Here's the Goodies!
Welcome to the downloadable files area of the Bellchant Music, Inc. Web Site! Roger thought it would be a good idea if you could actually "Sample" our wares before you decided to buy them anyway. So we have provided some "Digital Samples" that you can download to get a preview of what is on the album. New to the site is the recent inclusion of RealAudio format files for listening in real time through a Web Browser plug-in! All files are listed in their order of appearance on the album.

Please note that not all of the pieces from the album are available for download, as we just don't have room for all that storage! Available pieces will have links, with file information to help you decide what to get.

If you are familliar with downloading files from Web Sites, then you might want to procede to the Playlist. If you're not sure what to do, then please follow the help list provided below:

Music From "Highlander-The Series" Audio Montage

Here you will find the "Highlander Montage", edited and assembled on the Pro Tools Digital Editing System by Roger Bellon and professional editor Beau Maxwell. This audio trailer will give a little over a minute and a half's glimpse into the contents of the album's music. Several pieces from the album were edited into one audio file to provide an interesting and varied sampling of the soundtrack's contents without requiring individual downloads of several digital audio files.

You might want to get this first. Use RealAudio if you can to hear it right now.
If you don't have Real Audio then go get it!
If that's not an option then you can still download the other versions, But BE WARNED...It will take a while...

Montage Duration: 1:33

About the Selections of Music on the CD and Cassette

Here you will find a list of all of the music pieces selected for this, the first soundtrack album from "Highlander-The Series".

Each listing tells the name of the piece recorded in order of appearance on the CD and Cassette, and the title of the Highlander episode it came from. In addition, Roger has also provided a small abstract of the scene the piece is from, often describing the actual scene, and always a description of the mood the scene is in.

What We're On About

Each item in the playlist starts with the music piece's name. Those that have extra information in blue (or perhaps purple if you've been here before) are Digital Samples. On any Multimedia ready computer, you will be able to play these sound files after retrieving them from our server computer through your modem. Just click on the file-link you want, and your Web viewer will retrieve it for you.

Depending on the speed of your connection, this download may take some time. Wherever possible, we have provided the files in different resolutions, (read: audio quality) that will take different amounts of time to download, and different amounts of harddisk space to store on your system. The larger the size and the higher the resolution, the better the music will sound through your playback system, but the longer it will take to download. You will decide for yourself what is best for you. People with high end systems using ISDN lines or even partial T1 lines will certainly benefit from the better performance from their higher performance connections when downloading the best files. In each case, the audio file was maximized to give the best performance in it's particular resolution. Once retrieved, your Web viewer should provide a link to the appropriate audio program that it thinks should be used to playback the sounds. Check the instructions for the Web viewer you are using to learn more about this.

About RealAudio

RealAudio from Progressive Networks is a solution for transmitting audio information in real time across an Internet connection to your Web Browser. This means that you don't have to wait huge amounts of time to download a large audio file to your home system before you can listen to it. Depending on the size of the file and the speed of your Internet connection, this can take some time! RealAudio uses it's own compression method to strip the audio source of as much data as possible in order to make the file small enough that it can be transmitted to your modem while you are listening to it! For more complete information about the subject, or to download the RealAudio Player, please visit the Progressive Networks Homepage at www.realaudio.com.

About the Audio Samples in the Playlist
All files in the list have information explaining their technical qualities i.e. bit depth, stereo/mono imaging, sampling rate, audio bandwidth and file size:
Footnotes
  1. (8Bit Samples have been provided as a special favor to those users not posessing 16Bit Audio Playback cards (such as the SoundBlaster16 for PC compatibles or any Digidesign card for Macintosh or other means of 16Bit audio playback in their systems.)

  2. (Combined with 16Bits in Stereo, 44K Sampling Rate files are of Compact Disk quality)

  3. (Converted to a lower resolution, 22K files will have an audio range of up to about 11K in the high end spectrum. Additionally, 11K files will only go up to about 6.5K in the high end frequencies. Treble frequencies unfortunately take the hardest hit in lower resolution sampling...)

These codes are used so that we can provide you with a uniform method of compatible file naming without a whole lot of extra confusion once your files are downloaded.

