Schenkerian Studies
The apparent tonic in the music of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries Vol. 1: Text, Vol. 2: Graphs. Supervisor: Prof. Roger Kamien; submitted to the Senate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986. Hebrew
Tonic reference in non-tonic areas.
Investigations in tonal structural perception.
No crossing branches? The overlapping technique in Schenkerian analysis. Theory and Practice 20:149–175, 1996
Kamien, Roger, and Naphtali Wagner. Bridge themes within a chromaticized voice exchange in Mozart expositions. Music Theory Spectrum 19 (1), pp. 1–12, 1997
Beatles
The Beatles: The Seven Good Years.
The Beatles’ songs: Musical nihilism or lieder. Mafteah (journal for music teachers) 3 (January): 6–24 (1999) Hebrew
Tonal oscillation in the Beatles’ songs. Beatlesstudies 3,
Domestication of blue notes in the Beatles’ songs. Music Theory Spectrum 25/2: 353-367, 2003
Tonal family resemblance in Revolver. Chap. 5 of Every Sound There Is, ed. Russell Reising, 109–120.
Fixing a hole in the scale: Suppressed notes in the Beatles’ songs. Popular Music 25: 257-269 2004
Starting in the Middle: Auxiliary Cadences in the Beatles’ Songs. Music Analysis 25i-ii: 155-169, 2007
The Beatles' Psychoclassical Synthesis: Psychedelic Classicism and Classical Psychedelia. Sgt. Pepper: it is forty years ago today, ed. Olivier Julien,
The Beatles: Life After Death—Resurrection or Resuscitation? Protocols – History and Theory Online Issue No. 10. Bezalel Accademy of Art and Design,
The Israeli Song
Sasha Argov: Prosody Transforms into Music.
Balconies, Cats and Antennas: Musical and Poetic Images of the
The clash between poetic and musical meter in the songs of Sasha Argov. Mehkarei Yerushalayim 20: 39-51 (2005) Hebrew
The Shoemaker’s Tetrameter: Alterman á la Argov. Min-Ad:
The “High Windows”: A cross between Hebrew song and Israeli rock. How Do You Say “Modernism” Hebrew? ed. Oded Heilbronner. Resling (forthcoming) Hebrew
Wagner, Naphtali and Yael Reshef. Conversion through composition: The transformation of Bialik's prosody from Ashkenazi to the Sephardi stress patterns in nursery rhymes set to music. Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online, ed. Adena Portowitz: 1-24 (2006) Hebrew, abstract in English
Reshef,Yael and Naphtali Wagner. Putting the
Wagner
HaCohen, Ruth, and Naphtali Wagner. Analysis of Musical Meaning Using the ‘Semantic Integral Method’: The Case of Wagner’s Leitmotifs. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 155‑161, 1996
HaCohen Ruth and Naphtali Wagner. The communicative force of Wagner’s leitmotifs: Complementary relations between their connotations and denotations. Music Perception 14/4: 445‑476, 1997
HaCohen Ruth and Naphtali Wagner. 2003. The Gestural Power of the Wagnerian Leitmotifs: Self-Promoting Jingles or Self-Contained Expressions? Orbis Musicae 13 (Proceedings of the international conference “Rethinking Interpretive Traditions in Musicology”),
Music and Computers
Cohen, Dalia, Shlomo Dubnov and Naphtali Wagner. 1995. Uncertainty in distinguishing between structure and ornamentation in music. In Proceedings of the Sixth IFSA World Congress
Gang, Daniel, Daniel Lehman and Naphtali Wagner. 1997. Harmonizing Melodies in Real-time: The Connectionist Approach. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Association,
Gang, Daniel, Daniel Lehman and Naphtali Wagner. 1998. Tuning Neural Network for Harmonizing Melodies in Real-Time. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Association,
Keyboard harmony—a courseware system for harmonic skill acquisitions. Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 6:111‑131 , 1992
Autogenerativity and adaptivity in software for teaching music. Opus (journal of the Israel Association of Artists and Music Teachers) 5:59–68 (1991) Hebrew
Other publications
Schmidt, Christoph, and Naphtali Wagner. KV 614: Schock und Struktur in der Wiener Klassik. Musik & Asthetik, 10 (April): 28‑46 (1999) in German
Cohen, Dalia, and Naphtali Wagner. Concurrence and nonconcurrence between learned and natural schemata: The case of J. S. Bach’s Saraband in C Minor for Cello Solo. Journal of Music Research 29/1: 23-36, 2000
Music Past and Present, Tel Aviv: Mappah, 156 pages (2004) Hebrew