How do you take your existing iTunes Library and move it to an External Drive?

I'm at my capacity of Storage Space on my iMac w/ the majority of memory being used via iTunes. Is there a way to move my existing Library to my external Hard Drive and still look/run the same as if on my computer? How can new loaded music/movies/etc. be loaded to that same library on the external drive? Will I need to do something different in my normal Time Capsule Backup since the Library no longer resides on my computer's Hard Drive? Many thanks for the help?

HD2600 Hater wrote:
I copied the entire iTunes Folder within [myusername > Music] to my new external drive.
at this point, you need to launch iTunes while holding the option (⌥) key, click on choose library when prompted, and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
I then went to 'Advanced' in iTunes Preferences and pointed the new folder location to the copied iTunes folder on the external drive.
this only tells iTunes where to put new additions to your library, not where the current content is.

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