improvise on

improvise on something

[for a musician] to create a new piece of music on an existing musical theme. For an encore, the organist improvised on "Mary Had a Little Lamb." She chose to improvise on an old folk theme.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Amandus	-	Late Roman
Stefanu	-	Old Church Slavic
Reinhild	rien-HIL-də	German
Akim	-	Russian
Sariah	-	Mormon
Nikomedes	-	Ancient Greek