Not all music recognized in Library

I recently copied about 1500 songs from one drive to a drive that is designated as my iTunes Library. The songs that were already on the "Library" drive appear in my ITunes Library, but the added songs do not. How do I get the Library to refresh and recognize them?
Thanks!

see my answer to chewy_the hero, posted below yours. You may need to recreate your library like I did for my daughter. If you don't want to recreate the whole library, you could just add the new folder to your library (File-Add Folder). If there are duplicates they will be listed twice each mapped to a different location.

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