It does have six sharps in the key signature, tricky for anybody… D sharp minor has six sharps in its key signature. Picture: IMSLP How do composers pick which keys to write their music in? There are ...

D minor plays on our rawest emotion — but in contemporary music, even the most somber of artists tend to avoid it. Why might this be?

The major key and the minor key, which will begin on a different note. This is known as the relative minor. So G major, for example has a key signature of one sharp, but this is also the key ...