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
Celyn	-	Welsh
Anastazie	-	Czech
GÉRaud	zhe-RO	French
Nader	-	Arabic
Mykola	-	Ukrainian
Benedek	-	Hungarian