~Jeffrey Noonan, Lindsay Adams, Philip Spray and Charles Metz make up Such Sweete Melodie

The Baroque music era may have ended in 1725, but that doesn't mean that musicians all around the world are going to let it die.

Dr. Jeffrey Noonan, a Southeast Missouri State University associate professor of music and one-fourth of the ensemble Such Sweete Melodie, is one of these people. Such Sweete Melodie will perform as a part of the Sundays at Three concert series at 3 p.m. on Nov. 3. Brandon Christensen, who created the series, will participate in the show as a guest violinist.

Noonan, who also teaches part-time at Washington University in St. Louis, participates with other professional musicians Lindsay Adams, Philip Spray and Charles Metz. The quartet began working together professionally after Spray, Adams and Noonan were grouped together in a recording session that was led by Spray.

Metz joined the trio in late 2012 as a keyboard specialist who also happened to own a 400-year-old virginal, which is a smaller and simpler version of a harpsichord. The quartet has performed at multiple colleges.

Noonan originally was trained as a classical guitarist but is performing in the show with different plucked instruments such as theorbo, which is a very big lute, early guitars and lutes. He is directing the show as well.

Adams is a mezzo-soprano vocalist and the principal vocalist for an ensemble group called Musik Ekklesia, which literally means "music for the church." It is the ensemble-in-residence for the Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zionsville, Ind., and was featured on the group's 2010 Grammy-nominated recording "The Vanishing Nordic Chorale."

Spray is the director of Musik Ekklesia. He performs on the violone, which refers to different large, bowed instruments that can belong to the violin family, the lirone, a bass member of the lira family, recorder and Baroque guitar. Metz performs on the harpsichord and the recorder. All musicians performing in the show have been classically trained at their respective universities.

The show will mainly focus on the early Baroque period and will feature music that helped define the Baroque period as a break from the more old-fashioned music the people from the time were used to and that showed them that music could be more on edge.

"I've always been intrigued by Baroque music," Emily Mulligan, a Southeast junior, said. "I'm really excited for the group's show."

Such Sweete Melodie will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Robert F. and Gertrude L. Shuck Music Recital Hall. Tickets are $15 at the River Campus box office or rivercampusevents.com.