* Dabka (Dabke) - Palestinian dance music for weddings
* Dadra
* Daina - Latvian sung poetry
* Daino - Lithuanian traditional music
* Dalauna
* Dance (musical form) - dance (form of musical composition)
* Dance music - any rhythmic music intended for dancing
* Dance-pop - comtemporary form of dance music with pop music structures
* Dance-punk - fusion of punk rock, funk, disco, and electro music (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk, and indie-dance)
* Dance-rock
* Dancehall
* Dangdut - popular Indonesian dance music with influences from Arabic and Indian music
* Dansband
* Danza
* Danzón
* Dark ambient
* Dark cabaret
* Darkcore (hardcore techno)
* Darkcore (drum & bass)
* Dark pop
* Darkwave

* De codru
* De dragoste
* De jale
* De pahar
* Deathcore - a fusion between death metal and metalcore
* Deathgrind - a fusion between death metal and grindcore
* Death industrial
* Death metal
* Death/Doom - a fusion between death metal and doom metal
* Death rock
* Décima
* Degung
* Delta blues
* Deep house
* Deep soul
* Dementia - relating to the style of music popularized by the Dr. Demento Show
* Desi - Indian folk music
* Detroit blues
* Detroit techno
* Dhamar - a type of highly-oranemented dhrupad
* Dhimotiká - traditional Greek songs
* Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi
* Dhun

* Digital hardcore
* Dirge
* Dirty rap
* Dirty South (also known as Southern rap)
* Disco
* Disco house
* Disco polo - Polish nightclub dance music, played in '90s.
* Diva house
* Dixieland jazz (Chicago jazz)
* Djambadon
* Dodompa - Japanese tango
* Doina
* Dombola
* Dondang sayang - slow folk music that mixes Malaysian forms with Portuguese, India, Chinese and Arabic music
* Donegal fiddle tradition
* Dongjing - Chinese Naxi form of folk music, related to silk and bamboo music from Chinca
* Doo wop
* Doom metal
* Doomcore
* Downtempo
* Dream pop
* Drone doom (Also known as Drone metal)
* Drone music
* Dronology
* Drum and bass (DNB)

* Dub
* Dub house
* Dubtronica
* Dubstep
* Dunun - Yoruba drum music
* Dunedin Sound - early 1980s alternative rock sound based out of Dunedin, New Zealand and Flying Nun Records
* Dutch jazz