The Music From "Highlander-The Series" Playlist

1.) STEAM HOLE (1:19)
Show: "The Color of Authority"
Opening sequence: A darkened alleyway...something sinister lurks. Fear for your life.
2.) THROUGH PICTURES STORIES (4:13)
Show: "Counterfeit Part II"
The final episode of the second season finds Duncan witnessing the resurrection of Tess...but is it real?
3.) A WOODY THROUGH TIME/OUT FOR THE NIGHT (2:13)
Shows: "Warmonger" and "Color of Authority"
Flashback to 19th century Russia, Duncan chops wood deep in a forest glen.. Unexpectedly, we hear the tinkling of a saloon piano drifting through the dark streets of the old west.
4.) SQUAW MAN (3:05)
Show: "Line of Fire"
The decimation of the Tribe. Duncan mourns the death of the Indian woman he loved in another lifetime.
5.) FADED MEMORY/ A SECRET PLACE (4:23)
Show: "Pharoah's Daughter"
From the first somber tones of an Egyptian burial service, entombed deep in the bowels of the earth, we time-travel to a jazz fantasia (in the style of Sydney Bechet) wafting up from an old tube radio.
6.) DEMON MIRACLE (3:19)
Show: "Family Tree"
A seminal episode, flashing back to Duncan's first death and subsequent rebirth as an Immortal.
7.) HAND IN HAND (2:37)
Show: "Band of Brothers"
Duncan and Tess share a tender moment.
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Bite Duration: 0:31
8.) HE'S A STAR/LEVEL PLAYING FIELD (5:14)
Shows: "Revenge of the Sword" and "They Also Serve"
Johnny Sang demonstrates the Zen of karate, which transforms into a HIGHLANDER battle scene.
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Bite Duration: 0:45
9.) JUST A DREAM/FALLING ROSE (2:15)
Shows: "See No Evil" and "Legacy"
Duncan's nemisis is transported to the Jazz Age, then we time-travel back to the sixteenth century and the genteel dance of the madigral.
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Bite Duration: 0:30
10.) SAMARAI SUITE (7:07)
Show: "Samarai"
A compiliation of music from the celebrated first show of the third season. Eighteenth Century Japan parades its feudal glory.
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Bite Duration: 0:40
11.) THE FOOD CHAIN (2:38)
Show: "See No Evil"
An inevitable encounter...a bittersweet aftertaste.
12.) WE ARE WARRIORS (1:00)
Show: "Take Back The Night"
The spirit of the warrior charges through eternity.
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Bite Duration: 1:00:
13.) DOSI DUNCAN (1:07)
Show: "Obsession"
A wholesome slice of hoedown harmony puts Duncan to the terpschordian test.
Swell fiddlin' by Charlie Bisharat.
14.) BIG RIVER (3:30)
Show: "Mountain Men"
Duncan, collapsed in death amidst a pile of human bones, returns to life cold, hungrya
and utterly lost in the wilderness. (A good beefcake scene in this episode!)
15.) MODERATE MONKS (1:32)
Show: "For Evil's Sake"
A taste of life in an aristocratic court of Eighteenth Century France. The ambiance is sumptuous,the courtiers...deadly.
16.) PROMISE OF BETTER (3:42)
Show: "Bless The Child"
A classic battle scene, set amidst the ancient sentinel of the mountains. Shot in Vancouver, B.C.
17.) WINDS WITH YOU (2:08)
Show: "Saving Grace"
An Eighteenth Century English courtyard sets the stage. Here Duncan renews with Grace the bond they share throughout time.
18.) LITERACY KILLS (1:15)
Show: "Cross Of Saint Antoine"
The slithery slide of a Delta blues (played by Rusty Anderson) accompanies Joe as he works his misery into a drunken stupor.
19.) SLOW ON THE ROAD (1:55)
Show: "Nowhere To Run"
Opening sequence: A young woman alone, wandering after a trying ordeal.
20.) BELLY DANCE/PINK PENSION (3:09)
Show: "Finale Part II" and "Prodigal Son"
In the Arabian harem, concubine Amanda tries to belly dance her navel off for a very skeptical Duncan. Then we time-travel to Spain and the strains of the flamenco, where Richie once again finds himself in trouble.
21.) TO HAPPINESS (3:30)
Show: "Eye For An Eye"
A lilting Irish ditty which underscores Duncan's eternal affection for bonnie Immortal Annie Devlin.
22.) EN POSITION/A LIFE UPSIDE-DOWN (3:30)
Shows: "Eye of The Beholder" and "Color of Authority"
In the fields of an earlier time, a fencing duel between Duncan and the evil Gabriel Pitone dissolves away. And then there is only the reflective Immortal...gazing into eternity, contemplating forever.
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