Eli5 what a “bar” means in music?

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I was notified of a local theater production hosting a staged reading and I wanted to audition. The auditions aren’t for another few weeks, but as part of the audition, I need to sing 32 bars of a modern musical song and then give a conflicting one minute monologue. I can handle the monologue, but what the hell is a bar?

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These explanations are so funny because I feel like none of them are actually helpful 😂😂 people that understand music have no idea how little other people understand. Like is the length of a bar or measure standardized to where it’s some ratio of notes happening within some standard amount of time? Or is a 6/8 twice as long as a 3/4? Or do those take place in the same interval of time but with shorter notes?

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