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。 |