Music and other Performing Arts

Please check out Madonnas and Angels for angels playing musical instruments, especially lutes and harps.

Australia

1977 Performing Arts
20c Musicians £0.05
30c Drama £0.10
40c Dancer £0.10

1980 Waltzing Matilda
These 22c stamps form a composite design, with the illustrated words of the song.
£0.50 for the set of five stamps

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Brazil

1981 Festivities
6oc Resado, with musicians £0.20

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Bulgaria

1982 Musical Instruments
13s bagpipes, 25s Flutes, 30s Rebec
35s Flute and pipe and 44s mandolin
£1.25 for the set of five, mint

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Chad

1965 Native Musical Instruments
1f Drum, 2f Guitar, 3f Shoulder drum
£0.05 each, CTO

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Czechoslovakia

1970 World Figures
40h Beethoven £0.05

1971 Stamp Day
1k Posthorns £0.05

1974 Musical Instruments
20h Sousaphone £0.05
40h Benka violin £0.05

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Germany

1981 South German Dancers
Set of two stamps, £0.15

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Germany (DDR)

1971 Musical Instruments
10pf North African drums £0.05

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Ghana

1977 African Festival of Arts
8p Dipo dancers and drum ensemble £0.05

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Great Britain

1978 Carols
(9p and 13p shown here)
7p Singing carols round the tree £0.05
9p The Waits £0.10
11p 18th century carol singers £0.15
13p Boar's Head Carol £0.15

1980 British Conductors
(17.5p shown here)
12p Sir Henry Wood £0.05
13.5c Sir Thomas Beecham £0.15
15p Sir Malcolm Sargent £0.15
17.5p Sir John Barbirolli £0.15

1982 Youth Organisations
15. 5p Boys' Brigade showing drummer £0.05

1982 Theatre
15.5p Ballerina £0.05

1999 Millennium
19p Freddie Mercury £0.20

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Greece

1975 Musical Instruments
7d Lute £0.05

2002 Traditional Dances
(four from this set shown here)
10c Aegean Isles £0.05
20c Peleponnese £0.10
30c Pontian Greek £0.15
35c Kythnos £0.20
45c Kotsari £0.20
50c Crete £0.25
60c Hassapiko £0.30
85c Epirus £0.40
1E Kalamtianos £0.45
2E Crete £0.75

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India

1974 Various themes
1r Sitar £0.05

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Ireland

1980 Traditional Music
15p Playing the Uilleann Pipes £0.05

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Ivory Coast

2004 Return of the King
Set of six, £1.75, mint

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Jamaica

1978 Salvation Army
10c Band £0.05

1995 Bob Marley
(50c and $10 shown here)
50c Song of Freedom £0.05
$1.10 Fire £0.10
$1.40 Time Will Tell £0.10
$3 Natural Mystic £0.30
$10 Live at the Lyceum £0.75

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Kampuchea

1984 Musical Instruments
Five stamps from a set of seven
£0.30 for the five

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Kenya

1979 National Theatre
50c Lion and Jewel £0.05

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Manama

1971 Mozart
1r Portrait of Mozart £0.10

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Mongolia

1974 Mongolian Opera
15m Hebe Namshills
20m Sive Hiagt
£0.10 for the two stamps, CTO

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Nepal

1983 Musical Instruments
1r Murchunga £0.10

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Poland

1969 Provincial Costumes
40g Dancers from Lublin £0.05

1977 Piano Festival
12.50 Keyboard £0.05

1972 Composer
10g Ballet scene
60g Opera scene
Very large, with gold edging.
£0.10 for the two stamps, CTO

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Ras al Khaima

1970 Beethoven
3r Portrait of Beethoven £0.05

1972 Theatre
1.65r Japanese actor £0.05

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Romania

1967 Music
20b Alpine Horn Player £0.05, CTO.

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Rwanda

1973 Musical Instruments
20c Longnube £0.05, mint

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Swaziland

2003 Musical Instruments
80c Sitolotolo £0.05

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Vietnam

1972 Folk Dances
12x Drum Dance
30x Ka-Dong dance
£0.15 for the two stamps

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Yemen

1968 Paintings
1/2b Musicians from 16th century Persian painting £0.05

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Zambia

1975 Various themes
3n National dance troupe £0.25
also available, 1979, same picture, 10n on 3n at £0.05

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Zimbabwe

1985 Various themes
35n Traditional dancing £0.10
$1 Playing the Mbira £0.25

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Paintings

Ajman

1972 The Creation
2r Cranach Adam and Eve (shown here)
2r Durer, Adam
£0.15 for the two stamps

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Australia

1981 Paintings
$2 On the Wallaby Trail £0.10

1994 Christmas
$1 Adoration of the Magi, Wise men and Joseph £0.25

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Canada

1972 Krieghoff
8c The Blacksmith's shop £0.05

1980 Royal Academy of Arts
17c School meeting £0.05
17c Inspiration £0.05
35c Sagenay sunrise £0.15
35c Parliament buildings £0.15
Set of four, £0.35

