D-sharp minor

[dee shahrp mahy-ner]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The Emerson performed Mozart’s transcriptions for string quartet, in which he altered a few melodic and harmonic details, of the fugues in C minor, E-flat, E, D-sharp minor and D. The ensemble offered an elegant rendition in which the contrapuntal voices emerged with clarity.

From New York Times

Even a pyrotechnical display piece like Scriabin's Etude in D-sharp Minor is sanded, smoothed and tossed off as if it were a jeu d'esprit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another very famous piece, which comes in this volume, is, "Like a Blossoming Lilac My Love Is Fair," here written in the fearfully uninviting key of D-sharp minor.

From Project Gutenberg