D major

American  

[dee may-jer] / ˈdi ˈmeɪ dʒər /

noun

1. Music. the key that has D as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having two sharps.

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Example Sentences

Watts won a Philadelphia Orchestra student competition and debuted when he was 10 in a children’s concert on Jan. 12, 1957, performing the first movement of Haydn’s Concerto in D major.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the first installment of a three-part festival dedicated to Mozart by pairing the overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” and Symphony No. 35 in D major “Haffner.”

From Washington Post • May 31, 2019

Music — including favorites like Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in D major — played in her head when she ran, helping her through monotonous stretches of the course.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

Musically, the song plays a clever trick by starting in the key of F major before switching to the relative minor, D major, and never fully resolving - echoing the lineman's disjointed state of mind.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2017

So music that is in, for example, C major, will not sound significantly different from music that is in, say, D major.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones