
A cappella
"The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee" is an exuberant
self-definition by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author, and Native
American, N. Scott, Momady, whose Kiowa name is Tsoai-talee. It is a joyous
catalog of all his delights, of all that he is. In this work, the tempo is
rapid as the images tumble one after another culminating with the exclamation
"You see, I am alive, I am alive." The piece should be sung with
energy and focus even (or especially) in the soft sections. "The Delight
Song of Tsoai-talee" is the third movement of a larger work, Songs of
the Equinox and Solstice, and is associated in this larger work with the
autumnal equinox.