Other Psalms remind us of Chronicles. Music plays an integral part in the official sacrifices and feast days. The king leads the procession of worshipers to the house of God (Psalm 42:4 cf. 2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Chronicles 15:25-28; Psalm 68:24-25). The music continues over the offerings at the altar.
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise You with the lyre, O God, my God. (Psalm 43:3-4)
Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. (Psalm 81:2-4)
This music is not about attracting crowds. It is not about catering to a particular generation or demographic. It is not about setting a mood. This is music to God. This music is offered to God as surely as the other gifts and sacrifices being offered.
I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD. (Psalm 27:6)
When King Hezekiah recovers from a deadly illness, he plans to return to the temple with instrumental praise.
The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD. (Isaiah 38:20)