Mr. Petric's writings support and revivify a historic interpretive art with post-critical perspective. His first publication The Concert Accordion - Contemporary Perspectives opens windows to a rounded accordion art beyond the mirrors of anti-historical fetish. The work introduced Giovanni Gagliardi’s forgotten 1911 treatise Manualetto del Fisharmonicista to an international readership and documented the origins of the concert accordion for the first time in the literature. Acclaimed as '...a towering achievement and a model of scholarship...'(Goldman), Petric weaves a musicology of forgotten treatises, correspondance, photographs, documentation of more than 60 interpretive artists and more than fifty unknown instruments and patents 1890-1950 .
His Holistic Accordion - a Manifesto (2022) builds on Gagliardi's trenchant 1911 treatise and Pierre Monichon's musicology (1972) . 'Brilliantly written and theoretically astute' (Hutcheon), the theoretical work complements modernist destinations with perspectives of an informed interpretative art tested in an uninterrupted 40 year career in the concert agora.
His third book Accordion Dialogues (2025) opens fresh pathways to an interpretive art for young artists in conversations with artistic companions Enrico Ceccheti, Hanna Arendt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bob Dylan, Hugo Noth and Colin Tilney among others.
Mr. Petric's writing is an organic outcome complementary to his performances. His fourth book is pending.
He is published exclusively by Augemus Press, Essen, Germany, available here www.augemus.de .