Some Songs No Longer Recognized in My iTunes Library

I am running Windows 7 and the latest version of iTunes.  For the third time in about a year, iTunes has just "dropped" a number of my songs; 45 this time.  I have no idea which ones.  I realize that the actual songs are in another folder, but how can I 1) find out which songs have stopped  being recognized and/or restablish the iTunes library to a point when all songs were recognized?  My songs were both purchased from the Apple Store and imported from my CD collection.  This is very frustrating and ANY help would be very much appreciated.  And, PLEASE keep it simple as I am NOT a technical person.  Many thanks!!

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