Only Want Manually Added Music On My iPhone

When in iTunes my On This Phone lists the music I manually loaded, but the music library that is on my iPhone5 only has the music I've purchased on it.  Somehow this happened recently without me changing any settings, as far as I know.  How do I reset to only have the music I manually added to the phone?
Thank you

On the phone, go to Settings/iTunes & App store, and turn off the Show All and Automatic downloads switches.
Then connect the phone to iTunes, click on its icon, check Manually manage music and videos on the Summary screen and click Apply.

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