Dear all,  I seek a MIDI file or MP3 audio file of the cachucha
music for barrel organ or musical box.

While researching 19th century Brazilian popular music I got the
information that the cachucha (or caxuxa) was very popular in
barrel organ versions.  I have searched the unknown files at
http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Sounds  but I could not identify
any of them as the tune that I have.  I have annexed a MP3 file
with cachucha's theme [below].  It could also be caxuxa...

I have evidence of the Spanish caxuxa being played with barrel
organs and music boxes in 1841.  An ad published in the Diário do
Rio de Janeiro on 15 October 1841 tells about a stolen music box
that played "Caxuxa," the "Marseillaise" and the "Postillon de
Madame Ablon" (a quadrille by Philippe Musard).

Also, I did a search in the MMDigest website and found this auction
description in the MMDigest Archives:

http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Auctions/Chartres0105/chtr0105E1.html 

  774 A rare and beautiful musical box, movement attributed to L'Epée,
  8 tunes, key-wound, ca 1845. Pretty (not original) serpentine case
  in oak. A separation rises to give access to the key-winding and the
  3 commands. 48xl9xl4 cm. Beautiful movement n' 4822, massive brass
  bedplate, cylinder brass 28 cm, 80 teeth. Facsimile of instructions
  and tunesheet, of which: " Amazones, Gysèle, and Cachucha " (sic).
  Plays briskly and well noted, beautiful general condition (except
  4th air, various damaged pins). This movement is typical of the
  beginnings of the firm L'Epée, which took the succession of Henri
  Paur in 1839.

Martha Ulhôa
My email: mulhoa@unirio.br.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

 [ Cachucha-theme
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/15/10/27/151027_022032_Cachucha-theme.mp3 

 [ Martha Ulhôa is a distinguished scholar of popular Brazilian music.
 [ She is currently Professor of Musicology at the Universidade Federal
 [ do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), where she teaches courses on
 [ Western Music History, Popular Music Analyses, and Musicology.
 [
 [ Prof. Ulhôa was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department
 [ of Music at King's from May 2011 - February 2012.  During her stay
 [ she worked on a project on recordings in consultation with Daniel
 [ Leech-Wilkinson (Music) and David Treece (Spanish, Portuguese &
 [ Brazilian Studies) and was writing a book on the earliest acoustic
 [ recordings of popular Brazilian music.  Further details of her work
 [ are available in her c.v. at http://lattes.cnpq.br/5378800627543781 
 [ Ref. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/initiatives/global/brazilinstitute/people/visitingresearchers/pastvisitingresearchers/mulhoa.aspx