D minor

[dee mahy-ner]

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 one flat.

Example Sentences

Miller appeared to kick off the signing ceremony, entering to Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and looking suitably vampiric.

From Salon

He thought of the program he had planned back in December: the Taras Bulba Overture by Mykola Lysenko, a concerto by Edvard Grieg and César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor.

From Los Angeles Times

When asked about that fluidly modulating chord progression, she grabs her guitar and plays, naming as she goes: “It’s G, D minor … C, C minor …” For the non-music heads out there, in pop music, in the key of G, C and D are the usual complimentary chords and are expected to be major; those switches to minor are what give the song its unusual quality.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s one of those classical pieces, like Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies and Bach’s spooky Toccata and Fugue in D minor, that long ago left orchestra halls to entrench themselves in the American psyche.

From Los Angeles Times

The album begins almost teasingly — if unsurprisingly, for a musician who has released the ubiquitous “Für Elise” as a single — with Bach’s evergreen “Air for the G String,” leading into a sumptuously glamorous account of that composer’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor.

From New York Times