The Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española, or International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music (FIMTE), which I founded in 2000, is now internationally recognized as the leading organization in its field. Known as an international meeting-point of musicians, musicologists and instrument builders, and attended by scholars from universities and musical institutions worldwide, FIMTE provides opportunities for presenting new information about Spanish instruments, repertoire and performance practices. Since its inception, three Spanish harpsichords have been discovered and reported on for the first time, and FIMTE has fostered the preservation and study of the only extant combined harpsichord-piano-organ (Tornel, 1777). Moreover, under its auspices, a range of lost repertoire from the Renaissance to modern times has been recovered and researched.

Over the years, FIMTE has evolved from a festival into an institution organizing activities all year long, always with the aim of promoting the rich heritage of Spanish keyboard music. Publications have been an important branch of FIMTE since its inception: proceedings of FIMTE's ‘Diego Fernández’ symposia are published periodically. Written by the top scholars in the field, these books are reviewed in many international journals. The new FIMTE Journal (Journal of Spanish and Latin American Keyboard Music/Revista de Música de Tecla Española y Latinoamericana) is a peer-reviewed, semi-annual publication that will serve both the research and performing communities, encompassing the full spectrum of Spanish and Latin American keyboard music and instruments from their origins to the Second World War. Research articles will be supplemented on the FIMTE website by audiovisual resources.

As editor of the FIMTE Journal, I will be supported by a prestigious international editorial board: Egberto Bermúdez (Colombia), Cristina Bordas (Spain), Pedro Calahorra (Spain), Michael Christoforidis (Australia), Walter Clark (USA), Alma Espinosa (USA), John Koster (USA), Michael Latcham (Spain), Bernadette Nelson (UK), Francesco Nocerino (Italy), Grant O'Brien (UK), Stewart Pollens (USA), Edite Rocha (Portugal), Susanne Skyrm (USA), Aurelio Tello (Mexico), Bruno Turner (UK), Maria Clara Vargas Cullell (Costa Rica) and Cecily Winter (Mexico).

We encourage a variety of submissions, including reports of original research, review articles, discussions of musical or scholarly controversies and case reports. Papers should be written in either English or Spanish. All submissions should present novel work not previously reported or under consideration elsewhere. Authors are welcome to discuss any potential submissions with me in advance of submission by emailing fimte@fimte.org.

The FIMTE Journal will consider the following types of articles:

• • Research: reports of original scholarly work.

• • Reviews: critical discussions of any subject within the scope of the journal. While these articles are usually written by opinion leaders who have been invited by the editorial board, proposals directed to the editor are welcome.

• • Comment: short, narrowly focused articles of contemporary interest.

• • Discovery notes: brief reports of specific historical or technical discoveries.

Our contact details are:

FIMTE

Apdo. 212 Garrucha 04630

Almería

Spain

Tel: 34-950 13 26 21

fimte@fimte.org

<www.fimte.org>.