Shanghai Music Publishing House
Shanghai
Music Publishing House (SMPH) is an important
professional music publishing organization in
China. It possesses an all—round editorial staff
of higher quality and stronger power. Most of
its editorial members graduated from the famous
music conservatories and universities and colleges
in Shanghai and China. They can make a scientific
decision on the varieties of selected subjects
with their sharp eyesight as an editor, and
they have published a large number of music
books and scores deeply welcomed by the readers
at home and abroad.
According
to the incomplete statistics, SMPH has already
published more than 100 million copies of music
books and teaching material with various subjects
since its foundation.
Shanghai
is not only a cradle of the development of modern
and contemporary music in China but also an
original place of music publication in China.
Early at the beginning of the 20th century Shanghai
began to publish music books, magazines and
scores of the earlier period. In 1953 three
private publishing organization such as Shanghai
Wanye Bookstore and Education Bookstore were
emerged into one, and hence organized and founded
Shanghai New Music Publishing House. In October
of 1954 a part of members of Shanghai New Music
Publishing House were transferred to Beijing
to organize and found Beijing Music Publishing
House, now The People's Music Publishing House.
In autumn of 1956 according to the famous musician
He Luting's proposal, SMPH was established on
the foundation of the former New Music Publishing
House. Ding Shande, composer and music educator,
was appointed as President and concurrently
as Editor-in-chief. Qian Juntao, publisher,
was appointed as Vice-president while Qian Renkang,
music theorist, was appointed as Vice-editor-in-chief.
In a short time of two years, more than 200
kinds of influential music books were published.
In August of 1958 SMPH was combined with New
Literature & Art Publishing House and Culture
Publishing House into Shanghai Literature &
Art Publishing House, a “three-in-one” publishing
house. In January of 1987 the name of SMPH was
normally restored after having been approved
by the National Press and Publications Administration,
which was considered as a sub-name of Shanghai
Literature & Art Publishing House. Henceforth,
the readers again saw their well-beloved books
of SMPH brand in the domestic book market. In
September of 1997, after system reformation,
SMPH became an important member of Shanghai
General Literature & Art Publishing House
on the condition of “three-in-one” combination
of Literature & Art, Culture and Music Publishing
House.
At
the end of the century, the competition of music
books in the Chinese market is ever cute. Among
560 publishing houses of the whole nation, about
one third of the publishing organizations have
already touched on the field of music publications.
In this background, SMPH has begun to hold an
annual national Spring Music Books Ordering
Fair since May of 1998. It has jointly held
Music Books Ordering Fair with Hunan Literature
& Art Publishing House since 2002, hence
establishing the business strategy of regional
cooperation and co-development.
In
the new century in order to grasp the developmental
chance, SMPH, with the publication policy of
“getting the cultural quality and meeting the
market needs” and with the developmental aim
of “deepening the structural superiority of
selected subjects and enhancing the power of
competition” has gradually made the structure
of selected subjects more superior, has continuously
raised the quality of books to meet the people's
increasing needs for the music culture and has
actively striven to enhance the excellent achievements
of the domestic and foreign music culture by
way of foot-holding in Shanghai, serving the
whole country, connecting the world, expanding
the superiority of “Shanghai style” publications
and extracting the cream of the world music.
Up to the end of 2003 SMPH has published more
than 700 kinds of music books with a variety
of subjects and obtained a whole selling price
of about 50 million yuan. Its customer network
is popular in the nation and its market-occupying
rate ranks first in China. It has already become
a most active professional music publishing
organization in China, leading the mainstream
of consumption of the Chinese music book market.
Shanghai
A & V Literature and Art Publishing House
(SAVLAPH) was established in 2001 on the foundation
of remoulding the Audio & Video Department.
Recent years SAVLAPH has actively and closely
cooperated with SMPH, according to the international
customary doings for music books, has executed
the developmental strategy of combined package
for music books and audio & video products
and has realized the combined selling of a large
number of CD, VCD or DVD products with music
books, and has striven every effort to make
music books become a sound medium from a soundless
medium, and from a plane medium to a stereo
medium through the stereo strategy of development
and by way of exerting the package measures
of combining audio & video products with
music books. Now the sound music books possess
the combined superiority of two positive edition
resources so as to enlarge the space of a part
of music books, they are not only widely and
well praised by the readers but also have obtained
a good market result. SAVLAPH has further intensified
the development of products of education, dance,
fine art, film & TV performance. Now it
has produced more than 300 kinds of CD, VCD
and DVD products with different subjects.
In
June of 2004, after being approved by The National
Press and Publications Administration, the new
Shanghai General Literature & Art Publishing
House consisting of 8 publishing houses such
as Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing
House, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, Shanghai
Music Publishing House, Shanghai A&V Literature
and Art Publishing House, Shanghai People's
Fine Are Publishing House, Shanghai Painting
and Calligraphy Publishing House, Shanghai Pictorial
Publishing House and Shanghai Baijia Publishing
House was founded and put into operation. This
is a new organization specialized in publishing
culture and art books, and having good qualifications
and power. The new Shanghai General Literature
& Art Publishing House walked onto an ever
growing and expanding way toward a sharp aim
of combining literature, culture, music and
fine art into one. As a member of the General
Publishing House, SMPHA and SAVLAPH will continuously
intensify the idea of hardship and responsibility;
dare to create, to develop and to make progress.
They will resolutely march onto a way of development
of professionalism, specificity and famous brands.
They will further create a prosperous situation
for the market of music books and audio &
video products in China. They will also compose
a new piece of movement for an excellent market
environment in which a great deal of fine works
will be created by China's music publication
industry, and a market for competition in good
order will be formed.
Address: 74 Shaoxing Road, Shanghai,
P.R. China
Zip Code: 200020
Tel: 0086-21-64376483
Fax: 0086-21-64674944
Rights Editor: Tao Tian
E-mail: tt.smph@gmail.com
Http: //www.smph.sh.cn
