How did composers and musicians think about
themselves during the Baroque
period? How did this influence
the music that they created?

Composers during this time period also were affected heavily by the world around them. They were influenced by sonnets and literature as well as their environment during that era. Many pieces incorporated programmatic writing, like Vivaldi’s four seasons. His “Spring” movement had many poetic images, like how trolls represented chirping birds and tremelando passages portrayed an incoming storm.

Opposition of two melodic ideas is the  right answer