Deleting music on iOS 7 with a non-synced iPad

I have the following setup:
1) iPad 2 running iOS 7
2) iMac running OS X Mavericks
My problem: I have lots of music stored on my iPad taking up a lot of space that I want to delete, as I now use iTunes Match. The difficulty I face is that if I want to delete the music albums from my iPad, I cannot but instead have to go through every single track - a task that would take a VERY long time.
My next thought was to connect my iPad to iTunes on my iMac and delete the music on my iPad from there. The problem is that my iTunes library corrupted a while ago and I had to rebuild from scratch, so this current iPad is not synced to this iTunes library. If I then choose the option under Devices -> iPad -> Music, select 'Sync Music' and choose no music listings, I'm told that this will replace the entire contents of my iPad. All I want to do is delete the music; if I delete ALL the content, then there are many files on my iPad that I need to keep on there in other applications, from Pages to iAnnotate to Notes, etc. Again, it would take me a LONG time to move all this content off my device.
Any suggestions on a good solution here?

Hi there Will_Ldn,
You may find the information in the article below helpful.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
-Griff W.

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