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Coins and Music from The Year They Were Minted

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Post a picture of a coin and a link to one or more musical pieces that were written in the same year.  

I'll go first:

1787

Shilling - Made to order at the Tower Mint for the Bank of England.  This is the "no dots on obverse" variation:

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Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic

 

Mozart - Don Giovanni - Overture

 

As an aside, my nickname at high school was "Mozart" because of my love of classical music and a desire to become a composer.  One of these things has remained, although I did enter uni with this goal still in mind.

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I think you will struggle to get this one going. Most of us will be able to put a piece of music to a composer, but there's not a hope in hell that we will be able to guess the year it was written. Even with modern music, the release date for a single or album isn't necessarily the year in which it was written.

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Yes @Rob.  I think I'll be talking to myself on this thread.  I'll keep it going, though, as I find it fascinating to associate coins with other aspects of culture going on around it at the same time. 

Edit: If anyone's interested, feel free to post a coin and I'll find some music to go with it.   

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1972

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Sorry, I'm afraid the coin is very very boring!

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1905

 

 

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Something to keep Madness amused for a while - 1513. Tournai groat struck in the name of Henry VIII.

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5 hours ago, Rob said:

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Something to keep Madness amused for a while - 1513. Tournai groat struck in the name of Henry VIII.

 

1513

Here's a piece written by Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521).  King Henry VIII's grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, was his patroness for a while.  Although I don't have a chronology of his works, the embedded Gloria from his Missa Albanus would almost certainly have still been in circulation as the style was still popular in England in 1513.  His work is represented in the Eton choir book of 1510, which miraculously escaped the destructive zeal of the reformation.  Not only are we musically richer for its survival, but the manuscript itself is a thing of beauty, magnificently and elaborately decorated, much like the music it surrounded.  

 

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