Canon

Not to be confused with Cannon or Cañon.

Canon or Canons may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Canon (fiction), the conceptual material in a fictional universe, accepted as officially part of the story
• 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

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 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

• Canon, Georgia, a city in the United States
• Canons Park, London, UK
• Canon Row, a street in Westminster, London
• Cañon City, Colorado, United States
• Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
• Canon Rock, an island in Northern Ireland

Religion

• Religious text: 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

• Canon (basic principle), an accepted body of rules
• Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
• The Canon of Medicine, a 1025 CE medical encyclopedia by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
• Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club based in the capital city of Yaoundé
• Canons High School, Edgware, Greater London

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)