The Danish Music Scene is characterised by a number of organisations and institutions working for Danish music in Denmark and abroad. Several of these are supported by The Danish Arts Council Committee for Music or the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

Genre Organisations
5 musical genre organisations in Denmark are supported by funds allocated by the Danish Arts Council. These organisations work to promote music within their respective genres through various activities and subsidies.

Danish Rock Council (ROSA)
Danish Folk Council (FFS)
Danish Jazz Federation (DJF)
Danish World Music Association
SNYK (the Secretariat for Contemporary Music)

Organisations and Institutions
The Danish Arts Council provides operating subsidies to a number of other organisations and institutions:

Dacapo, a recording company in the classical field which is amongst other things responsible for establishing a national anthology of Danish music covering all areas of musical history.
Dacapo

Edition Samfundet, a publisher within the classical field whose activities include promoting music which does not have the interest of the private music publishers.
Edition Samfundet

The National Secretariat for Danish Amateur Music, a secretariat for the 14 associations for choirs and orchestras as well as the two umbrella organisations Danish Amateur Choirs Unions (DAKU) and the Danish Amateur Music Union (DAMU). The secretariats provides advice and guidance on such matters as international exchanges and funding.
The National Secretariat for Danish Amateur Music
Danish Amateur Choirs Union
Danish Amateur Music Union

Live Music in Schools, an association which organises school concerts all over the country, in collaboration with local authorities.
Live Music in Schools (LMS) 

MXD and Phonofile
Two organisations working in the area of music receive support from the Danish Ministry of Culture:

Music Export Denmark (MXD). The purpose of MXD is to promote and support Danish music exports and the international presentation of professional Danish rhythmic music, both commercially and culturally, by:

• providing economic support for Danish music exports
• organising initiatives and concerts
• improving international familiarity with Danish music
• collecting and processing information and know-how.

MXD was established 2005 on the initiative of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), the Venue Foundation/Roskilde Festival and the Danish Rock Council (ROSA). This group was joined by the Danish record industry organisation IFPI Denmark, and the Danish independent recording companies' organisation, DUP. The broad level of backing encouraged the Danish Ministry of Culture to provide economic support in the form of a DKK 10 million grant for a trial period of three years.
Music Export Denmark (MXD) 

Phonofile was founded in 2005 in a collaborative venture between the Danish record industry organisation IFPI Denmark, the creative and performing artists' organisations and the State and University Library in Aarhus. All music issued in Denmark is to be available for commercial and library-related use via Phonofile. The music is sold to recording companies for re-release on CD, and to Internet shops.
Phonofile

August 2007