Any composers of "classical"/tonal music out there

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My purpose for this thread is for meeting up with Aspie composers. We love music -- we live IN music, and so we understand one another. So that's why I'm starting this thread, so we can get to know one another.

I guess that one of my Aspie obsessions has been the music of Bach (hence my user name), which wired my auditory brain starting at the age of 10. When I listen to music I pretty much hear everything, and it's so much fun. So anyway, I recently had a 6 month sabbatical and wrote a Suite for Clarinet and Piano. Kind of baroque in influence but not a slavish copy of Bach - although it's highly contrapuntal. I'm trying to get it performed. Hard because I'm a self-taught composer, but I'm persistent.

So who are the composers out there?

I wrote this years ago using Cubase and Miroslav Philharmonik. Some day I'd like to get formal lessons in composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCA-zZB6i5Y

That's actually pretty good! You would benefit from some formal composition training, it would make your music even better. You clearly have skills.

I wish I could share with you mine. I have some WAV files but have no clue how to upload them to YOUTube.

That was interesting. It was good considering you haven't had formal training. I couldn't help but notice the distinct similarity to the opening of Mahler's 2nd.

I so know nothing about classical music, didn't notice any similarities to anything.

I have to ramp up my music studies now and see if I can write something cool. It seems so hard and foreign to me though!

Ok, I was able to load up one of my pieces on something called "soundcloud." Go to the site, then search for JSBACHlover and you'll see a Suite for Clarinet and Piano, the first movement. Wonder what you'll think of it? Thanks!

Ha, the first felt a little churchy to me - I wonder if I would have thought that if I didn't know your job.

The second one I liked a lot. It was spunky. I don't know much about music so I can't express this technically but it felt like the notes were almost cascading over one another which gave it a lot of movement.

How in the heck do you guys do that? It's not like writing words, or is it like writings words?

Did you actually perform it or is that an electronic rendition?

How do we do it? We think in music. It's its own language, like mathematics. Isn't that cool? I can listen to a piece and immediately appreciate and judge its internal coherence and logic. It's my Aspergers thing. Oh did you like the third movement, the Gigue?

Had to go back and listen again - didn't realize there were three of them.

That prelude, still has a very churchy feel to it - is it supposed to? Made me feel like I was looking up at stained glass windows trying to figure out how to escape! You might not see the humor in that. When you are saying mass does your mind never wander - during the parts while you're waiting for your parts? I don't know how you do it, I'd go nuts. The parts I always liked though were the sermon and readings. I've been having priest & nun flashbacks since I started talking to you too - luckily most of them are nice memories.

Anyway, back to your music. I liked the gavotte a lot and also the gigue. The gigue reminded me for some reason of a Victorian novel - some Thomas Hardy character, maybe Gabriel Oak out herding sheep. And I learned two new music words.

Do you ever listen to music that's not classical? I guess you couldn't blast Lady Gaga in the rectory - I'm middle aged, but I like her! Usually I listen to more like alternative rock or folk, but sometimes I listen to the pop songs just to keep up with what's going on.

However since I've been trying to learn to read music for about a month, your classical stuff is very interesting.

I sort of get the churchy thing about the first movement. I suppose if Bach sounds churchy to you, then certainly that piece would.

It's interesting to me that the Gigue reminded you of a Thomas Hardy novel. I can't imagine why at all, but that's because I don't make associations with music; I simply hear it and go into it and live it. The parts speak to one another. It's a real joy. Good luck as you get more into music. I would start with Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Start with #3 and listen to it "like an Aspie" i.e. 100 times in a row. Then go to #2. Then go to #4. Then go to #5. Then #6. Then #1.

That's how my brain was wired for music -- by listening to the Brandenburg Concertos.

I put two more movements of my Suite on soundcloud. They are the slower movements.