1981 Canadian Paintings
(not shown here)
35c Untitled, Borduas £0.15

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Czechoslovakia

1970 Paintings by Josef Lada
1.80k The Water Demon £0.05

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Equatorial Guinea

1971 Paintings
50pta Renoir £0.10

1972 European Masters
15pta Modigliani (shown here)
50pta Manet
£0.20 for the two stamps

1972 Rubens
(50pta shown here)
1pta, 5pta, 15pta and 50pta
£0.35 for the four stamps
More of this set available

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Fujeira

1971 Paintings
50dh Titian (shown here)
1r Cranach Judgement of Paris
2r Tintoretto Joseph and Potipher's wife
3r Veronese Mars and Cupid
£0.30 for the four stamps

1972 Paintings
40dh Gauguin Tahitians sur la plage £0.15
3r Chirico Roger et Angelique £0.10
4r Boucher Venus (shown here) £0.05
or £0.25 for the three stamps

1972 Old Masters
One of the Modiglianis is shown here
Price, £0.85 for the twelve stamps.

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Germany

2002 Painting
55c Halle market Church £0.25

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Germany (DDR)

1979 Indian Miniatures
20pf 18th century miniature
35pf 15th century miniature
50pf 17th century miniature
£0.15 for the three stamps

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Great Britain

1967 British paintings
4d Master Lambton £0.05

1968 British Paintings
4d Queen Elizabeth I £0.05

1971 Ulster Paintings
Mountain Road £0.10

1973 British Paintings
3p Self portrait, Joshua Reynolds £0.05

1975 Turner
(not shown here)
4.5p Peace £0.10

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Greece

1970 Labours of Hercules
5d Hercules overwhelming the Nemean lion £0.05

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Latvia

1993 National Song Festival
15s Abstract painting £0.15

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Malta

1977, 1978 and 1979 Flemish Tapestries
These are very large stamps showing different tapestries. Shown here is the Entry into Jerusalem. This and the others listed below are available at £0.05 each.

1977
2c Annunciation
7c Four Evangelists

1978
2c Entry into Jerusalem (shown here)
7c The Last Supper

1979
2c Triumph of the Church
7c Triumph of Charity

1980
2c Institution of Corpus Domini
8c Destruction of Idolatry

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Manama

1970 Mother's day
1r Botticelli £0.10

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Poland

1977 Rubens
1z The Toilet of Venus £0.05
1.50z Bathsheba at the Fountain (shown here) £0.05

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Romania

Romania issued stamps showing paintings in 1969 and 1971, and they have very similar designs, classic life paintings of young women, some by Romanian artists, others by foreign artists such as Renoir. The 10b Tattarescu is shown here.

1969 Paintings in the National Gallery
10b Tattarescu £0.05 (shown here)
20b Pallady £0.05
35b Tonitza £0.05
60b Venus and Cupid £0.10
1.75 Diana and Endymion £0.30

1969 Paintings
1.75 Vigee Lebrun £0.10

1971 Paintings
10b Iser £0.05
20b Ressu £0.05
60b Delacroix £0.05
1.75 Renoir £0.10

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Rwanda

1971 Durer
20c Adam £0.05, mint

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Princess Diana and the Royal Family

Great Britain

1972 Silver Wedding Anniversary
3p Queen and Prince Philip £0.10 (shown here)
20p Queen and Prince Philip £0.25

1973 Princess Anne's Wedding
3.5p The couple £0.10

1977 Silver Jubilee
(this set shows the same design in different colours)
8.5p shown here £0.05
9p as above £0.10
10p as above £0.10
11p as above £0.15
13p shown here £0.15
set of five, £0.50

1980 80th Birthday of Queen Mother
12p Queen Mother £0.20

1981 Wedding of Lady Diana and Prince Charles
14p The couple, blue border £0.10
25p Same photo as above, silver border £0.35 (shown here)

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Grenada

1982 Birthday of Princess of Wales
$5 MS without overprint £0.85
$5 MS with Royal Baby overprint (shown here) £0.75

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Grenadines of Grenada

1982 21st Birthday of Princess of Wales
$5 MS without overprint £0.75
$5 MS with Royal Baby overprint (shown here) £0.55

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Maldives

1982 Birthday of Princess of Wales
(not shown here)
$5 MS without overprint £0.75
$5 MS with Royal Baby overprint £0.55

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New Zealand

1973 Health
An unbelievably cute Prince Edward as a child
3c and 4c, same design, different colours) £0.15 each

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Niue

1982 21st Birthday of Princess of Wales
set of three, £0.75, mint

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Saint Vincent

1977 Silver Jubilee
1/2c William l, William ll, Henry l and Stephen £0.05, mint

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Swaziland

1982 21st Birthday of Princess of Wales
set of four, £1.35, mint
Similar sets available from different countries

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