ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how music was structured within the community's daily schedule, before discussing the role each of the genres played in the events and activities—both secular and religious—that took place at Saint-Cyr. The founder's principal concern about music was the amount of time it would take away from the girls' education. The founder's attitude toward music had a strong effect on the role it played within the community. The Mainson's repertory of motets was further enlarged by the publication in 1733 of two volumes of Chants et motets, compiled by Clerambault specifically for the use of the Dames and Demoiselles at Saint-Cyr. The Demoiselles also sang at specified times in the afternoon; the three younger classes—"yellow," "green," and "red"—sang psalms and cantiques every day at 3:30, while at 2:30, the "blue" class sang motets and cantiques from memory, "without interrupting their hand work.".
