Certain artists' music mysteriously deleted from Macbook

Please help, and don't just tell me to Google it, because I did and I couldn't find anything helpful.
So, I don't listen to my iTunes library that much. It's probably been a few months, so I can't be entirely sure when this happened. But I just tried to play some music in iTunes and I discovered that iTunes was unable to locate some of my music. Specifically, it seems that three artists' music has been deleted from my computer. I searched in Finder for them, and they are not there at all. All of the songs by these three artists (and nothing else) have entirely disappeared. I absolutely did not delete them, because I love these three artists, and I know that they were once present on this computer because I've listened to them in iTunes on this computer before.
Some details: I'm using a Macbook Pro from 2011. I just upgraded to Mountain Lion (and this is the first time I've tried listening to iTunes since upgrading). I have an iPhone 4 on which I have most of my music (including the three missing artists, and I checked, and they play fine on the iPhone). Some of the missing music came directly from a CD, though I think most came from my external hard drive (transferred from my old computer). I don't think any of the music was bought through iTunes, so I can't get it back that way. I know that I can get it back from my hard drive or my iPhone, but I just want to know what happened. Why did exactly three artists get entirely deleted from my computer? I added pretty much all my music at the same time (except for that one CD of music, which was added later and is also missing), even stuff that isn't missing. I doubt that it was a problem with syncing to the iPhone, because most of the music I have is still present on both devices, and anyway I haven't tried to sync my iPhone music in ages.
If anyone can just tell me why this happened and how I can avoid it in the future, that's all I want. I know I can fix it, even though it might be a pain in the ***. I'm just so mad, and I want answers. If you need more info, just ask.
Thanks.

I'm not sure how this happened, but I can try to help you get your music back.
Music purchased from the iTunes Store can be downloaded again for free. (not available in all countries)
Music ripped from CDs or synced through iTunes have to be synced through iTunes again.

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