The first thing to note is that this term is multifarious, indeed, polyphonous, as our postmodern compatriots like to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

I listened to him attentively, vainly endeavoring to imagine how he produced such a volume of sounds, and delighted with the beautiful melody and exquisite harmony of his polyphonous song.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

I was placed on a platform, and he then made a polyphonous speech, without a consonant sound in it; describing, as I afterwards learned, the history of my discovery and capture, and going into some speculations on my nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

It also offers lots of connections to many of the books in the first half of the term, particularly in that it is a book by a white outsider who has become culturally as much of an insider as her circumstances allow, and who has deliberately written with a desire to recover and distribute the lost and polyphonous histories of the place she has made her home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outsider and the Idea of Africa] Reference

The history of this part of town is polyphonous, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore City Paper] Reference

We are in the city and Richard Florida, its eloquent narrator, is wearing sunglasses as he leans back in his chair and basks in its polyphonous splendour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Art - Online] Reference

And when one of these polyphonous pantomimic gentlemen offers to exhibit himself and his poetry we will show him every observance of respect, but at the same time tell him that there is no room for his kind in our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

Mozart's C minor Quartet fugue as overture, the strictly polyphonous treatment of the choruses, are abundantly compensated for by numerous traits of genius, and by the thorough knowledge and the earnest intention with which the work is conceived and executed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]