This is a full translation, with introduction and annotations, of Symphonic Etudes, first published in 1922 by the eminent twentieth-century scholar and critic Boris Asafyev.

A full scholarly apparatus, giving new information unavailable elsewhere, makes the book even more valuable to dancers and to students of dance and music at the junction of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Satan returns to earth and takes the form of a very wealthy American businessman who tours round Europe having fun and good time.

Moliere's best known plays include Tartuffe, The Miser, The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, and The School for Wives. Psyche is a tragic play based off Apuleius' book The Golden Asse.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.