Newbie Question On Library Creation and File Duplication

I'm new to iTune's hard drive file organizing structure, so bare with me.
I have a single directory on Hard Drive 2 (HD2) called "Music". When I create a music library in iTunes from that music directory source, iTunes appears to create its own new directory in "Macintosh HD/Users/iTunes/Music" (HD1) and thus I now have duplicate directories of music on two different hard drives, HD1 and HD2. Add Time Machine to this mix (which backs up both drives) and I now have four directories with duplicate music. Nice.
Okay. So, assuming this is the case (and please correct me if I am wrong), then my question is, once I create a Library via iTunes program, can I now delete my original HD2/Music directory of files since iTunes is referencing its newly created directory in HD1? Or, is there some sort of association still going on and I must live with the duplicate directories and subsequent quadrupled directories? (Which I know I can selectively exclude some stuff from Time Machine, but it is easier to back up everything.)
Thank you in advance for your input and advise.

Yes once music has been added to iTunes you can remove it from its original location with way you have iTunes set up at the moment.
On the other hand you could change the iTunes preferences so that it does not copy files into the iTunes library, instead it leaves the files were there where and points to them.

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