Maxixes

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The Maxixe (sometimes also written Machiche or Matchiche ) is a Brazilian dance in 2/4 time, which has also become known as Brazilian Tango . It was created between 1870 and 1880 in Rio de Janeiro from forerunners of the Tango Argentino ( Candombe and Milonga ), from the Cuban Habanera and influenced by the polka and the Afro-Brazilian Lundu . The Maxixe is considered to be the first urban fashion dance in Brazil . Like the tango, the maxixe became popular in the USA and Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Today the Maxixe is hardly widespread as it has been supplanted by the Samba , which it also influenced.

A maxix by the composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré became so popular at the beginning of the 20th century that it was even quoted in works of classical music such as An American in Paris by George Gershwin (1928) or the Piano Concerto by Francis Poulenc (1949). A Berlin subtext to this maxix reads:

When my wife undresses,
what
she looks like, then she has crooked beene
and false teeth.

A variant of this text is quoted in the play Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1930) by Carl Zuckmayer . It reads:

When my wife undresses,
what she looks like,
the bed like two boxes, it makes
a beep.

Audio documents

Maxixes on Argentine piano rolls:

Maxixe in Germany:

  • La Mattchiche. March (Paris dance) [sic] Seidler's orchestra, Berlin. Zonophon x-20 644 (Mat. 4035 ½ h)
  • Tango maxixe (Siegwart Ehrlich) Orchestra PD Herfst , conducted by Robert L. Leonard, Berlin. Gramophone Monarch Record 0940 725 (Matr. 1288 s) (30 cm) Recorded on November 28, 1913
  • Maxixe Brésilienne (Salabert) String Orchestra Löwenthal from the Equitable-Palast Berlin. Homocord 15 187 (A 12/31/13)

Maxixes with German text:

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Gustav Schönwald sings a text with this opening line, which castigates women’s addiction to cleaning, on the gramophone record
  2. ↑ Lukas Richter: Mother, the man with the coke is here. Berlin hit songs. 2nd Edition. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1977, p. 138.
  3. ↑ Photo at sampor.de (accessed on February 5, 2016)