Performance practice in music is the overall term for the techniques, rules, and customs that mediate between the notated music and the played sound. Coined in specialist usage around 1920, it is thus not synonymous with the concept of musical interpretation, which was already used sporadically by the mid-19th century but itself only became established later in the 20th century, and which is far more strongly associated with the creative business of interpreting music than with the technical aspects of how to perform it. On performance practice in literature (i.e. drama), cf. Theate…