本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛In "Der Leiermann" the distinguish between dream and reality is effectively abolished, marking the traveler's unqualified abandonment of his senses and therewith his release from the obsessions that have made his existence a living hell. He proposes to accompany a hurdy-gurdy man on his rounds:

Wunderlisher Alter!
Soll ich mit dir gehn?
Willst zu meinen Liedern
Deine Leier drehn?

O you strange old fellow, Shall I walk with you?
Do you want to grind your organ
Playing to my songs?

"Der Leiermann" is the only song in the cycle to remain in a single mode from start to finish. Schubert composes it in A minor, and in terms of the cycle's harmonic code (minor = reality; major = illusion) one might expect it to signify a return to reality. But it is a very curious A minor, in which the piano plays open fifths, largely omitting the flattered third that would affirm the song's tonality unambiguously. The immediate reason for this is Schubert's wish to imitate the "open"harmonies of a primitive hand organ. But there is a psychological reason as well, I believe: the open fifths (which are constituents of both the major and the minor triads) suggest a realm beyond the familiar major-minor antithesis, a novel harmonic arena where the traveler is liberated, symbolically, from the fixations that have ruined his life. Schubert here foregoes his most distinctive and powerful compositional tool -- the juxtapostion of major and minor -- in order to convey the ironic transcendence that his traveler achieves in his final delirium.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net