Then "he" sings the melody, and "she" sometimes sings "Dana", other times sings "Ah" with a high voice or technical passage. Although singing the third part of "Dana Dana" (="Dana Dana Dana Dana.") the man sometimes sings lower than the melody using disjunct motions. First, a woman (Secunda wrote "she") sings four bars and then the man (Secunda wrote "he") sings the next four. He wrote "piu mosso" (more rapidly) for the refrain and some passages that emphasize the winds. The melody of the introduction was also used at the end of the song. He wrote for the choral score "andantino" (some slowly) and "sempre staccato" (play staccato always). The Yiddish text was written with roman alphabet. Secunda wrote "Dana-" for the orchestral score and "Dana Dana" for the vocal scores. The original is 2/4, in G minor for a duo of a man and a woman, choral with the orchestral accompaniment. The orchestra plays the Dana Dana melody at several points in Esterke.
The text underlay in the score and parts is otherwise romanized in a phonetic transcription oriented toward stage German. The lyric sheet is in typewritten Yiddish and handwritten Yiddish lyrics also appear in the piano score. The lyrics, score, parts, and associated material are available online in the Yiddish Theater Digital Archives. The song's title is a variant on Adonai, a Jewish name for God.ĭana Dana was written for the Aaron Zeitlin stage production Esterke (1940–41) with music composed by Sholom Secunda.
Donna Donna (דאַנאַ דאַנאַ "Dana Dana", also known as דאָס קעלבל "Dos Kelbl" - The Calf) is a Yiddish theater song about a calf being led to slaughter.
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