Improvisation

Noun

 * 1) The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
 * 2) That which is improvised; an impromptu.
 * 3) Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.

Thesaurus
action, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad-libbing, answer, arrangement, artifice, authorship, beginning, cadenza, coinage, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, countermove, coup, course of action, creation, creative effort, demarche, device, devising, disqualification, dodge, effort, expedient, extemporaneousness, extemporariness, extempore, extemporization, fabrication, flourish, generation, gimmick, hatching, hot lick, impromptu, improvision, incapability, incompetence, interpolation, invention, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, lack of preparation, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lick, makeshift, making do, maneuver, means, measure, mintage, move, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, origination, pis aller, planlessness, playing by ear, pro tempore, resort, resource, riff, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, tactic, temporary arrangement, temporary expedient, temporary measure, trick, trump, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vamp, vulnerability, working hypothesis, working proposition

Etymology
From improvisation.

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Noun

 * 1) improvisation all meanings