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
Wasyl	-	Ukrainian
Sexton	['sekstən]
Aabraham	AH:B-rah-hahm	Finnish
Kavita	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Esther	ES-tər (English, Dutch), es-TER (French)	English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Lati
Nikol	-	Czech, Bulgarian