Deutsch - Englisch
- diminuieren - to diminute
- Diminution (Verkleinerung) - diminution
- Dirigent - conductor, leader
- dissonant mit/zu - dissonant with/against
- Dissonanz - dissonance
- dissonieren mit/gegen - to dissonate with/against
- Dominante - dominant
- Dominantseptakkord - dominant seventh chord
- Doppeldominante - secondary dominant
- doppelt vermindert - double diminished
- Dreiklang - triad, common chord
- Durakkord (harter Akkord) - major chord
- durchbrochene Arbeit - filigree work; the distribution of themes in fragments over various instruments
- Duole - duplet
- durchführen - to develop, to elaborate
- durchspielen - to play through, to run through
- Dynamik - dynamics, dynamic range