Music, signifies the principal sound or sounds by which others are produced. Thus the lowest C for the treble of the harpsichord, besides its octave, will strike an attentive ear with its twelfth above, or G in alt., and with its seventeenth above, or E in alt. The C, therefore, is called their generator, the G and E its products or harmonies. But in the approximation of chords, for G, its octave below is substituted, which constitutes a fifth from the generator, or lowest C; and for E, is likewise substituted its fifteenth below, which, with the above-mentioned C, forms a third major. To the lowest notes, therefore, exchanged for those in alt. by substitution, the denominations of products or harmonics are likewise given, whilst the C retains the name of their generator. But still according to the system of Tartini, two notes in concord, which when sounded produce a third, may be termed the concurring generators of that third. (See Generation Harmonique, par M. Rameau; see also that delineation of Tartini's system called The Power and Principles of Harmony.

Generical name, in Natural History, the word used to signify all the species of natural bodies, which agree in certain essential and peculiar characters, and therefore all of the same family or kind; so that the word used as the generical name equally expresses every one of them, and some other words expressive of the peculiar qualities or figures of each are added, in order to denote them singly, and make up what is called the specific name. See Botany and Natural History.