HT5621 Moving Music from old apple ID/email to new Apple ID/email??

I had an old Apple ID with an old email address where I had some music stored.  Since then I purchased an IPhone and created a new email address which is my Apple ID.  I would like to move all of the music I had on the original email/apple to the new one.  When I have tried to make the changes, it says that the email account is already being used.  Is there a way to move the music I had stored in my old account to my new account?  I am pretty computer illiterate so detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated.

You cannot transfer purchases from one Apple ID to another.

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