Mosaic for Earth is available in full score with orchestra parts (rental only) and as a piano/vocal score with all soloist/choir parts (for sale as a complete book or as individual movements).
To order Mosaic for Earth scores, email Dwight Bigler (click here) with the following information:
Performance date and venue
Number of piano/vocal scores needed for singers
Number of conductor/full scores
Set of orchestra parts (rental only)
Plan your Performance
PERFORMANCE RIGHTS must be requested to perform certain movements of Mosaic for Earth.
Movements 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 13 contain public domain texts, and thus may be performed freely after renting/purchasing the music.
All other movements (5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 14) contain texts that are copyrighted, and thus require each choir/orchestra to obtain permission (and sometimes pay an additional fee) to perform them. Please carefully read the details and instructions below. Contact Dwight Bigler with any questions.
Remember: some movements contain texts by multiple authors.
To perform movements with texts by Terry Tempest Williams (Nos. 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14)
Click here to download the permission request form as a Word doc.
Complete the 3-4 applicable questions, including a suggested fee.
Email the completed form to Lina Granada at lgranada@bromasite.com. For more information, visit Brandt & Hochman Literary Agency.
To perform the 9th movement with text by W.S. Merwin:
Click here to download the permission request form as a Word doc.
Complete the 3-4 applicable questions, including a suggested fee for W.S. Merwin’s poem.
Email the completed form to permissions@wylieagency.com (CC: Beatriz Silversmith, bsilversmith@wylieagency.com). For more information, visit Wylie Agency.
REPRINT PERMISSION is required to include texts in your concert program book.
Terry Tempest Williams (Nos. 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14): Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Victoria Fox, victoria.fox@fsgbooks.com)
Erik Reece (Nos. 5, 7, 10): Riverhead Books, Penguin Publishing Group (Alicia Dercole, adercole@penguinrandomhouse.com)
Jim Wayne Miller (No.5): Appalachian Journal (Sandra Ballard, ballardsl@appstate.edu)
W.S. Merwin (No.9): Copper Canyon Press (Fred Courtright, PermDude@gmail.com)
N. Scott Momaday (No. 7): University of New Mexico Press has said reprinting this excerpt falls under “fair use,” so a permissions request is not required
Suggested Email Draft:
Dear [Name]:
[Name of Choir] is planning to perform Dwight Bigler’s “Mosaic for Earth,” on [date], at [venue name and address]. We are writing to request reprint rights to include the portion of your author’s text that is set to music in “Mosaic for Earth” in our concert program book. This includes [select appropriate description for each text]:
Terry Tempest Williams (excerpts from THE HOUR OF LAND and WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS)
Erik Reece (excerpts from LOST MOUNTAIN)
W.S. Merwin (“For a Coming Extinction” from Migration: New and Selected Poems)
Jim Wayne Miller (“Small Farms Disappearing in Tennessee")
The concert venue seats approximately [#]; our ticket price is [$___]; and our anticipated audience size is [#]. We propose a fee of [$___] for these reprint rights.
DIGITAL ARTS PROJECTIONS
To feature Barbara Wolff’s illuminations in your concert projections (Psalm 104: You Renew the Face of the Earth), email bw@artofbarbarawolff.com.
Visit www.artofbarbarawolff.com for more information.
To include David Franusich’s original visual arts projections (featured in the video)
email: dfranusi@vt.edu
Full List of permissions related to the composition, world-premiere performance, and recording of Mosaic for Earth
Permission to set, perform, and record texts in “Mosaic for Earth” granted by:
Excerpts from The Hour of Land, copyright © 2016 by Terry Tempest Williams. Used by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
Excerpt from When Women Were Birds, copyright © 2012 by Terry Tempest Williams. Used by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
Excerpts from Lost Mountain by Erik Reece. Copyright © 2006 Erik Reece, used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC.
“For a Coming Extinction" by W.S. Merwin, currently collected in The Second Four Books of Poems. Copyright © 1993 by W.S. Merwin, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Permission to set, perform, record, and reprint texts in “Mosaic for Earth” granted by:
"Small Farms Disappearing in Tennessee" by Jim Wayne Miller, originally published in Appalachian Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Autumn 1974). Used with permission from Appalachian Journal and Appalachian State University.
Excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain, 50th Anniversary Edition, by N. Scott Momaday, © 2019, published by the University of New Mexico Press. Used by permission.
“I Am a Union Woman” by Aunt Molly Jackson, copyright © 1960 (renewed) by Stormking Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Permission to reprint texts in “Mosaic for Earth” granted by:
Excerpts from THE HOUR OF LAND: A PERSONAL TOPOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS by Terry Tempest Williams. Copyright © 2016 by Terry Tempest Williams. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt from WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS: FIFTY-FOUR VARIATIONS ON VOICE by Terry Tempest Williams. Copyright © 2012 by Terry Tempest Williams. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt(s) from Lost Mountain by Erik Reece, copyright © 2006 by Erik Reece. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
W. S. Merwin, “For a Coming Extinction” from Migration: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 1967, 2005 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org
Public domain content:
Quote by Albert LeBeau used with his permission.
Excerpt from Stewart Udall’s letter to his grandchildren, public domain. Used with acknowledgement of his family.
Wilfred Owen, “Miners,” public domain.
Dwight Bigler, adaptations of Psalm 104, used by permission.