HT1751 Is there any way to transfer my music to an External Hard Drive and have the music disappear from the library until I plug in the Hard Drive?

I have an old External Hard Drive that stores all my music from years ago.  I was wondering if it was possible to have the music only appear in the Itunes library when the External Hard Drive was plugged in.  So when it is not I just have the music I have added recently, not the thousands of songs from the late 90's.  I do not always keep my External plugged in and when it is not all the thousands of songs come up with the and is slightly annoying. Someone I knew in the past had the Itunes set up this way but did not know how it was done. Any help would be appreciated!

Sync Your iOS Device with a New Computer Without Losing Data
http://www.howtogeek.com/104298/sync-your-ios-device-with-a-new-computer-without -losing-data/
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive
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