A maybe different answer: Tehillim has its own music. You may have seen a Tehillim with taamim, the cantillation notes These are the Taamei Emet (unique to Iyov Mishle and Tehillin. They are not so easy to learn once your are familiar with standard taamim, and Ashkenazim don’t have a mesorah for how they sound, but among the Sfardim, there is an almost alive, not quite lost mesorah of the sound. I have heard from a Chacham Gadol, that the commas and phrasing of some editions is in conflict with that decreed by the taamim.
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