The Danish RIdIM Group

Répertoire international d'iconographie musicale

RIdIM is an international project documenting music iconography. It is supported by IAML (International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) and IMS (The International Musicological Society) and the organisation publishes a newsletter and the periodical Imago Musicae annually.

The members of the Danish group are:

• Dorthe Falcon Møller, The Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen
  
• Lisbet Torp, The Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen
  
• Heinrich W. Schwab, University of Copenhagen 
  
• Jens Henrik Koudal, The Danish Folklore Archives, Copenhagen
  
• Niels Krabbe, The Royal Library, Music and Theatre Department, Copenhagen
  
• Anne Ørbæk Jensen, The Royal Library, Music and Theatre Department, Copenhagen

The next RIdIM-conference takes place in New York, 11-14 March 2008 with the title   Music, Body, and Stage. The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera

Links to the main Danish picture collections

Recent published research in music iconography (in Denmark og by Danes)

Knud Arne Jürgensen: "Bournonville in Photographs: Photography as a Source in Ballet History", RIdIM Newsletter 20/2, 1995, p. 53-57

Dorthe Falcon Møller: "Do Danish Medieval Mural Paintings with Musical Motifs say Something About Medieval Insturments?", RIdIM Newsletter 20/2, 1995,, p. 49-52

Dorthe Falcon Møller: Klang på Kalk - Musiksymbolik i dansk kalkmaleri, Forlaget Falcon, København 1996. 192. p. Also in an English edition: Music aloft : musical symbolism in the mural paintings of Danish medieval churches, Falcon, Copenhagen 1996.

Mogens Bencard: "Cornelis Gijsbrechts' trompe l'oeil", Musikkens tjenere. Instrument, Forsker, Musiker, ed. by Mette Müller and Lisbet Torp (Meddelelser fra Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudius' Samling VI. 1898-1998). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Copenhagen 1998, p. 167-74

Erik A. Nielsen: "Solens fødsel - om ikonografien i Mozarts Tryllefløjten", [The Birth of the Sun - about iconography in Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'] in: Erik A. Nielsen: Solens fødsel. Seks tekster om kristendommens hemmeligheder. Anis, Frederiksberg 1998, p. 179-224

Erling Møldrup: "A Danish Photo Gallery", Guitar Review 118 (fall 1999) p. 17-23

Inger Sørensen: "Et Mozartportræt i Danmark. Løsningen på en gåde" [A Mozart portrait in Denmark. Solution of a riddle], in:  Bøger, Samlinger, Historie, ed. by Lotte Philipson and John T. Lauridsen. The Royal Library, Copenhagen 1999, p. 289-96 (originally published in 1993)

Frank Büchmann-Møller: Is this to be my Souvenir? Jazz Photos from the Timme Rosenkrantz Collection 1918-1969. Odense University Press, Odense 2000, 202 p.

Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark: "Delacroix - maleriets musik" [Delacroix - hte music of painting], in: Delacroix - maleriets musik, ed. by Thomas Lederballe. Published in connection with an exhibition at Ordrupgaard 13.9.-30.12. 2000. Ordrup 2000, p. 9-44

Mette Müller: "'...saa blev jeg Dilettant og Samler'. Benjamin Wolffs tegninger på Musikhistorisk Museum" ['...and then I became an amateur and collector'. Benjamin Wollf's drawings in the Danish Music Museum], Meddelelser fra Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudius' Samling VII (1996-1999), ed. by Lisbet Torp. Copenhagen 2000, p.30-42

Klaus Neiiendam: "Et clavichordbilledes historie. Den musikalske dronning Louise og de italienske operister" [The history of a clavichord picture. The musical queen Louise and the Italian operists], in: Klaus Neiiendam: Danske teaterhistoriske studier. Selskabet for Dansk Teaterhistorie, Copenhagen 2000, p. 57-80

Vincent Pomarède: "Frédéric Chopin og George Sand - to portrætter af Eugène Delacroix",  [Frédéric Chopin and George Sand - two portraits by Eugène Delacroix], in:  Delacroix - maleriets musik, ed. by Thomas Lederballe. Published in connection with an exhibition at Ordrupgaard 13.9.-30.12. 2000. Ordrup 2000, p. 45-62

Funch, Bjarne Sode: "Mellem musik og billedkunst" [Between music and art], Passepartout 12/23 (2004), p. 136-55

Guldberg, Martin: "Syng et maleri" [Sing a painting], Passepartout 12/23 (2004), p. 131-55

Østrem, Eyolf and Nils Holger Petersen, Borgny Farstad Svalastog: Chords. 23 monotypes from Messiaen’s ’La Nativité du Seigneur. Faces, (Copenhagen: Danish National Research Foundation: Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, 2004), 25 pp.

Schwab, Heinrich W.: "Johannes Voorhouts Gemälde ”Häusliche Musikszene”. Zum Problem der Identifikation Dietrich Buxtehudes", [Johannes Voorhouts painting 'Domestic Music Scene'. About the problem of identifying Dietrich Buxtehude], in Anne Ørbæk Jensen, John T. Lauridsen, Erland Kolding Nielsen and Claus Røllum-Larsen (eds.), Musikvidenskabelige kompositioner. Festskrift til Niels Krabbe 1941 * 3. oktober * 2006 (København: Det Kongelige Bibliotek, 2006), 55-73 + iv-v.