The Vocalises (Latvian: Vokalīzes; Russian: Вокализы, romanized: Vokalizy) are a set of fourteen pieces for SATB chorus a capella by Jānis Ivanovs.

Individual Vocalises were performed by choirs in Ivanovs' native Latvian SSR, as well as elsewhere in the Soviet Union, where they were received positively.

[1] It was during one of these times that the first of what became the cycle of Vocalises emerged in 1964: "Rudens dziesma" (Autumn Song), a simple work in four-part harmony for SATB chorus a capella.

He learned the choral music of Dmitri Bortnyansky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff first hand, and drew upon these experiences when composing his Vocalises.

Imants Kokars, a Latvian choral conductor who founded the Ave Sol Chamber Choir [lv] in 1969, took note of the works, and encouraged the composer to fashion these and subsequent ones into an integral cycle.

[6] Individual movements from the Vocalises had been performed by choirs in Latvia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, where they were received positively and became incorporated into the choral repertoire.

[1] Mārtiņš Boiko said of the works:[2] The concept of a "feeling for nature" finds its fullest and purest expression in the vocalise genre so characteristic of Jānis Ivanovs.