National Collections
The national music collection (printed scores and manuscripts) is located at the Royal Library, which is the main Danish library for music. The Music and Theatre Department of the library’s headquarters at the Black Diamond has its own reading room.
Royal Library
The Music and Theatre Department

The parliamentary act governing the statutory submission of publications has resulted in a more or less complete collection of printed Danish scores, located at the State and University Library in Aarhus, Department of Music.
State and University Library

Both the Royal Library and the State and University Library can provide photocopies of non-copyrighted scores, but are also making increasing numbers of scanned-in scores available via the Internet, where they can be freely used as so-called e-scores.

These two libraries also comprise the driving force behind the Online Music Research Library of Denmark (Det Virtuelle Musikbibliotek - DVM), a professional portal aimed at institutions of higher education and music research.
Online Music Research Library of Denmark

The Danish Collection of Phonograms is kept in the State and University Library. All commercially-published Danish recordings are now backed up on hard disk at the Library, and the work of retrospectively digitalising older recordings is in progress. The entire database, which in 2005 encompassed around 400,000 titles, has been made available for music library borrowers and for commercial exploitation via:
Basepoint Media (Phonofile)

Specialised Collections and Museums
Danish Folklore Archives with scores and recordings of traditional folk music
Museum of Musical Instruments in Copenhagen
Danish Revue Museum in Frederiksberg, with revue and entertainment music
Carl Nielsen Museum in Odense, Denmarks only composer museum

 All of these institutions possess substantial collections of sources and documentary archives.

Public Libraries
Music recorded on CD may be loaned from all Danish public libraries; the libraries' accessible holdings may be searched via their joint database at
bibliotek.dk.

From 2004 on, it also became possible for library users to download musical recordings in electronic form for short-term borrowing via
bibliotekernesnetmusik.dk .

The music departments of the public libraries share a common website. Here you will find recommendations, articles and news about music, produced in a national collaboration between the libraries.
musikbibliotek.dk

Music research
Music research in Denmark is concentrated in the universities and the music conservatories. Other institutions with research status are:
Royal Library
Museum of Musical Instruments
Danish Folklore Archives

There is a great breadth of genres in Danish music research, which also encompasses related disciplines such as the study of musical instruments, iconography, and musical education. The institutions of higher education have established the
Danish Network of Musical Education Research
Danish University of Education

Another interdisciplinary field is the maintained by:
Network for Cross-Disciplinary Studies of Music and Meaning.

Research in the field of music therapy takes place at the Aalborg University:
Department of Music and Music Therapy.

The professional association for music researchers is the Danish Musicological Society, which publishes the Danish Yearbook of Musicology.

August 2007