The Maid That's Made For Love and Me

Comte de St. Germain. January 1747. "The Maid That's Made For Love and Me". London Magazine. T. Astley (London, UK).

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Seller Mina Dorian was awesome enough to send photos of both pages of sheet music.

The London Magazine was published between 1732 through 1785, revived from 1820 through 1829.  In 1898, Harmsworth magazine launched and changed its named to London Magazine, which ran until 1933.  It was relaunched in 1954 and again in 2002 after a brief closure, still runs in 2025.

Read the whole thing online:

HathiTrust 1747, all months. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011439521&seq=1 (#62/p.46 and #63/p.47)

This magazine, in January 1747, would feature current affairs (revolts, politics, etc), political predictions, essays and letters, poetry, music, astronomical events, stocks, foreign affairs, and only a few images.  In the January 1747 issue, Count St. Germain's song was the only piece of music published in the issue.  This would have been a method of delivering new music to the masses.  With only 10 short lines of musical notation and 5 song verses, this could be considered pop music of its day.

The other aspect of this is marketing.  Count St. Germain had just produced L'Incostanza Delusa in April 1746 at a theatre on Haymarket Street, London.  Giving people some music that they could learn and play at home could have been a method of gaining more musical fans.