... concerning the composition of musical scores ...

To me, music composition, in its truest and broadest sense, is not a specialised, separate, isolated endeavor, nor a discipline to be cordoned off within the hierarchy of specialised musical labor. Rather, it is a fundamental mode of being within Music itself — a generative act that arises naturally from the matrix of musical thought and practice. To compose is not merely to write, nor simply to invent: it is to think musically. It is to participate in the ongoing process of making and shaping musical tones (notes in the score) in ways that reflect both individual voice and universal order. This understanding of composition challenges the prevailing model that sees it as an autonomous, innovation-driven enterprise, detached from performance and improvisation, and embedded in the narratives of progress, stylistic rupture, or aesthetic rupture. My personal philosophy of music composition — or more precisely, score composition (since performan...