Various tunes of imayo, including Etenraku Imayo (syllabic-style tunes) mentioned below, were also composed, and there existed two categories of tunes : melisma-style tunes, such as Choseiden, and syllabic-style tunes, such as the melancholy music used from 1964 to 1993 in the self-introduction announcement of Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd., which was originally the music of koto (a long Japanese zither with 13 strings).
曲の方も、後述の越天楽今様（音節型）の他に各種作られ、長生殿のようなメリスマ型の曲や、中部日本放送の局名告知（1964-1993）に使われたような暗い曲調のもの（原曲は箏曲、シラブル型）もあった。