Graham Pont aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1934-2021

Textual Records, Notated Music, Manuscript Notated Music, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Moving Images, Architectural and Technical Drawings

9661434

20 metres of textual material (114 boxes and 2 outsize boxes)
107 text files - digital
1 videocassette
13 architectural drawings

Professor Graham Pont, a specialist in interdisciplinary studies, taught in the General Education programme at the University of New South Wales for thirty years. Here he introduced the world's first undergraduate courses in Gastronomy (1978-88). He was a founding convener of the Symposium of Australian Gastronomy (1984) and co-editor of Landmarks of Australian Gastronomy (1988). His last appointments were a visiting professorship in the School of Science and Technology Studies, UNSW (1996-99) and a visiting fellowship to Clare Hall, Cambridge (1997-8).

Trained in philosophy, his principal research area has been history and philosophy of music but his interests have also extended to environmental studies, history of architecture, landscape, history of gardening, philosophy of technology, Pythagorean traditions, bio-acoustics and wine history.

Pont served as the first national president of the Musicological Society of Australia (1976-77). He rediscovered Handel's overtures for harpsichord or organ (1983) and the authentic principles of their interpretation (1980, 2007). In 2002, he published the results of the first major computer analysis of Handel's music. Work on the keyboard transcriptions of 'Vo' far guerra' secured the attribution to Handel himself rather than William Babell. Another major area of research was Australia's first resident colonial composer and musicologist, Isaac Nathan (1792-1864). Pont's biography of Nathan was unpublished at the time of Pont's death in 2021.

References:

Graham Pont and Peter Proudfoot, "From Cosmic City to Esoteric Cinema", pp. 195-206 in Nexus IV: Architecture and Mathematics, eds. Kim Williams and Jose Francisco Rodrigues, Fucecchio (Florence): Kim Williams Books, 2002.

COLLECTION 1:
Graham Pont papers, 1956-1999
Presented by Dr Graham Pont in 1999

COLLECTION 2:
Graham Pont further papers, 1967-2004
Presented by Dr Graham Pont in 2016

COLLECTION 3:
Graham Pont further papers, 1934-2021
Presented by Christopher White, executor of the estate of Dr Graham Pont, 2022

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