Step label spectrum

Musical scales come in many varieties, but as long as they're ascending and periodic they can be broken down into a finite list of steps stacked on top on each other.

Now that abstract scale display is coming to Scale Workshop we need a system for indicating the sizes of steps that is both human readable and machine executable.

Below is a list of adjectives related to size ordered simulteneously in ascending ASCII order and descending size order.

• Biggest
• Colossal
• Enormous
• Gigantic
• Huge
• Large
• Medium
• Normal
• Ordinary
• narrow
• minute
• negligible
• petite
• small
• tiny
• unnoticeable
• zilch

The bolded first letter is intended as a shorthand for step patterns like L, M and s in LLsLLLs for Ionian or LMLsLsLMLs for Blackdye Grave Dorian.

The zilch step is reserved for steps of zero size i.e. repeated notes in the scale.