Canon

Canon or Canons may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author
  • Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture
    • Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West
  • Canon of proportions, a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art
  • Canon (music), a type of composition
  • Canon (hymnography), a type of hymn used in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
  • Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco
  • Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
  • Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
  • Canon (manga), by Nikki
  • Canonical plays of William Shakespeare
  • The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier
  • The Canon (podcast), concerning film
  • The Cannons, an indie band

Brands and enterprises

  • Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
  • Château Canon (disambiguation), a number of wineries
  • UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

People

  • Canon (rapper) (born Aaron McCain, 1989)
  • Fernando Canon (1860–1938), Filipino revolutionary general, poet, inventor, engineer, musician and chess player
  • Lou Canon, stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter

Places

Religion

  • Religious text#Authority of religious texts: some religious texts are accepted or categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical
    • Biblical canon, a set of texts regarded by a Christian or Jewish community as part of the Bible
  • Canon law, the whole judicial system in Christian churches
    • Canon (canon law), a law or ordinance promulgated by a synod, ecumenical council, or individual bishop (within the canon law system of that Church).
  • Canon (clergy), a title of certain Christian priests
  • Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
  • Pāli Canon, scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism (these include the Sutta Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka)

Other uses

See also

  • Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
  • Cannon (disambiguation)
  • Canonical, standard or referential form; includes many examples of canons
  • Canonization, the act of a pope's declaring a deceased person a saint
  • Canyon (disambiguation)
  • Kanon (disambiguation)
  • Kanoon (disambiguation)
  • Qanun (disambiguation)
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