What is missing from my aunt's inheritance?

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A few days ago my aunt passed away and left her inheritance. I feel like something is missing but I don't know what, she left this music score instead:

I can't read the musical notation: can you help me identifying what is missing from my aunt's inheritance?
Here is a transcription of the score in case someone wants to analyze it automatically. The text version is completely equivalent to the image above thus it is not needed to solve the puzzle. Each group of two item is a note followed by its duration (4=1/4, 8=1/8 and so on). Z is the pause, grouped notes are written in brackets. srep is for "start repeat" and erep is for "end repeat".
key signature: E (4 sharps: F# C# G# and D#)
time signature: 4/4
first line: F8 F8 F8 F8 {CF}8 F8 F8 F8 F8 B8 A8 G8 E8 srep F4 F8 C8 B4 A4 G4 G8 G8 B4 A8 G8 F4 F8 A8 G8 A8 G8 F4 F8 A8 G8 A8 G8 A8 erep
second line: Z2 B8 A8 G8 E8 srep F4 F8 C8 B4 A4 {GF}4 G8 G8 B4 A8 G8 F4 F8 A8 G8 A8 G8 F4 F8 A8 G8 A8 G8 A8 erep A8 A8 A8 A8 C8 C8 C8 C8 B8 B8 B8 B8 E8 E8 E8 E8

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I won't give away hints for this puzzle because I think this is one of the best I created and I want to see if you can solve it without any external help.
In this section I'm just confirming the (true) things that have already been discovered by other solvers in the answers and comments.

Bass · Accepted Answer

I have another idea, which doesn't fit all that well with the earlier one, so here's another answer:
The song is the

with the two lines of music swapped, so we have

On the first line of music, there's a C (sharp) note that doesn't belong to the melody. We interpret that to mean that

Similarly, on the second line, there's an extra F (sharp), but this time it's a quarter note, which is twice as long as the eighth note earlier:

And finally, the key signature at the beginning of each line has a D#, which doesn't belong in F# minor, so

which finally brings us to an item that would, by its nature, likely be missing from an inheritance even though it should be included:

Tod Jordan · Answer

ah. I think the image on my phone was distorted in a couple ways. for example, I couldn't see the "F line"? if that is what they call it... So I thought that the A,G#,A,G#,A in the 5th and 6th measures were High Cs...

Answered by Tod Jordan on September 4, 2021

happystar · Answer

PARTIAL ANSWER ONLY:

REVISED ANSWER:

If that's the answer then congrats to OP for a fantastic puzzle.
@Bass probably should deserve most of the +100 credit for identifying the score for Coffin Dance. In any case I will happily give back any credit if a neurosurgeon can get that rot13(shpxvat) song out of my head!

kristinalustig · Answer

New answer:
The inheritance is missing:

Here's why:

Once you've done that:

Bass · Answer

Did she accidentally leave

for her flat?
Or did someone maybe

Either reason would account for

(Probably not the correct answer, since neither reason quite explains the two extra notes in the music, nor why the first and second lines have been swapped. But with the chance to put all those music puns into an answer, it's not like that's going to stop me from posting this.)

What is missing from my aunt's inheritance?

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