Canon Explained
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
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
- Canon, Georgia, United States
- Canons Park, London, United Kingdom
- 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
- : 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
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