ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on earlier research that explored the expectations evoked on hearing a piece of music for the first time using data gathered from a musical savant, Derek Paravicini. In the current study, Derek was asked to play the newly created piece at the same time as hearing it on nine further occasions. To succeed required him to anticipate what notes were coming next at any given point. The probability of him predicting an event correctly was hypothesised to be a function of the number of zygonic relationships functioning between groups through which it was implied, both within and between hearings. This theory was supported by the data that were gathered. The extent to which Derek’s way of perceiving and memorising a piece of music can reasonably be generalised to other listeners is discussed.