About
Hilary Seraph Donaldson holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Toronto. Her research interests are focused on the intersection of English musical modernism and the sacred in the music of Benjamin Britten. Her other areas of interest include music since 1900, the BBC, intersections in music and theology, and hymnology and congregational singing. Education
• PhD, University of Toronto, Musicology 2021
Dissertation: Modernism and the Sacred in the Music of Benjamin Britten
Supervisor: Dr. Sherry D. Lee
• MA, University of Toronto, Musicology 2012
• MSM, Southern Methodist University, Choral Conducting 2010
• BFA, Concordia University, Theatre (Minor Music), 2003 Publications
Peer-reviewed
“‘Whoever Saw a Woman with a Neck That Thick’: Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Walter Hussey, and Patronage of Modernist Art in Wartime.” The Musical Quarterly 105, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022).
“Singing the Story of Advent and Christmas: How Congregational Song Makes Diverse Theologies Incarnate,” Consensus 37, no. 2, Faith and the Arts (November 2016): article 3.
“Toward a Musical Praxis of Justice: A Survey of Global and Indigenous Canadian Song in the Hymnals of the Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Churches of Canada through their History,” The Hymn 63, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2012), 20–28.
“An Analysis of Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb,” Choral Journal 51, no. 10 (May 2011): 6–24.
Non peer-reviewed
“How Do We Lead?” Preface to Singing in Community: Paperless Music for Worship (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2017), vii–ix.
“Let Justice Flow Down like a River: Singing the Sovereignty of Creation,” Reformed Worship 119 (March 2016): 17–27. Memberships
America Musicological Society
North American British Music Studies Association
The Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada
