New Releases by David Dutkanicz

Updated and expanded, this collection of special arrangements helps beginning pianists experience the pleasure and satisfaction of playing Mozart. Features forty selections in a variety of moods and tempi, plus MP3 downloads for each song.

These easy-to-intermediate piano duets include Schubert's Variations on a French Song; Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, Op. 72; Mendelssohn's Allegro brillante, Op. 92; many other popular selections. Includes downloadable MP3 files for each piece.

This edition of Vivaldi's perennially popular work features distilled selections from the entire score — winter, spring, summer, and fall — that have been specially adapted for beginning pianists.

Accessible collection, focusing on the composer's melodies and style, presents manageable samples of the more abstract works. Includes highlights from The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Les Noces, and Petrushka.

These simplified versions of 29 of the composer's most popular works include selections from Daphnis et Chloé, Rapsodie espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, Le tombeau de Couperin, and other works.

Specially arranged keyboard versions of popular works include selections from La Traviata, Aïda, Otello, Falstaff, Don Carlos, Macbeth, Rigoletto, and other operas. All selections are available as downloadable MP3s.

Beginning pianists can have the pleasure of playing one of Western music's most popular pieces with this easy-to-play arrangement, which offers highlights from the work and includes downloadable MP3s.

Beginners often find the compositions of Antonin Dvořák frustratingly difficult to play, but this introductory volume provides an accessible and satisfying entrée to the Czech composer's oeuvre. Excerpts from his more abstract works are presented in manageable samples, with simplified keys and fingerings, and the pieces are presented in gradually increasing order of difficulty. There are an assortment of Dvořák's well-known and much-loved compositions. Humoresques is a piano cycle inspired by his sojourn in the United States. Slavonic Dances was influenced by Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Flavorful pieces rooted in folk music, including excerpts from the Czech Suite and Prague Waltzes and a pair of lively mazurkas are featured. Other highlights include "Songs My Mother Taught Me," "The Noon Witch," and pieces from cello and violin concertos and symphonic movements. All thirty-six selections are available as downloadable MP3s.

This easy-to-play edition features Tchaikovsky's entire original suite; two extended arrangements, March and Russian Dance; plus five selections from the ballet that the composer omitted from the suite.

Simple, easy-to-play arrangements focus on melodies and style: "Vocalise"; Prelude No. 2, Op. 3 ("Bells of Moscow"); second movement, Piano Concerto No. 2; more. Includes MP3 files for each composition.

Update of the original, an essential part of the repertoire for more than a century, features exercises for training in speed, agility, and strength of fingers and wrists plus downloadable MP3s.

Beginning pianists of all ages will thrill to this compilation of 57 piano classics, ranging from standards such as Chopsticks and Can Can to classical works by Rachmaninoff, Mozart, other composers. Perfect for practicing, MP3 files are included for each song.

Twenty-nine piano arrangements include Ode to Joy, Sheep May Safely Graze, and works by Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Vivaldi, Liszt, Haydn, and many others, plus a free MP3 download for every piece.

Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation, which features multiple pieces by many of the greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, and others.

Suitable for beginning pianists of all ages, this volume includes the famous "Lullaby," the theme from "Academic Festival Overture," "Hungarian Dance No. 5," excerpts from "A Study for the Left Hand," more.

These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.

Offers twenty-one easy-to-play melodies for the piano including George Gershwin's "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Irving Berlin.

Simplified piano arrangements featuring some of the best-loved blues music of all time.

Accessible to novices of all ages, these easy-to-play renditions include selections from "Forest Scenes," "Scenes from Childhood," "Album for the Young," and "Carnaval."