Courtyard Autumn Sigh — free background music
20.0s · WAV & MP3 · instrumental · 0 downloads · quality 8.5/10 · royalty-free, CC BY 4.0
Credit it like this (the one condition of the free licence):
“Courtyard Autumn Sigh” by BudgetPixel AI (https://budgetpixel.com/background-music/courtyard-autumn-sigh-fbbc9d3a) — CC BY 4.0
About this track
An AI-generated instrumental: “original melancholic Chinese traditional music, guzheng and erhu, slow pentatonic melody, in the style of 1987 Dream of Red Mansions, gentle and sorrowful, no vocals, no copying any existing melody, 3”. Quality-checked before listing, free for commercial and personal projects — videos, podcasts, games, streams and client work. No royalties — just credit BudgetPixel AI.
Editor's note (8.5/10): This gentle, sorrowful bed matches the requested 1987 Dream of Red Mansions tone, has a clean balanced mix that sits unobtrusively under speech, with only very subtle extra soft orchestral layering not specified in the brief.
Also searched as: dream of red mansions background, sad voiceover bed, traditional chinese music, montage backing audio
Music licensing — common questions
- Is "Courtyard Autumn Sigh" free to use commercially?
- Yes. "Courtyard Autumn Sigh" is free for commercial and personal use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — monetised YouTube videos, podcasts, games, apps, ads, streams, films and client work are all covered, with no fees, royalties or subscription. The one condition is the credit: “Courtyard Autumn Sigh” by BudgetPixel AI (https://budgetpixel.com/background-music/courtyard-autumn-sigh-fbbc9d3a) — CC BY 4.0
- Do I have to credit BudgetPixel to use "Courtyard Autumn Sigh"?
- Yes — crediting BudgetPixel AI is the one condition of the licence, and downloading still needs no account. Put the credit line from this page wherever your project lists sources: a video description, end credits, show notes, or a game's credits screen.
- What format and length is "Courtyard Autumn Sigh"?
- "Courtyard Autumn Sigh" runs 20 seconds and downloads as WAV at 44.1 kHz, with MP3 on the same download button. Both formats carry the identical licence, so pick whichever your editor prefers — WAV for mastering headroom, MP3 for a smaller upload.
- Can I use "Courtyard Autumn Sigh" in a monetised YouTube video?
- Yes. Monetised video is explicitly permitted. BudgetPixel never registers library audio with Content ID, and because this track is licensed to everyone non-exclusively under CC BY 4.0, no one can hold the exclusive rights Content ID requires. If a claim ever appears, dispute it and cite this page and its licence.
- Can I loop or trim "Courtyard Autumn Sigh"?
- Yes. You can trim, loop, pitch, stretch, layer and process the track however your project needs. Keep the credit and note that you edited it — CC BY 4.0 asks you to indicate changes.
Need a different feel? Tweak the prompt and generate — free, no account.
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Get music like this from your AI agent or your code
The whole library is searchable through the BudgetPixel MCP connector and the developer API, on every plan, Free included. A search costs 10 credits and returns each result's download link and credit line, so the 300 credits a free account gets every month cover 30 searches.
Ask your AI agent
Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to your BudgetPixel account once, with no API key, then ask in plain words:
Find free background music like “Courtyard Autumn Sigh” and give me the download link and its credit line.
Call the API
One request, with an API key from the developer console:
curl -G https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1/stock/music \
--data-urlencode "query=courtyard autumn sigh" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BUDGETPIXEL_API_KEY"Nothing in the library fits? On any paid plan the same connector and API generate music to order, and the models also come as plugins for ComfyUI, WordPress and Cursor.