Orotund is a magnified, pure tone, and adds richness and power to the voice in speech.
Orotund quality, with fulness and power, varying middle and low pitch, moderate and quick movement, median and radical stress mixed.
Pure to orotund quality, gentle to moderate force, moderate movement, middle pitch, radical and median stress mixed.
For when we returned we selfishly persuaded a friend of ours to ride with us on the train so that we might imbibe some of his ripe orotund philosophy, which we had long been deprived of.
He describes the fine qualities of voice constituting the Orotund in the following words:-- By a fullness of voice, is meant the grave or hollow volume, which approaches to hoarseness.
The Orotund is a highly improved state of the Natural voice, and is the quality most used, being far more expressive, as it gives grandeur and energy to thought and expression.
Rush defines the Orotund as that assemblage of eminent qualities which constitute the highest characteristic of the speaking voice.
It may, of course, vary in pitch, but tones of low pitch that are intended to be impressive are most suitably rendered in orotund quality.
Orotund Quality= is the result only of cultivation, but no speaker or reader can produce those finer effects which are the appropriate symbols of strong and deep emotion, whose voice cannot assume this mode at will.
The orotund quality which is so effective in impassioned utterance, and in the expression of deep, forcible, and sublime emotions, is nothing more than pure tone increased in extent of volume, and in intensity of force.
The orotund quality in public speaking is saved for passages containing grandeur of thought, when the orator feels the need of a larger, fuller, more resonant and sounding voice to be in keeping with the sentiment.
The effectiveness of the orotund might be somewhat reduced if the audience knew the conscious mechanical processes which went to make it up.
