythmic and maybe funny.
Assassin DOWNLOAD	Tell horror stories about mad characters. Instill fear and darkness among your viewers.
Batalla por la Libertad DOWNLOAD	Rock style with brass and violins. Add emotion and heroism to your tense clashes.
Beware The Monster DOWNLOAD	With a BPM in crescendo, this song helps to increase the suspense.
Biological Weapon DOWNLOAD	A strong and rhythmic battle theme focused on horror. This can be useful for playing a monster.
Blues DOWNLOAD	Ideal for romantic and cheerful moments, relaxed video games with simple mechanics.
Boss Fight DOWNLOAD	Every game has a difficult challenge. This track is perfect for it.
Center Of The Earth DOWNLOAD	Intriguing dungeons and caves, mystery places with soundscapes and maybe scary atmospheres.
Central City DOWNLOAD	The best thing about chiptune songs is that you can use them in almost any genre.
Common Fight DOWNLOAD	Action royalty free chiptune music. Ideal for clashes and battles.
Dancing Pumpkins DOWNLOAD	I was influenced by typical Halloween waltz when I made it, creepy parties with witches and ghosts.
Dangerous Dungeon DOWNLOAD	This track can set a dark and heroic atmosphere, ideal for dungeons.
Death At My Heels DOWNLOAD	Shuddering chase and intense persecutions with an orchestral style.
Dreaming DOWNLOAD	I think this one could be useful for staging strange dreams, memories, or fantasy places.
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.
El Infausto Ladrón de Joyas B DOWNLOAD	And that unlucky jewel thief had his sad moments, like this simple piano solo theme.
El Postre DOWNLOAD	Emotional song with a guitar and a violin as main instruments. Ideal for sad or tender scenes.
Estimable DOWNLOAD	A small track that works perfectly in pleasant moments.
Fear DOWNLOAD	Here are no harmonic chords, this is pure dissonance for your horror stories.
Flutes for Misha DOWNLOAD	An example of what you can do with various wind instruments each with its own melody.
Forgotten Spaceship DOWNLOAD	Mystery notes, old orchestral strings and ghostly choirs. All this to get a dark atmosphere.
Great Little Challenge DOWNLOAD	Rhythmic song in an electronic music style with a dark tinge.
Guerrero Colosal DOWNLOAD	Not a realistic orchestra but something similar with some epic chords.
Happy Ending DOWNLOAD	It starts with a simple but emotional piano solo melody, and it finishes with a violin and a cello.
Hasta Mi Planeta DOWNLOAD	This is similar to the previous one but with a fantastic feel.
Helplessness in Kowasni DOWNLOAD	Slow but emotional. Combined with strings and piano.
Heroic Intrusion DOWNLOAD	I was inspired by something epic and futuristic. I think it is ideal for fights and adventure games.
Homicida Paradójico DOWNLOAD	Just think about a friendly and mad assassin. Think about it.
Horror Stories DOWNLOAD	The name says it all. Use it in your creepy video games.
Humble Match DOWNLOAD	A rhythmic theme, perhaps for a disco, perhaps for a fight.
Infested City DOWNLOAD	In my mind, a city was infested by zombies. Then, I composed this dark song.
Interpretación de una Fantasía DOWNLOAD	With a harpsichord and a strange measure, this dismal track was born.
Intrusión DOWNLOAD	A daring man entered the dictator’s house to steal something important, for example.
It’s Time To Run DOWNLOAD	The monster is chasing you! Terror theme for spooky stories, maybe? It’s up to you!
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’?
La Verdad DOWNLOAD	Suspense little track, ideal for decisive moments or villain scenes.
Las Dos Fronteras DOWNLOAD	A nylon guitar and an accordion for a peaceful theme. Use it to add life to your quiet villages.
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.
Looking for a new beginning DOWNLOAD	Unusual instruments on an unusual scale. The result is something like post-apocalypthic?
Lord Mavras DOWNLOAD	Unusual rhythm and two pianos. This can only mean one thing: something evil is coming.
Major Loss DOWNLOAD	Sad and emotional theme, special for retro and vintage games, 8-bit style.
Markalo goes to the disco DOWNLOAD	A simple modern theme made to set parties or even futuristic battles.
Meitpower DOWNLOAD	Happy and soft royalty-free music to use in cheerful scenes.
Mimos Menguados DOWNLOAD	It can be happy, and it can be sad. This is one of those bittersweet songs, very helpful.
My Memory Lane DOWNLOAD	Perfect for memories. This song was intended to add an emotive lyric.
Never Surrender DOWNLOAD	Perfect for hopeful moments and revealing scenes. This song can be very emotive.
New Hope DOWNLOAD	I imagine this song playing on a title screen of a fantasy game. Can be?
Ouija A DOWNLOAD	Terror theme with a harpsichord and an oboe. Good combination for paranormal plots.
Ouija B DOWNLOAD	This is like a soundscape, can be used to set nocturnal ambients.
Ouija C DOWNLOAD	This is a slower version of ‘Ouija A’. Ideal for terror games, too.
Point of Clash DOWNLOAD	I played a famous game. Its electronic soundtrack inspired me to make this futuristic piece.
Prórroga de Tiempo A DOWNLOAD	This kind of cinematic music is suitable for tension or danger moments.
Prórroga de Tiempo B DOWNLOAD	With slow orchestral chords, this track may keep the suspense in a tense scene.
Prórroga de Tiempo C DOWNLOAD	Strings, flutes and a bass with a soft percussion. This song sounds hopeful.
Rey de Picas DOWNLOAD	Suitable for hard fights, this boss theme emerged from the darkest corners of my imagination.
Ruined Planet DOWNLOAD	Like a post-apocalyptic dungeon, this track can serve as an atmosphere for ghostly places.
Ship DOWNLOAD	Happy and bouncy music, ideal for mini-games or retro style projects.
Stranger DOWNLOAD	Simple but rare. I composed this when I was a child and I think I can’t make anything alike now.
Su Turno DOWNLOAD	Funny and happy royalty free music, ideal for comical situations.
The Ninth Crewman DOWNLOAD	Inspired by a famous sci-fi movie, this terror track can be used as a terrifying soundscape.
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.
The True Story of Beelzebub DOWNLOAD	An epic orchestrated small song, perfect for fantastic and medieval games.
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.
TS – Beat Y DOWNLOAD	A mix of mystery and the Hip-Hop genre. It can be used for dark scenes.
Typical Lullaby DOWNLOAD	As every horror story, your horror game must have a song for the memories of some character.
Vals de su jardín A DOWNLOAD	Cheerful fantasy theme to the rhythm of a waltz. Ideal for good mood games.
Vals de su jardín B DOWNLOAD	This version can be more nostalgic with its music box. Perfect bittersweet theme.
Vals de su jardín C DOWNLOAD	A slower and longer version played by a piano solo. Emotional, hopeful and cheerful.
Voices From Heaven DOWNLOAD	This kind of chill out music with celestial choirs can be helpful for godlike moments.
Voices From Earth DOWNLOAD	If your game is about fantasy in a medieval world, this can help you. Ideal for sad moments.
Yellow Forest DOWNLOAD	Mystical, soft and bouncy song. Where can you use it? You know better than me.

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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