Can I have 2 versions of iTunes?

Wondering if this is possible:
I currently am running the latest version of iTunes on the latest OS X on a MacBook Pro. I have none of my music on my computer, it's all on an external hard drive. I keep it plugged in all the time pretty much. iTunes knows the path to find the music in the hard drive and it has worked for me since I started doing this method. (My very large music library is the reason why I have the external.)
I have a large collection of Soundtracks that I want to keep separate from the rest of my library. So I have them on a different external hard drive. I want to have a 2nd copy of iTunes that only has the Soundtrack stuff in it, but still keep the actual files on the external. Can I do this? Or can you only have one copy of iTunes on your computer?
Thanx.

Charlie,
Thanks for getting back to me. I just did what you told me to, and it worked. However, now I have another problem.
So I started the 2nd Library with the "Soundtracks only" external hard drive attached. It all worked great. I closed iTunes, and ejected the external. I plugged in my other external hard drive (the one with my original library of music on it) and opened iTunes. Upon opening iTunes, it gave me the same dialog box as it did when I created the 2nd library. This time, instead of creating a new one, I clicked "find existing library." I chose the iTunes library on my original external. What iTunes did is nothing short of amazing. For whatever reason, my iTunes has reverted back to about 15 months ago. Old playlists, song information for songs that no longer exist, stuff that I put in yesterday isn't there. It is literally a copy of an iTunes from 15 months ago. All my music is still on my external so I haven't lost anything, but what the **** happened?
-e.

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