Popular music is usually improvisational, and almost always originates as sound before it is written down on paper. Some is never written down and some is written only with a few guidelines.
Stevie Wonder probably didn't "write" music in the same sense that Beethoven wrote music. Not meaning that as a criticism. He certainly did --create is probably a more accurate word than write-- some fine music. There are many ways to create music. Musical notation on staff or score paper is only one way.
Lindy
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