sentimental songs
Emotionally moving melodies
Sentimental songs are music designed to evoke tender emotions—nostalgia, longing, lost love, bittersweet memory.
The term often carries a slightly dismissive tone, suggesting the emotions are shallow or manipulative rather than earned: She played sentimental songs from the forties.
Country music and torch songs are classic examples of the genre.
- love balladsSentimental songs about romance
- lullabiesSoothing songs for children
- music boxMechanism playing melodies mechanically
- torch songsEmotional songs about lost love
- broken heartEmotional pain from loss
tearjerker · memory · bittersweet · heart · orchestral arrangements · string section · yearning · tears · crooning · Tin Pan Alley · nostalgia · maudlin · wedding songs · poetic imagery · oldies · comfort · jazz standards · vocal harmonies
- vocal musicvocals, soprano, tenor, alto, baritone
- Americana Musicspirituals, folk ballads, hymn books, Camptown Races, Beautiful Dreamer
- Duetsvocal duets, vocal harmonies, vocal duet, piano duet, violin duet
- Mom SongsMother
- balladsballads, balladry, power ballads, pop ballads, country ballads
- Russian MusicTchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich
sentimental songspump-up songs
Energizing musical selections
fight songs · thrash metal · club bangers · drinking songs · death metal
sentimental songsinstrumental music
Music without vocals
novelty songs · protest songs · work songs · sea shanties · nursery rhymes