Silver Plate - Silver plating, when properly cared for, provides a long lasting beautiful finish on metal instruments and the key mechanisms of woodwinds.

Glissando - Gliss. The rapid scale achieved by sliding the nail of the thumb or third finger over the white keys of the piano. Glissando is commonly used in playing the harp. For bowed instruments glissando indicates a flowing, unaccented playing of a passage.

Perfect - A term used to label fourth, fifth, and octave intervals. It corresponds to the major, as given to seconds, thirds, sixths, and sevenths.

Ukulele - (or Ukelele) small guitar shaped instrument of Hawaiian origin, 4 nylon strings.

Moderato - Moderate(ly)

Pandeiro - either frame drum or tambourine of Portugal, Brazil and Galicia (Spain).

Common time - 4/4 meter.

Eighth note/rest - A note/rest half the length of a quarter note and an eighth of the length of a whole note.

Grand piano - A piano with a winglike shape and a horizontal frame, strings, and soundboard.

Inversion - As applied to music the term may be used in both melody and harmony. Melodic inversion: an exchange of ascending and descending movement, e.g. c up to f in descending becomes c down to g. Harmonic inversion: the position of the chord is changed from root position (root on the lowest pitch) to first inversion, with the third, or second inversion, with the fifth in the lowest voice. An example: root position c-e-g; first inversion e-g-c; second inversion g-c-e.

Un poco - A little.