Help! I accidentally deleted a whole genre of songs

Hi there,
I was listined to my Jazz genre in iTunes 11.0.2, and then accidently pressed down some random keys on my keyboard (upper left corner, so including the delete ket - i'm guessing?) and next thing i know, all my "jazz music is gone! this is hundred's of albums that were purchase and uploaded by me into my library! I've searched for the artists names in my library and they are not there - are the missing forever? I am using iTunes Match. Is there any way to recover them? And is there any way to see what i lost? I have not idea, b/c i was listening to a genre and i don't know what was in that collection. But even the category "jazz" is missing from the Genre's in Itunes!
I did strop and reload my itunes. And i did check my trash.. but they are not there. Please help!
<3 Cindy

To anyone who might be reading this thread, after some fiddleing I was able to solve the problem:
Here's the steps i did:
1. I created a new itunes library on my external drive, then the songs sorted by genre, then i knew which songs were missing. I wrote down the names of those albums
2. I then closed itunes, and disconnected my external drive.
3. Then, with my external drive disconnected, I reopened itunes, to my old library (the one connected to itunes match, where the song were missing)
3. Then I reconnected my external drive, and dragged the missing albums into the itunes library that had itunes match.
Problem fixed,
Thanks,
Cindy

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