Best Edition 2014
Once again this year, the German Music Publishers Association (DMV) has honored particularly successful publications with the "Best Edition" award. It thus sets an example for publishing commitment and publishing diversity.
Music publishers in Germany are countering the growing competition from publications on the Internet, which often show little publishing commitment, with high quality, emphasized Winfried Jacobs, Chairman of the DMV's E-Music Committee, at the award ceremony. The growing number of educational literature that includes new forms of music-making, such as beatboxing, is also particularly pleasing.
The jury, consisting of five representatives from the fields of design, musicology, sheet music trade and music journalism, had to choose from 72 submissions. All submitted works were judged according to the following criteria:
- Graphic and editorial overall impression, whereby an editorial claim must also be fulfilled
- Special publishing achievement or idea
- Correctness and graphic quality of the music (engraving, typography, electronic notation, calligraphy)
- Cover design, title page, page layout
- Printing, paper, binding
German music retailers stock more than 300,000 editions of sheet music from publishers, with around 5,000 new releases every year.
Award-winning publications 2014
Manfred Schmitz, Piano - The first way to play by chord symbols, Volume I
AMA Publishing House, Brühl
